Blockchair · Rate Limits

Blockchair Rate Limits

Blockchair enforces a daily call quota plus per-second and per-minute rate limits. Without a key, usage is capped at roughly 1440 requests per day (about one per minute on average) with a hard ceiling of 30 requests per minute. A soft limit of about 5 requests per second applies to both free and paid plans, enabled manually by admins only when servers are under very high load. Paid Enterprise plans raise the daily call budget. Each call also has an internal request-cost weighting, so heavier queries draw down the daily quota faster.

Blockchair Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Blockchair on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and request_units.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Explorer, On-Chain Data, and Rate Limiting.

5 Limits Throttle: 402
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Limits

Daily Requests (no key) ip
requests
1440 per day
Personal/testing use without a key; about one request per minute on average.
Requests Per Minute (no key) ip
requests
30 per minute
Hard ceiling on the free, no-key tier.
Requests Per Second (soft) account
requests
~5 per second
Soft limit on both free and paid plans, enabled manually under very high server load.
Daily Calls (paid) account
requests
25000-100000 per day
Set by the selected Enterprise plan; custom plans can exceed this.
Request Cost account
request_units
weighted per call
Each response carries a request_cost in context; heavier queries consume more of the daily call budget than the nominal one-call-per-request.

Policies

Tiered Limits
Daily call budgets rise from the free tier through Enterprise and custom plans.
Load-Based Throttling
The ~5 rps soft limit is toggled by admins only during periods of very high server load.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should throttle to stay under per-minute limits and back off when throttled.

Sources

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