Rate Limits

CarAPI endpoints are rate limited per minute, per day and per authentication request.

Per Day Limits

Requests over your daily limit will result in an HTTP 429 error. For per day limits, please refer to your plan on the pricing page: https://carapi.app/pricing

Tip

Need more requests per day? Enable soft rate limits on your account.

For free tier users, the daily limit is 1,000 requests per day. All rate limits clear at midnight EST (UTC-05:00).

Per Minute Limits

For per-minute requests, the rate limit is 600 requests per minute. Any requests made beyond this will result in an HTTP 429 error.

Authentication Limits

For requests to api/auth/login, the rate limits is 20 requests per minute. This unique rate limit is designed to encourage users to cache their JWTs. Please refer to our API documentation for rate limits.

Caching in memory, Redis, or to the file system depending on your language are all reasonable ways to cache your JWT and improve the performance of your CarAPI integration. Like other limits, your application will encounter an HTTP 429 code once this limit is exceeded. For more information please read our section on Authentication or contact support.