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: Weave
providerId: weave-hq
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Communication
- Healthcare
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Weave does not publicly publish fixed numeric rate limits for its developer API
  (api.weaveconnect.com); the authoritative reference is gated behind a developer
  login in the Weave Developer Portal (dp.getweave.com). API access is scoped to a
  location subscription, and practical throughput is governed more by product-level
  allowances than by a documented per-second request cap. The most concrete published
  quota is on outbound bulk (mass) texting: the Messaging API exposes a
  bulk-message-quota endpoint, indicating that mass-text volume is metered per
  account/location. Telephony and SMS throughput are additionally bounded by
  underlying carrier and 10DLC messaging regulations. Numeric per-endpoint limits
  below are marked as not published and should be reconciled once portal access is
  available.
notes: >-
  Clients should treat HTTP 429 as a throttling signal, honor any Retry-After
  header, and back off exponentially with jitter. Bulk/mass texting is explicitly
  quota-limited via the /v1/account/bulk-message-quota endpoint. Verify concrete
  numeric limits in the authenticated Weave Developer Portal.
sources:
- https://dp.getweave.com
- https://www.getweave.com/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: API Requests
  scope: location
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No fixed numeric per-second/per-minute request rate is documented publicly; reference is login-gated.
- name: Bulk Message Quota
  scope: account
  metric: messages
  limit: per plan (queryable)
  notes: Mass/bulk texting is metered; remaining quota is returned by GET /v1/account/bulk-message-quota.
- name: SMS Throughput
  scope: phone_number
  metric: messages
  limit: carrier / 10DLC bound
  notes: Outbound SMS is constrained by carrier and 10DLC campaign throughput rules, not solely by Weave.
- name: Event Subscriptions
  scope: location
  metric: subscriptions
  limit: not published
  notes: Subscription counts per client/location are not documented publicly.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: On HTTP 429, honor Retry-After and retry with exponential backoff plus jitter.
- name: Bulk Messaging Governance
  description: Check remaining bulk-message quota before sending mass texts, and respect opt-out/consent and 10DLC requirements.
- name: Location Scoping
  description: Requests are scoped to a single Weave location; distribute load across locations rather than exceeding a single location's allowances.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com