specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Samsung
providerId: samsung
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Consumer Electronics
- Devices
- IoT
- Mobile
- Samsung
- SmartThings
- Rate Limiting
description: Rate-limits artifact for Samsung. Trimmed to a single umbrella entry pending manual reconciliation.
  Samsung exposes developer programs (SmartThings, Bixby, Tizen, Knox) through device partner agreements.
  Public API usage is generally free but partner-onboarded; commercial terms are negotiated through Samsung's
  developer relations team and not published as public price sheets.
sources:
- https://developer.samsung.com/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Per-program rate limit
  scope: client
  metric: varies
  limit: varies per Samsung developer program (SmartThings, Bixby, Knox, Tizen)
  notes: Samsung does not publish a single rate-limit policy; each developer program maintains its own
    limits, typically requiring partner sign-in to view.
policies:
- name: Program-Specific Limits
  description: Samsung's developer programs each define their own throttling and quotas, documented behind
    the developer portal sign-in.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Honor Retry-After when present and apply exponential backoff with jitter.
notes: Samsung exposes developer programs (SmartThings, Bixby, Tizen, Knox) through device partner agreements.
  Public API usage is generally free but partner-onboarded; commercial terms are negotiated through Samsung's
  developer relations team and not published as public price sheets.