Travis CI · Rate Limits

Travis Ci Rate Limits

Travis CI's primary throttling mechanisms are (a) the per-plan build credit budget (35K/mo Usage Based, unlimited on Unlimited plans, OSS allotment) and (b) the per-plan concurrent-job ceiling. The REST API itself returns 429 with Retry-After when abused.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Concurrent jobs (Usage Based) account
concurrent_jobs
80
Usage Based plan.
Concurrent jobs (Unlimited) account
concurrent_jobs
300
Unlimited plan.
Linux build credits (Usage Based monthly) account
credits/month
35000
35K Linux build credits / month on Usage Based; 420K / year on annual.
REST API requests api_token
requests ยท window
see Travis docs
Per-token throttle; 429 with Retry-After. Numeric ceilings not publicly enumerated.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor Retry-After on 429; use exponential backoff with jitter.
Required Headers
User-Agent, Accept (versioned), Authorization required for full access.

Sources