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: Streamkap
providerId: streamkap
created: '2026-07-01'
modified: '2026-07-01'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Streaming
- ETL
- CDC
- Kafka
- Flink
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Streamkap management REST API is a control-plane API for provisioning
  and operating sources, destinations, pipelines, and transforms; it is not the
  data path. Streamkap does not publish fixed public per-endpoint request-rate
  numbers for the management API. The practical "limits" that govern Streamkap
  usage are the plan-level data-volume allocations (GB/month) and transform
  compute (vCPU) rather than API requests per second. Access tokens are
  short-lived JWTs that must be refreshed, which bounds long-running automation.
notes: >-
  Confirm any specific management-API request-rate limits and token TTLs in the
  Streamkap API reference during reconciliation. Data throughput is governed by
  plan volume allocations, not by API request rate.
sources:
- https://docs.streamkap.com/api-reference/authentication
- https://streamkap.com/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Management API Requests
  scope: tenant
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: >-
    Control-plane request-rate limits are not published as fixed public values;
    reasonable-use limits may apply per tenant.
- name: Access Token Lifetime
  scope: credential
  metric: seconds
  limit: expiresIn on token response
  notes: >-
    Access tokens expire (expiresIn is returned on the token response) and must
    be refreshed via /authentication/refresh-access-token.
- name: Data Volume
  scope: account
  metric: gigabytes
  limit: per plan allocation
  notes: >-
    Free 500 MB/month; Starter caps at 30 GB/month; Scale includes 150 GB/month;
    Enterprise unlimited. Overage billed per GB.
- name: Transform Compute
  scope: account
  metric: vcpu
  limit: per plan allocation
  notes: >-
    Free tier includes 24 hours/month shared compute; paid plans bill Streaming
    Agents at $250 per vCPU/month.
policies:
- name: Token Refresh
  description: >-
    Clients should refresh the short-lived JWT before expiry rather than
    re-authenticating on every call.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: >-
    Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor
    Retry-After on any 429 response from the management API.
- name: Plan-Based Capacity
  description: >-
    Effective throughput is governed by plan data-volume and transform-compute
    allocations; raise capacity by upgrading the plan or contacting sales.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com