Front · Rate Limits

Front Rate Limits

Front enforces per-company per-minute rate limits scaled by plan tier with a separate bucket for partner OAuth integrations. Burst capacity of half the plan limit is available with a 10-minute replenishment window. Some resource-intensive endpoints have a tighter per-second per-resource limit.

7 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Starter Plan company
requests
50
Per-company rpm limit on Starter.
Professional Plan company
requests
100
Per-company rpm limit on Professional.
Enterprise Plan company
requests
200
Per-company rpm limit on Enterprise.
Partner OAuth company
requests
120
Separate bucket of 120 rpm per company for partner integrations using OAuth — does not count against the standard plan limit (Zapier excluded).
Burst Capacity company
requests
Additional burst equal to half the plan rate limit; if the burst bucket is exhausted, replenishment takes 10 minutes.
Resource-Intensive Endpoints resource
requests
1-5
Certain resource-intensive endpoints have a tighter 1-5 rps per resource limit on top of the company limit.
Rate Limit Increase Add-On company
requests
$200/month buys an additional +100 rpm; can be stacked.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 Retry-After (in milliseconds). Implement exponential backoff with jitter.
Header Telemetry
Track x-ratelimit-limit / x-ratelimit-remaining / x-ratelimit-reset and slow down proactively as remaining drops.
Partner OAuth
Use OAuth instead of API tokens to access the separate 120 rpm partner-integration bucket.

Sources