Bitly · Rate Limits

Bitly Rate Limits

Bitly Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Bitly on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions.

Limit state is signalled in the published, note, observed, and absent response headers.

Tagged areas include Links, URL Shorteners, QR Codes, Analytics, and Marketing.

8 Limits publishednoteobservedabsent
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-13 — dev.bitly.com/docs/getting-started/rate-limits.
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LinksURL ShortenersQR CodesAnalyticsMarketingLink ManagementWebhookAttributionAgentsMCP

Limits

per-ip
· per concurrent
5/concurrent
"API users are limited to a maximum of five concurrent connections from a single IP address."
per-account
· per minute
Bitly's worked example is 1,000 calls/hour corresponding to 100 calls/minute. The absolute hourly figure is not published; it is plan-dependent and must be read from GET /v4/user/platform_limits.
per-account
· per hour
Not published. Plan-dependent; retrievable only from the platform_limits endpoint.
per-accountFree
· per month
1000/month
per-accountCore
· per month
5000/month
per-accountGrowth
· per month
25000/month
per-accountPremium
· per month
50000/month
per-accountEnterprise
· per month
Custom, negotiated with an account manager.

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/bitly-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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