If you have received the rate_limit error message, you should limit background jobs, such as performing mass refunds, to a subset of the maximum. This allows time-sensitive events, such as live charges, to succeed even with additional traffic.

Additional information

• If you expect to hit this limit regularly, see Scaling your API with rate limiters on the Stripe Blog, which provides details on rate-limiting strategies to help you avoid this error in the longer term.

• Stripe has a rate limit of 100 parallel requests per second for live mode transactions and 25 parallel requests per second for test mode transactions.