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: Sieve
providerId: sieve
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Video
- Audio
- Media Processing
- Async Jobs
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Sieve throttles primarily by concurrency rather than per-minute request
  counts. Jobs are submitted asynchronously to the Push endpoint and queued;
  the number of jobs that run in parallel is bounded by the account's concurrent
  request limit (up to 3 on the Starter plan, custom on Production). Excess jobs
  queue rather than fail. Specific HTTP rate limits on the management endpoints
  are not separately reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify concurrency limits and any per-endpoint request limits in the Sieve
  dashboard and documentation on reconciliation; limits raise from Starter to
  Production via agreement.
sources:
- https://www.sievedata.com/pricing
- https://docs.sievedata.com
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Concurrent Requests (Starter)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_requests
  limit: 3
  notes: Up to 3 jobs run in parallel on the Starter plan; additional jobs queue.
- name: Concurrent Requests (Production)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_requests
  limit: custom
  notes: Custom concurrency negotiated on the Production plan.
- name: Job Queue
  scope: account
  metric: jobs
  limit: queued
  notes: Jobs submitted above the concurrency limit are queued and processed as capacity frees up, rather than being rejected.
policies:
- name: Concurrency-Based Throttling
  description: Throughput is governed by concurrent request limits per plan; raise concurrency by upgrading to Production.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses and honor Retry-After.
- name: Asynchronous Submission
  description: Push jobs and poll Get Job or use webhooks rather than blocking on synchronous responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com