generated: '2026-09-19'
method: searched
source: https://quote-api.smklog.com/openapi.json
sources:
- https://quote-api.smklog.com/openapi.json (info.description, 429 responses)
- https://quote-api.smklog.com/mcp (tools/list — get_parcel_quote and get_checkout_status "Allowance" lines)
- https://smklog.com/api ("Rate limits are real")
- https://smklog.com/auth.md
provider: SMKlog
providerId: smklog-com
limit_count: 2
description: >-
  Two published per-client hourly buckets, both stated in the provider's own contract text: about 80 quote calls an
  hour shared between POST /quote, the MCP get_parcel_quote tool, the A2A skill and (when it prices live)
  createPaymentSession / create_checkout_link; and 60 checkout-status reads an hour. track_parcel and
  get_price_index spend no quote allowance. Exhaustion answers HTTP 429 rate_limited. No rate-limit response
  headers are documented, and none were observed on the live 400/404 responses. Manually issued OAuth
  client_credentials move an agent to "its own hourly bucket at its own size" (auth.md) — the size is not published.
limits:
- id: quote-bucket
  scope: per-client
  window: 1 hour
  limit: 80
  limit_note: '"about 80 quote requests per hour" (OpenAPI info.description); "Allowance: 80 calls an hour per client, shared with the public /quote route" (get_parcel_quote tool)'
  applies_to: [getParcelQuote, 'MCP get_parcel_quote', 'A2A get_parcel_quote', 'createPaymentSession / create_checkout_link when no valid quote_id is supplied']
  burst: not published
  exhaustion_status: 429
  exhaustion_code: rate_limited
  docs: https://smklog.com/api
- id: checkout-status-bucket
  scope: per-client
  window: 1 hour
  limit: 60
  limit_note: '"429 rate_limited — 60 checks an hour per client" (OpenAPI getCheckoutStatus); "Allowance: 60 checks an hour per client" (get_checkout_status tool)'
  applies_to: [getCheckoutStatus, 'MCP get_checkout_status']
  burst: not published
  exhaustion_status: 429
  exhaustion_code: rate_limited
  docs: https://quote-api.smklog.com/openapi.json
exempt:
- {surface: 'MCP track_parcel', note: '"neither quotes nor spends quote allowance"'}
- {surface: 'MCP get_price_index', note: '"reading it spends no quote allowance"'}
- {surface: 'GET /status', note: liveness probe; cache-control public max-age=3600 observed}
headers:
  rate_limit: null            # no X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit-* documented or observed
  retry_after: null           # not documented or observed
  observed_on_error: 'POST /quote 400 -> cache-control no-store, access-control-allow-origin https://smklog.com; no rate-limit family (2026-09-19)'
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
higher_tier:
  mechanism: OAuth 2.0 client_credentials bearer (scope quote) on POST /quote
  registration: manual, mailto:info@smklog.com
  size: not published
  detail: authentication/smklog-com-authentication.yml
guidance:
- '"Hourly, per client, and shared between /quote and /mcp, so switching protocol does not add capacity. Every quote hits live carrier rating and costs us money: one call per shipment, cache on your side, never poll." — smklog.com/api'
- 'Reuse quote_id (15 minutes) in create_checkout_link "so the pair costs one carrier call rather than two".'
- 'Poll get_checkout_status "minutes apart rather than seconds".'