Building Bitbucket Cloud for enhanced security, compliance, and scale
Apr 6, 2023Ash Moosa

Summary
This post details the scaling of Bitbucket Cloud API rate limits based on paid user count, introducing a points-based model with Tier 1 (Global Pool) and Tier 2 (Per-Tenant Pool) quotas, and shared rate limits. It also highlights new rate limit headers (X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-NearLimit) for monitoring API usage.