Audius · Rate Limits
Audius Rate Limits
Audius hosts apply rate limits at the discovery-node level to prevent abuse, but the network is decentralized and individual host operators set their own thresholds. There is no documented global rate limit. Clients are encouraged to send an app-name header for attribution.
Audius Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Audius on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring requests.
The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Music, Streaming, Decentralized, Web3, and Open Source.
1 Limits
Throttle: 429
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Limits
Per discovery node host
host-defined
Each network node sets its own limits.
Policies
App Name Header
Send the app_name query parameter on every request for attribution and to reduce throttling risk.
Host Rotation
Use the SDK or /health-check to rotate across discovery nodes.
Sources
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.