---
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: SurrealDB
providerId: surrealdb
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - SurrealDB
description: >-
  SurrealDB does not publish explicit rate limits for its HTTP REST API in its
  public documentation as of June 2026. Native rate limiting is a tracked
  feature request (GitHub issue #2016) rather than a shipped capability. For
  SurrealDB Cloud, connection and query concurrency are governed by the compute
  tier provisioned. Operators running self-hosted deployments are advised to
  implement rate limiting at the reverse proxy layer. The standard HTTP 429
  status code is returned by the infrastructure layer when limits are exceeded.
sources:
  - https://surrealdb.com/docs/surrealdb/integration/http
  - https://github.com/surrealdb/surrealdb/issues/2016
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: SurrealDB Cloud HTTP API
    scope: key
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: minute