Looker · Rate Limits
Looker Rate Limits
Looker (Google Cloud) enforces monthly API call quotas that scale with edition (Standard / Enterprise / Embed). Quotas are split between query-based API calls and administrative API calls. Per-second throttling is governed by the Looker (Google Cloud core) API service quotas via Google Cloud Quotas; raise via support.
8 Limits
Throttle: 429
Quota: 429
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Limits
Query-based API calls (Standard) account
1000
Administrative API calls (Standard) account
1000
Query-based API calls (Enterprise) account
100000
Administrative API calls (Enterprise) account
10000
Query-based API calls (Embed) account
500000
Administrative API calls (Embed) account
100000
Conversational Analytics input tokens (per Developer User) user
4000000
Conversational Analytics output tokens (per Developer User) user
80000
Policies
Edition-scoped quotas
API call quotas are split between query-based and administrative APIs and scale by edition.
Per-user token quotas
Conversational Analytics tokens are quota'd per user role; overage applies after Oct 1 2026.
Cloud quota
For the Looker (Google Cloud core) API, additional per-second/per-region throttling is governed by Google Cloud quotas; request increases via the Cloud Quotas page.
Backoff
On 429, retry with exponential backoff and respect Retry-After when present.