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: Whatnot
providerId: whatnot
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: false
tags:
- Marketplace
- Live Commerce
- Collectibles
- Resale
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Whatnot does not publish API rate limits publicly. Partner-specific quotas are governed by
  partnership agreements.
notes: Honor 429 and Retry-After.
sources:
- https://www.whatnot.com/sellers
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default Partner
  scope: partner
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Per partner agreement.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com