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: Weaviate
providerId: weaviate
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Vector Database
description: Weaviate Cloud per-cluster throughput limits.
sources:
  - https://weaviate.io/pricing
  - https://weaviate.io/developers/wcs/quickstart
headers: {}
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: REST + GraphQL throughput
    scope: cluster
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: scales with cluster size
  - name: gRPC throughput
    scope: cluster
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: scales with cluster size
  - name: Concurrent connections
    scope: cluster
    metric: concurrent
    limit: varies
  - name: Batch import size
    scope: request
    metric: objects
    limit: 100
    timeFrame: request
    notes: Recommended; can go higher with tuning.