specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: StrongDM
providerId: strongdm
generated: '2026-07-21'
created: '2026-07-21'
modified: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
source: https://docs.strongdm.com/ (API rate limits)
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Privileged Access Management
description: >-
  StrongDM Admin API rate limits, enforced per user and per organization on a
  per-minute basis, separately for read and write operations. Requests that
  exceed a limit fail; the SDKs can automatically pause and retry.
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Read requests (per user)
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 5000
  timeFrame: minute
- name: Write requests (per user)
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 500
  timeFrame: minute
- name: Read requests (per organization)
  scope: organization
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 50000
  timeFrame: minute
- name: Write requests (per organization)
  scope: organization
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 5000
  timeFrame: minute
notes: >-
  Limits captured from StrongDM's API documentation. SDKs implement automatic
  backoff/retry when a limit is hit.