Stripe documents 100 requests per second in live mode but only 25 per second in test mode

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:46.988Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:46.988Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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Stripe's published default is 100 read operations and 100 write operations per second in live mode, and 25 of each per second in test mode. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429 with an error type of rate_limit_error. Separate and lower concurrency limits apply to some endpoints, notably the Files API and the search endpoints. Test mode being four times tighter is the surprise: a load test or bulk seed script that runs fine against production will throttle against test.

Confirm by looping a small list request with a test key. Handle 429 with exponential backoff plus jitter, and always send an idempotency key on writes so a retry after a 429 cannot double-charge. For bulk backfills use a fixed token bucket rather than unbounded concurrency.

Source: https://docs.stripe.com/rate-limits

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