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: ZeroDev
providerId: zerodev
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Account Abstraction
- ERC-4337
- Paymaster
- Bundler
- JSON-RPC
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  ZeroDev meters its bundler and paymaster RPCs primarily by a per-plan Credit
  pool (consumed by UserOperations and infra calls) and by an included
  gas-sponsorship budget, rather than by published fixed per-second request
  rates. RPC throughput limits exist per project and plan and are enforced by
  the meta-infrastructure; specific per-method request-per-second values are not
  published and are not reconciled in this artifact. Sponsorship policies on the
  paymaster (per-app, per-user, per-UserOp caps) act as the primary throttle on
  gas spend.
notes: >-
  Verify per-project RPC throughput limits, Credit consumption per method, and
  paymaster sponsorship policy caps in the ZeroDev dashboard during
  reconciliation; these vary by plan (Developer / Growth / Scale / Enterprise).
sources:
- https://zerodev.app/pricing
- https://docs.zerodev.app/meta-infra/rpcs
- https://docs.zerodev.app/sdk/core-api/sponsor-gas
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Credits Per Month
  scope: project
  metric: credits
  limit: see plan (10K Developer / 100K Growth / 1M Scale / custom Enterprise)
  notes: UserOperations and infra calls draw down the plan Credit pool.
- name: Gas Sponsorship Budget
  scope: project
  metric: usd_gas
  limit: see plan (up to $250 Growth / up to $1,000 Scale / custom Enterprise)
  notes: Included gas-sponsorship allowance; further sponsored gas is billed/topped up.
- name: RPC Throughput
  scope: project
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-project bundler/paymaster RPC throughput; specific RPS values not published.
- name: Paymaster Sponsorship Policy Caps
  scope: project
  metric: sponsorships
  limit: configurable
  notes: Per-app / per-user / per-UserOp sponsorship caps configured in the dashboard.
policies:
- name: Credit-Metered Plans
  description: Each plan includes a Credit pool; overage is handled by upgrading plan or top-up.
- name: Sponsorship Gating
  description: Paymaster sponsorship is governed by configurable policies that cap which UserOps are sponsored.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429 and honor Retry-After.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com