How Shopify's GraphQL Rate Limits Actually Work (and How to Stop Getting 429'd) (opens in new tab)

Originally published on the Kolachi Tech blog. Canonical link points back to the original. If you treat Shopify's GraphQL Admin API like a REST endpoint and fire concurrent paginated requests, you will hit a wall of 429s fast. The reason is simple: Shopify doesn't rate-limit by request count. It limits by calculated query cost. Once that clicks, the limits stop being a wall and become a budget. Here's the working model. The core idea: cost, not count REST charges the same for every call, whet...