Stripe · Rate Limits
Stripe Rate Limits
Stripe API rate limits enforced per-account in live and test modes separately. Limits are not published per-tier; raise via support for high-volume needs.
6 Limits
Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingPayments
Limits
Read requests (live mode) account
100
Write requests (live mode) account
100
Read requests (test mode) account
25
Write requests (test mode) account
25
Search API account
20
Files API uploads account
20
Policies
Lock contention
Concurrent writes to the same object can return 429 with a 'lock_timeout' error; retry with backoff.
Idempotency
Use Idempotency-Key header for safe retries on POST/DELETE.
Live vs test
Test mode has lower limits; do not load-test in test mode.