API and Webhooks

Rate Limits

The API is rate-limited in order to prevent abuse and protect our origins from attack. Rate limiting is performed on a per-IP basis.

Exceeding the following rate limits will result in a temporary block, during which the service will respond with HTTP 429 Too Many Requests. The block will lift automatically after 1 minute.

GET requests

These types of requests are limited to 300 requests per 1 minute, per IP.

POST / PUT / PATCH / DELETE requests

These types of requests are limited to 120 requests per 1 minute, per IP.

Hard Limits

If you send more than 250 requests within 10 seconds, your IP may become blocked and require manual intervention by Vanilla Support in order to remove the block.

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