---
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: Xata
providerId: xata
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Database
  - Postgres
description: Xata Management API enforces per-key rate limits; the SQL Gateway throughput scales with the compute instance size of each database branch.
sources:
  - https://xata.io/docs/overview
  - https://api.xata.tech/openapi.json
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Management API
    scope: key
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 60
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: SQL Gateway
    scope: key
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 1000
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Bulk API Key Deletion
    scope: key
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 60
    timeFrame: minute