The Multiplayer Services SDK uses rate limits to help control network traffic by restricting the number of requests received by the API within any given second. The following table shows the rate limit for each of the session request types for players and service accounts. Because service accounts are allowed much more control and are likely to be managing multiple lobbies at a time, their rate limits are more relaxed.

Service Account rate limiting is on a per IP address basis. The number of requests taken in account will be shared if several game servers are hosted on a same machine or if several machines are behind the same NAT gateway.

The Relay service uses rate limiting to help control network traffic by restricting the number of requests received by the API within any given second. The following table shows the rate limit for each of the Relay service’s request types. The rate limit applies to each authenticated player.