Blockscout · Rate Limits
Blockscout Rate Limits
Per-chain Blockscout instances enforce a fair-use rate limit on the public REST endpoints (typically 10 rps per IP). The hosted PRO API on dev.blockscout.com gates per-key rate caps by plan tier and meters monthly credits.
Blockscout Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Blockscout on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second.
The profile also includes 1 backoff/retry policy defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Web3, Explorer, EVM, and Rate Limiting.
3 Limits
Throttle: 429
Web3ExplorerEVMRate Limiting
Limits
Public per-chain instance (fair use) ip
10
PRO Free api_key
5
PRO Paid api_key
-1
Per-tier; consult dev.blockscout.com/pricing.
Policies
Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 Retry-After and apply exponential backoff with jitter.