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Ford Rate Limits

Ford's Developer Marketplace does not publish numeric API rate limits. Throttles are sized per partner agreement and per-vehicle data-fetch policies (e.g. minimum poll intervals on telemetry endpoints to protect vehicle modems and battery). Standard 429/503 conventions are expected.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Per-partner API throttle partner/api-key
varies
per-partner agreement; not publicly published
Per-vehicle telemetry poll minimum vehicle
minimum_poll_interval
enforced per endpoint to protect TCU/modem; not publicly published

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429/5xx and honor Retry-After when present.
Vehicle-Touch Throttling
Endpoints that wake or query the vehicle TCU enforce minimum poll intervals to protect 12V battery and modem; subscribe to webhooks/streaming where available rather than polling.
Customer Consent
Per-VIN access is gated by the vehicle owner's consent on FordPass; revoked consent terminates throttling allocation immediately.

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