Visa Acceptance · Rate Limits

Visa Acceptance Rate Limits

Visa Acceptance Solutions (Cybersource) does not publish a public rate-limit table for its REST APIs. Throughput is governed by the merchant's processor agreement and per-region capacity; sustained TPS for production traffic is provisioned through Visa Acceptance support.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingPaymentsCybersourceCard Acceptance

Limits

Production TPS merchant
requests_per_second
provisioned per merchant agreement; not publicly published
Sandbox / test environment merchant
varies
capped for evaluation; contact support for raise requests

Policies

Provisioned throughput
Sustained transaction throughput is allocated per merchant in coordination with Visa Acceptance's onboarding and support teams; bursts above provisioned TPS may be throttled.
Backoff
On 429 / 503 responses, clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and retry idempotent operations using the client-reference / merchant-defined identifier to avoid duplicate authorizations.

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