generated: '2026-10-07'
method: searched
name: Commune API rate limits
source: https://usecommune.dev/errors/rate_limited.md
description: 'Per-credential budgets (never per IP address): general, audience and write, plus two daily send caps
  that are not RateLimit-Policy budgets.'
headers:
- RateLimit-Limit
- RateLimit-Remaining
- RateLimit-Reset
- RateLimit-Policy
- Retry-After
exhaustion_status: 429
error_code: rate_limited
state_endpoint: GET /rate-limit (getRateLimit)
limit_count: 5
limits:
- name: general
  limit_text: by default 600 requests per 60 seconds
  max: 600
  window: 60 seconds
  scope: per credential
  kind: budget
- name: audience
  limit_text: by default 60 per 60 seconds
  max: 60
  window: 60 seconds
  scope: per credential
  kind: budget
  endpoint: GET /newsletters/{newsletter}/subscribers, GET /subscribers/{subscriber}, GET /newsletters/{newsletter}/insights,
    GET /newsletters/{newsletter}/events
- name: write
  limit_text: by default 60 per 60 seconds
  max: 60
  window: 60 seconds
  scope: per credential
  kind: budget
  endpoint: every POST, PATCH and DELETE
- name: daily sends to a list
  limit_text: 25 dispatches per newsletter per day
  max: 25
  window: 1 day
  scope: per newsletter, across every credential
  kind: daily cap
  endpoint: POST /articles/{article}/send, POST /articles/{article}/schedule
  note: Retry-After is measured in hours rather than seconds
- name: daily test sends
  limit_text: 50 per credential per day
  max: 50
  window: 1 day
  scope: per credential
  kind: daily cap
  endpoint: POST /articles/{article}/test-send