Mercado Libre · Rate Limits

Mercado Libre Rate Limits

Mercado Libre applies per-app and per-user rate limits on the marketplace REST API. Public details are not exhaustive — limits depend on the resource (items, orders, search, etc.) and on the application's commercial agreement. The API returns HTTP 429 when limits are exceeded.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Default per-app application
requests
see provider documentation
Per-app rate limits apply across all endpoints; not publicly documented in detail.
Per-user user
requests
see provider documentation
Limits also apply per authenticated marketplace user/seller.
Search application
requests
see provider documentation
Search endpoints have stricter quotas than catalog reads.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 responses with exponential backoff and jitter; cache responses where allowed.
Webhooks
Prefer webhook notifications over polling for orders and questions to reduce request volume.

Sources