Hi friends! Started seeing a THROTTLED message on many of our graphql queries today, despite plenty of headroom: For example, this is a simple query on a Plus store, replicated in postman for clarity: [Screenshot 2026-02-04 at 4.17.13 PM] Is ShopifyqlQuery throttled by some other mechanism?

Thank you all for reaching out about the throttling you’re experiencing with your ShopifyQL inventory queries. Starting January 30, we implemented stricter throttling for inventory-specific ShopifyQL queries to protect analytics platform stability. This change was made to protect platform stability…

hey @Liam-Shopify ! We use ShopifyqlQuery to help merchants understand their data and interpret how are app is impacting key metrics. It’s crucial for us to have a reliable baseline. For example, this query started giving us issues lately: "FROM sales SHOW returning_customer_rate GROUP BY custome…

We are getting the same exact issue here. This was working properly through 1/30/2026 on an out-of-band batch process. It has nothing to do with rate limiting, as running a single call to shopifyqlQuery is failing Our call: query RunShopifyQL($query: String!) { shopifyqlQuery(query: $query) { …

yes, sorry if I wasn’t clear in the original post, we’re not doing this on any sort of interval where we would be rate limiting. we see this as throttling on a single request.

Has something changed around the limits for shopifyQL because I am also getting THROTTLED / rate limited for queries that were working a couple of days ago

I heard back from Shopify developer support. This was their exact response: ”This limit is based on time and other factors like number of fields included. Although the specifics of this limiting isn’t currently exposed or documented, there are future plans to do so although they aren’t currently s…

@NickP-Shopify can you provide any more information on this please?

Also seeing THROTTLED issues all of the sudden, for the exact same stores & queries that have been working just fine for months. I’m not using ShopifyqlQuery though, these are on inventorySetOnHandQuantities mutation calls.

Bumping this up for visibility.

Hi folks - we’re still working on improving the current experience. Our team will post here when there’s more to share.

THROTTLED on ShopifyqlQuery graphql endpoint despite headroom

GraphQL Admin API Troubleshooting

Liam-Shopify February 6, 2026, 8:39am 2

Hi @bailey

It does seem that ShopifyqlQuery has different rules around rate limiting - can you share the query you’re making, removing any sensitive info?

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THROTTLED on ShopifyqlQuery graphql endpoint despite headroom

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