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: Softr
providerId: softr
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: true
tags:
- No Code
- App Builder
- Database
- User Management
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Softr Database API enforces per-token rate limits: read operations (GET
  and POST /search) are limited to 40 requests/second and write operations
  (POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE) to 30 requests/second. Exceeding a limit returns
  HTTP 429. Published-app subscription allowances (app users, Softr Database
  records, AI credits, Workflow actions) act as plan-level quotas. Per-second
  limits for the Users Management API are not separately documented.
notes: >-
  Database API per-second limits are documented; Users Management API
  throttling is not published. Plan quotas (records, app users, AI credits,
  Workflow actions) are enforced at the subscription level - see the Plans
  artifact.
sources:
- https://docs.softr.io/softr-api/softr-database-api/rate-limiting/index.md
- https://docs.softr.io/softr-api/api-setup-and-endpoints
- https://www.softr.io/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Database API Reads
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: 40 per second
  notes: Applies to GET requests and POST /search on the Softr Database API.
- name: Database API Writes
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: 30 per second
  notes: Applies to POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE on the Softr Database API.
- name: Users Management API
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No per-second rate limit is separately documented for studio-api.softr.io.
- name: Softr Database Records
  scope: account
  metric: records
  limit: plan-dependent (5,000 Free to 1,000,000 Business)
  notes: Subscription-level quota on stored records; varies by plan.
- name: App Users
  scope: account
  metric: users
  limit: plan-dependent (10 Free to 500 Business)
  notes: Subscription-level quota on published-app end users; varies by plan.
- name: Workflow Actions
  scope: account
  metric: actions
  limit: plan-dependent (500 Free to 25,000 Business per month)
  notes: Monthly subscription-level quota on Workflow automation actions.
policies:
- name: Tiered Quotas
  description: Record, app-user, AI-credit, and Workflow-action allowances rise with the subscription plan and are custom on Enterprise.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: On HTTP 429 the Softr Database API recommends implementing backoff logic and retrying after a brief pause.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com