International Exchange Rate Limits Overview

Coinbase International Exchange enforces API rate limits at the individual API key level and at the account level.

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API keys can be used simultaneously between trading and view-only sessions.

Summary

General Maximums

• Maximum API Keys per account: 20
• Maximum Drop Copy Sessions per account: 2
• Maximum messages per second per account: 4000

API Limits

• FIX Connections per API key: 1
• FIX messages per second per API key: 400
• REST requests per second per API Key: 100

FIX API Rate Limits

• Connections per API key: 1
• Messages per second per API key: 400 (session disconnects at 700)

caution

Your FIX session is disconnected if your messages exceed 700 MPS.

Best Practice

Spread messages across FIX sessions. If optimized at 400 msg/s per key with 10 keys, you can send 4000 msg/sec per account.

REST API Rate Limits

• Requests per second per API Key: 100

REST Errors

HTTP Code: 429
Message: Rate limit exceeded - Server allows 100 requests per second