API Rate Limits & Daily Posting Limits Explained

No Account Limits

bundle.social is a unified social media API built for scale. Unlike other social media management APIs, we don’t charge per connected account or punish you for growing. Connect 1 account or 10,000 accounts - same flat pricing. Our API supports Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Pinterest, Reddit, Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky, Discord, Slack, and Google Business Profile. Perfect for SaaS platforms, agencies, and enterprise applications that need unlimited social media integrations.

API Rate Limits

We use a multi-layer throttling system to keep things fair and prevent bursts from taking down the ranch. Limits are tracked per endpoint and per tracker: API key (organization), bearer token (user), or IP as fallback.

The Three Layers

Layer	Window	Max Requests	Theoretical equivalent	What it prevents
Burst	1 second	100	6,000 / minute	Someone doing `Promise.all()` with 500 requests
Short	10 seconds	500	3,000 / minute	Aggressive polling or runaway loops
Minute	1 minute	2,000	2,000 / minute	Sustained high-volume abuse

All three layers are enforced simultaneously. For sustained traffic, the minute layer (2,000/min) is the effective cap.

Because limits are per endpoint, heavy traffic on POST /post does not consume the same bucket as GET /analytics for the same tracker.

Easy there, cowboy. If you hit any of these limits, you’ll get a 429 Too Many Requests. Take a breath, wait a moment, and try again. We’re not going anywhere.

External Platform Rate Limits

These are daily limits per connected social account, counted per UTC calendar day by the post’s scheduled date. The quota is keyed by the platform account itself (platform + account id), not by the connection or the team - so the same real account connected more than once (reconnected, or added to multiple teams) shares a single quota.

Posting daily limits per platform per tier

Platform	FREE	PRO	BUSINESS
TWITTER	5	15	15
FACEBOOK	10	50	100
INSTAGRAM	10	50	100
LINKEDIN	10	18	24
YOUTUBE	10	10	15
TIKTOK	5	10	15
THREADS	10	200	250
PINTEREST	10	24	36
REDDIT	10	24	36
DISCORD	10	100	200
SLACK	10	100	200
MASTODON	10	50	100
BLUESKY	10	50	100
GOOGLE_BUSINESS	10	20	40
SNAPCHAT	5	20	40

YouTube also has an organization-wide daily upload cap. On top of the per-account limits above, new YouTube uploads are capped per organization per day. This day follows YouTube’s quota day and resets at midnight Pacific Time, not UTC. When the cap is reached, the YouTube publish fails with YT:orgDailyUploadLimit and isn’t retried automatically, see Errors. Need a higher cap? Contact us.

Example: On Pro, each connected TikTok account gets its own 10 posts/day. Connect 5 different TikTok accounts → 50/day total (10 each, independent). But connect the same TikTok account to 5 teams → still 10/day total, because the quota follows the real account, not the connection.

Check Daily Usage For One Account

Endpoint: GET /api/v1/organization/usage/daily-limits

Query	Required	Description
`socialAccountId`	Yes	bundle.social social account ID.
`date`	No	Any parseable date or timestamp. Defaults to today; usage is calculated for its UTC calendar day.

GET /api/v1/organization/usage/daily-limits?socialAccountId=sa_123&date=2026-07-12

The response includes the UTC date, account ID, platform type, and separate posts and comments objects with used, limit, and remaining.

Commenting daily limits per platform per tier

Daily caps per connected account, per platform, for comments created via the API.

Platform	FREE	PRO	BUSINESS
FACEBOOK	3	50	100
INSTAGRAM	3	50	100
LINKEDIN	3	18	24
YOUTUBE	3	10	15
TIKTOK	3	10	15
THREADS	3	200	250
REDDIT	3	24	36
DISCORD	3	100	200
SLACK	3	100	200
MASTODON	3	50	100
BLUESKY	3	50	100

Comment creation is currently available for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, Threads, Mastodon, Discord, Slack, and Bluesky. Twitter/X, Pinterest, and Google Business are not supported by the Comments API.

Monthly organization-wide limits

On top of daily limits, there are monthly caps across the entire organization:

Tier	Monthly Posts	Monthly Comments	Monthly Uploads
FREE	20	50	200
PRO	10,000	5,000	100,000
BUSINESS	100,000	50,000	1,000,000

How the monthly cap is counted: by creation time, in the UTC calendar month - i.e. when you schedule an item, not when it publishes. Scheduling a post for a future month still consumes the current month’s quota. Drafts don’t count; failed or deleted items still count (deleting doesn’t refund). The window resets on the 1st of each month (UTC).

Monthly messages and automation runs (per account)

Direct Messages and Automations have their own monthly quotas, counted per connected Instagram, Facebook or TikTok account rather than per organization:

Tier	Outbound messages / account / month	Automation runs / account / month
FREE	0	0
PRO	200	200
BUSINESS	1,000	1,000

For what counts toward each quota, see Direct Messages: Plans and limits and Automations: Plans and limits. Both reset on the 1st of each month (UTC). A higher limit agreed for your organization or for a single account replaces the plan default.

Check Monthly Message And Automation Usage

Endpoint: GET /api/v1/organization/usage/messages Lists every Instagram, Facebook and TikTok account in your organization (newest first) with its usage in the current UTC month. It works even before Direct Messages or Automations are turned on for your organization, so you can read the limits up front.

Query	Required	Description
`teamId`	No	Only accounts in this team.
`socialAccountType`	No	`INSTAGRAM`, `FACEBOOK` or `TIKTOK`.
`socialAccountId`	No	Only this account.
`offset`	No	Default `0`.
`limit`	No	1 to 100, default `10`.

GET /api/v1/organization/usage/messages?socialAccountType=INSTAGRAM&limit=20

{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "sa_123",
      "type": "INSTAGRAM",
      "username": "acme",
      "displayName": "Acme",
      "messagesUsed": 57,
      "messagesLimit": 200,
      "automationRunsUsed": 41,
      "automationRunsLimit": 200
    }
  ],
  "total": 1
}

messagesLimit and automationRunsLimit are the limits we enforce for that account, including any override. There is no remaining field: subtract *Used from *Limit. Usage of an account you reconnected is summed with the account it replaced, the same way sending is counted.

Import Limits

Limits that apply when importing historical content from connected social accounts. Maximum posts imported from each connected social account per month. Counter resets on the 1st of each month (UTC).

Tier	Posts / account / month
FREE	5
PRO	100
BUSINESS	500

A single post-history import request is additionally capped at 100 posts (hard cap, not overridable).

Comment imports (per post)

Maximum comments stored per post on each import run. Imports always run - the cap just truncates to the newest N comments before storage. No monthly window, no counter.

Tier	Comments / post / import
FREE	25
PRO	200
BUSINESS	1,000

Maximum Google reviews or Facebook Page recommendations imported from each connected social account per month. Counter resets on the 1st of each month (UTC).

Tier	Reviews or recommendations / account / month
FREE	5
PRO	200
BUSINESS	200

A single import request is additionally capped at 250 reviews or recommendations (hard cap, not overridable).

API Documentation

Platforms

Guides

Endpoints

Rate Limits

No Account Limits

API Rate Limits

The Three Layers

External Platform Rate Limits

Posting daily limits per platform per tier

Check Daily Usage For One Account

Commenting daily limits per platform per tier

Monthly organization-wide limits

Monthly messages and automation runs (per account)

Check Monthly Message And Automation Usage

Import Limits

Comment imports (per post)

​No Account Limits

​API Rate Limits

​The Three Layers

​External Platform Rate Limits

​Posting daily limits per platform per tier

​Check Daily Usage For One Account

​Commenting daily limits per platform per tier

​Monthly organization-wide limits

​Monthly messages and automation runs (per account)

​Check Monthly Message And Automation Usage

​Import Limits

​Post history imports (monthly, per social account)

​Comment imports (per post)

​Google review and Facebook recommendation imports (monthly, per social account)

No Account Limits

API Rate Limits

The Three Layers

External Platform Rate Limits

Posting daily limits per platform per tier

Check Daily Usage For One Account

Commenting daily limits per platform per tier

Monthly organization-wide limits

Monthly messages and automation runs (per account)

Check Monthly Message And Automation Usage

Import Limits

Post history imports (monthly, per social account)

Comment imports (per post)

Google review and Facebook recommendation imports (monthly, per social account)