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: Xano
providerId: xano
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- No Code
- Backend as a Service
- BaaS
- API Builder
- Database
- Serverless
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Xano rate limiting is driven by subscription plan rather than per-key token
  budgets. On the Free plan the generated REST APIs are rate limited (roughly 10
  requests per 20 seconds); paid plans (Essential, Pro) advertise unlimited API
  rate limits subject to the dedicated instance capacity. The Metadata API and
  user-built endpoints can additionally have per-endpoint rate limits configured
  by the builder inside the workspace. Specific Metadata API throttle values are
  not separately published and are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify the current Free-plan request allowance and any documented Metadata API
  throttling on reconciliation; paid-plan throughput is bounded by the dedicated
  instance size, not a published per-minute number.
sources:
- https://www.xano.com/pricing/
- https://docs.xano.com/xano-features/metadata-api
- https://docs.xano.com/connecting-to-a-front-end/fundamentals
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Free Plan Generated API Limit
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 10 per 20 seconds
  notes: Applies to the generated REST APIs on the Free plan.
- name: Paid Plan Generated API Limit
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: unlimited (bounded by instance capacity)
  notes: Essential and Pro plans advertise unlimited API rate limits on dedicated infrastructure.
- name: Metadata API
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Authenticated with scoped Bearer access tokens; specific throttle values are not separately published.
- name: Per-Endpoint Rate Limit
  scope: endpoint
  metric: requests
  limit: configurable
  notes: Builders can configure rate limits on individual user-built endpoints inside the workspace.
policies:
- name: Plan-Tiered Limits
  description: Rate limits relax moving from Free to Essential/Pro and are bounded by the dedicated instance capacity.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com