SharePoint Throttling Limits for Graph API Requests

Shreyas Rastogi 225 Reputation points
2025-03-26T19:43:48.5933333+00:00

What are the throttling limits when using the Graph API for adding, updating, or deleting items in a SharePoint list? Specifically, if there are 5000 requests per minute, what impact can be expected, and is there a limit for a 24-hour rolling window?

Microsoft Security Microsoft Graph
0 comments No comments
{count} votes

1 answer

Sort by: Most helpful
  1. Vasil Michev 119.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2025-03-26T20:26:40.36+00:00

    There are multiple limits that apply on multiple levels (i.e. user, app, tenant), you should review the documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/how-to-avoid-getting-throttled-or-blocked-in-sharepoint-online

    When you stat approaching the limit, you will be rate limited, and eventually blocked. Details are in the article above.


Your answer

Answers can be marked as Accepted Answers by the question author, which helps users to know the answer solved the author's problem.