edX · Rate Limits

Edx Rate Limits

Open edX rate limits are configurable per deployment; public edx.org API limits are not openly documented.

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Limits

Default Open edX deployment
requests
configurable per deployment
Operators set limits via Django/middleware config.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.

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