Projects are rate-limited after exceeding request counts over a short time window. These rate limits ensure the reliability of our services.
Current rate limits may change without notice.
Authenticated requests associated with a particular project have more flexible rate limits and can make more requests per second.
Authenticated API requests
Write API calls have a 10 requests per second limit for the following endpoints:
/api/v0/add
/api/v0/block/put
/api/v0/dag/put
/api/v0/object/put
/api/v0/pin/add
You can retrieve IPFS data using the API with a limit of 100 requests per second for the remaining read-only methods such as:
/api/v0/cat
/api/v0/get
/api/v0/dag
Anonymous API requests
Making API calls without project authentication limits you to 12 write requests per minute, and content retrieval is possible at 10 requests per second.