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: WorkMotion
providerId: workmotion
created: '2026-07-01'
modified: '2026-07-01'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Employer of Record
- EOR
- Global Employment
- HR
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  WorkMotion's partner / Open API is access-gated and its published reference
  does not expose specific numeric rate-limit values on the open web.
  Consistent with SaaS partner APIs of this kind, expect per-credential
  request throttling, standard 429 responses on exceeding limits, and
  cursor / page-based pagination on list endpoints to bound response size.
  Specific per-endpoint limits are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  No public numeric rate limits are documented. The values below are modeled
  as the common shape for a partner HR API; confirm exact RPM / RPS, burst,
  and pagination caps against WorkMotion partner documentation during
  reconciliation.
sources:
- https://workmotion.com/integrations/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Minute (per credential)
  scope: credential
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Modeled; per-partner-credential throttling assumed, exact value not published.
- name: List Pagination
  scope: endpoint
  metric: records
  limit: '200'
  notes: Modeled default page size cap of 200 records on list endpoints.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Pagination
  description: Use page / pageSize parameters to page through large collections rather than requesting unbounded lists.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com