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: Testiny
providerId: testiny
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Test Runs
- Test Management
- QA
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Testiny does not publish fixed numeric request-rate limits for its REST API.
  Practical limits are governed by plan-level resource caps rather than a
  per-minute request ceiling - the Free tier caps combined test cases, plans,
  runs, and executions at 1,000, and each plan sets a storage quota (50 GB on
  Starter, 250 GB on Business, 500 GB on Enterprise) with a 100 MB per-file
  upload limit for attachments. High-volume writes should use the bulk
  endpoints (/{entity}/bulk) and the find endpoints' paging (offset/limit)
  rather than many single-item calls.
notes: >-
  No per-account or per-endpoint numeric API rate limit is documented as of the
  review date. Values here are modeled from the plan limits and upload limits on
  the pricing page; verify on https://www.testiny.io/pricing/ and the API docs
  during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://www.testiny.io/docs/
- https://www.testiny.io/docs/rest-api/
- https://www.testiny.io/pricing/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: REST API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Testiny REST API.
- name: Free-Tier Items
  scope: account
  metric: items
  limit: 1000 combined test cases, plans, runs, and executions
  notes: Free plan caps total items; paid plans lift this cap.
- name: Attachment Upload Size
  scope: request
  metric: bytes
  limit: 100 MB per file
  notes: Per-file upload limit for blob attachments across paid plans.
- name: Storage Quota
  scope: account
  metric: bytes
  limit: 50 GB (Starter) / 250 GB (Business) / 500 GB (Enterprise)
  notes: Total attachment/blob storage per plan tier.
policies:
- name: Bulk Operations
  description: Use /{entity}/bulk endpoints to create, update, or delete many entities in a single request instead of many single-item calls.
- name: Paging
  description: Use offset and limit in DataReadParams on find endpoints to page through large result sets.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on any 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com