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: Travis CI
providerId: travis-ci
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: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Build
- Open Source
- Hosted
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Travis CI's primary throttling mechanisms are (a) the per-plan build credit
  budget (35K/mo Usage Based, unlimited on Unlimited plans, OSS allotment) and
  (b) the per-plan concurrent-job ceiling. The REST API itself returns 429
  with Retry-After when abused.
notes: >-
  Travis CI has historically not published a per-second numeric REST API rate
  limit; the dominant throttle is build-credit consumption and concurrent-job
  count, which align directly with plan tier. Public docs do call out 429.
sources:
- https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/billing-overview/
- https://www.travis-ci.com/pricing/
- https://developer.travis-ci.com/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Concurrent jobs (Usage Based)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_jobs
  limit: 80
  notes: Usage Based plan.
- name: Concurrent jobs (Unlimited)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_jobs
  limit: 300
  notes: Unlimited plan.
- name: Linux build credits (Usage Based monthly)
  scope: account
  metric: credits/month
  limit: 35000
  notes: 35K Linux build credits / month on Usage Based; 420K / year on annual.
- name: REST API requests
  scope: api_token
  metric: requests
  limit: see Travis docs
  timeFrame: window
  notes: Per-token throttle; 429 with Retry-After. Numeric ceilings not publicly enumerated.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Honor Retry-After on 429; use exponential backoff with jitter.
- name: Required Headers
  description: User-Agent, Accept (versioned), Authorization required for full access.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com