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: Tock
providerId: tock
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-06-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Hospitality
- Reservations
- Restaurants
- Events
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Tock API and webhook rate limits are not publicly published. API/webhook access is
  gated to Premium and Premium Unlimited plans; partners request an API key from integrate@tockhq.com.
notes: API/webhook eligibility is limited to Premium and Premium Unlimited plans. The Data Exports
  API runs on a fixed twice-daily schedule (not a per-request rate). Specific per-key request rates
  are not documented in Tock's public API FAQ.
sources:
- https://www.exploretock.com/partners
- https://tock.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/25447494175508-API-FAQ
- https://api.exploretock.com/docs/latest/reservation.html
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Data Exports API
  scope: business-group
  metric: exports
  limit: 2 per day
  notes: Twice-daily export of historical reservation and guest data; not a per-request rate.
- name: Guest Profile Ingest API
  scope: api-key
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Eligibility limited to Premium and Premium Unlimited plans.
- name: Reservation Webhook
  scope: business-group
  metric: events
  limit: event-driven
  notes: Real-time delivery of reservation updates for all locations in the business group.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com