New API limits = 85 requests per day per company

MBartlett21

Why are the new limits so low? (20,000 per year per company)

And why only for private apps?

(And being only for private apps makes it look it isn't about infrastructure)

This will be terrible for exporting (~15 requests per drawing per revision once you take into account polling and getting properties and downloading the resulting file etc)

GitHub gives 120,000 per day

Google Docs gives ~85,000 per day per user

Microsoft gives 40,000 per day per company

Gitlab gives ~8500 per day per user

Onshape gives 85 per day per company

@billy2 @MichaelPascoe @Caden_Armstrong this will probably affect you

MichaelPascoe

I'm paraphrasing here but they implemented this a few updates back as an emergency performance fix to keep Onshape working properly.

Hopefully these next couple of performance related releases will address this but I'm not sure.

Perhaps Onshape can elaborate for us? @Vajrang_Parvate

Caden_Armstrong

I am very aware of the limits, and I can't speak for any decisions made by PTC.

But I as a developer and consultant, I've worked with a wide variety of APIs, all with their own quirks and limits. Not every API is comparable. Some API calls have a ton of compute behind them ( evalFeaturescript…exports…anything that forces regen).
If you've ever built anything in the cloud, storage is cheap - compute is expensive. See how many minutes of build/actions github includes in a plan (its not a lot, I hit the limit every month). My azure costs are like 99% compute and 1% database usage.

There have always been limits on the Onshape API, just different ones to the current ones. But yes, these new limits are going to be a bit more difficult to work with. Its forcing me to audit every solution, and be a lot more careful about every single api call that I make. Looking through my client base, most solutions are not affected by these API limits, only a minority are going over that yearly limit. There isn't actually a limit to the number of API calls you can make….theres just a cost associated with them now.