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: Slab
providerId: slab
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Knowledge Base
- Wiki
- Documentation
- Collaboration
- GraphQL
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Slab serves a single GraphQL endpoint (https://api.slab.com/v1/graphql) for
  Business and Enterprise customers. Slab does not publish specific numeric rate
  limits in its public developer documentation; large reads are expected to use
  cursor-based pagination rather than bulk export, and clients should handle HTTP
  429 responses with backoff. Specific per-account limits are not reconciled in
  this artifact.
notes: >-
  Slab's public docs do not state explicit RPS/RPM numbers. Confirm any
  account-level or per-token limits with Slab support during reconciliation.
  Effective throughput is also bounded by what the Slab Bot user can access.
sources:
- https://help.slab.com/en/articles/6545629-developer-tools-api-webhooks
- https://studio.apollographql.com/public/Slab/variant/current/schema/reference
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: GraphQL Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No published numeric limit; throttling surfaces as HTTP 429.
- name: Search / List Pagination
  scope: account
  metric: results
  limit: cursor-based
  notes: >-
    Posts, topics, and users are returned via cursor-paginated connections
    (edges/pageInfo); there is no bulk export endpoint.
policies:
- name: Cursor Pagination
  description: >-
    Page through large result sets with first/after cursors and follow
    pageInfo.endCursor until hasNextPage is false.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: >-
    Implement exponential backoff with jitter on HTTP 429 and honor any
    Retry-After header.
- name: Bot Access Scope
  description: >-
    Responses are limited to content the Slab Bot user can access; add Slab Bot
    to private topics to make their content visible to the API.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com