SurveyMonkey · Rate Limits

Surveymonkey Rate Limits

SurveyMonkey API v3 rate limits depend on the application stage. Draft and Private apps are limited to 120 requests/minute and a daily ceiling starting at 500 calls/day. Public apps published to the SurveyMonkey App Directory can make up to 500,000 requests/day. 429 responses are returned when limits are exceeded.

3 Limits Throttle: 429

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Limits

Draft / Private app — per minute app

requests · 1m

120

Draft / Private app — per day app

requests · 1d

500

Can be raised after deployment.

Public app — per day app

requests · 1d

500000

Policies

Backoff Strategy

Honor 429 retry hints and inspect X-Ratelimit-* headers for available capacity.

OAuth scopes

Some scopes require paid plans (Advantage / Premier / Enterprise).

Sources

https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/docs#rate-limits
https://api.surveymonkey.com/v3/docs#authentication