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: Tekion
providerId: tekion
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-07-10'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Automotive
- Dealership
- Partner API
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Gated
description: >-
  Tekion does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for the Automotive Partner
  Cloud (APC) APIs on its public pages. Tekion states that rate limits are
  tier-based - Standard partners get "standard rate limits" while Enterprise
  partners get "higher rate limits" as part of expanded functionality. Exact
  per-minute / per-day request caps, quotas, and throttling thresholds are
  documented inside the gated partner API documentation dashboard and set by the
  negotiated partner tier. No confirmed numeric limits are available here.
notes: >-
  Numeric per-partner or per-endpoint limits are not published as of the review
  date. Verify the applicable caps for your tier inside the APC documentation
  dashboard after approval, or with Tekion partner enablement
  (APCintegrations@tekion.com).
sources:
- https://tekion.com/products/apc
- https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/home
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Standard Tier Rate Limit
  scope: partner
  metric: requests
  limit: standard (tier-based, not published numerically)
  notes: Standard partners receive standard rate limits; exact numeric cap is documented in the gated dashboard.
- name: Enterprise Tier Rate Limit
  scope: partner
  metric: requests
  limit: higher (tier-based, not published numerically)
  notes: Enterprise partners receive higher rate limits as part of expanded functionality.
- name: Webhook Delivery
  scope: partner
  metric: events
  limit: not published
  notes: Webhook event delivery is governed by partner configuration and Tekion's delivery infrastructure; no public numeric limit.
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Rate limits scale with the partner tier (Standard vs Enterprise vs Strategic) rather than a single global cap.
- name: Dealer Authorization
  description: Access to a given dealer's data is gated by that dealer's authorizations in the APC Integration Hub, independent of raw request-rate limits.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com