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: Wakeo
providerId: wakeo
created: '2026-07-12'
modified: '2026-07-12'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Supply Chain
- Transportation Visibility
- Logistics
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Wakeo does not publish numeric API rate limits; the API reference is
  password-protected. The production API at https://api.wakeo.co is fronted by
  AWS API Gateway (confirmed by live probe returning HTTP 403 ForbiddenException
  without a token), so per-key throttling and burst limits are technically
  possible and likely configured, but no specific request-per-second or daily
  quota figures are documented publicly. Practical throughput is more likely
  governed by the customer's contracted shipment volume than by a published
  per-minute request cap.
notes: >-
  Numeric per-account or per-endpoint limits are not documented as of the review
  date. Confirm any throttling, burst, and quota values with Wakeo Customer
  Success or in the password-protected reference during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://docs.wakeo.co/docs/getting-started
- https://api.wakeo.co
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  forbidden: 403
limits:
- name: API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented. AWS API Gateway fronting suggests per-key throttling may apply.
- name: Tracked Shipment Volume
  scope: account
  metric: shipments
  limit: per contract
  notes: Effective usage is bounded by the customer's contracted shipment/transport-mode volume rather than a per-minute request cap.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Authentication Required
  description: Unauthenticated requests are rejected by AWS API Gateway with HTTP 403 ForbiddenException before any rate-limit accounting.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com