Cloudflare Stream · Rate Limits

Cloudflare Stream Rate Limits

Cloudflare Stream is served through the shared Cloudflare API at api.cloudflare.com/client/v4, which enforces a global limit of 1,200 requests per five minutes per user across all Cloudflare API endpoints. Stream itself adds product-level constraints rather than a separate per-endpoint request cap: list operations return up to 1,000 videos per request, an account may hold up to 1,000 signing keys, and only one webhook subscription is allowed per account. Throughput is otherwise governed by usage-based storage and delivery billing, not by a per-minute quota. Media ingest (RTMPS/SRT) and delivery (HLS/DASH) run on the media plane and are not counted against the control-plane API request limit.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, videos, keys, and subscriptions.

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

Tagged areas include Video, Streaming, Media, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
VideoStreamingMediaRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Cloudflare API Requests account
requests
1200 per 5 minutes
Global Cloudflare API limit that applies to all Stream control-plane calls.
List Videos Page Size request
videos
1000 per request
A single list request returns up to 1,000 videos; paginate for more.
Signing Keys account
keys
1000 per account
Up to 1,000 signed-URL signing keys can exist per account.
Webhook Subscriptions account
subscriptions
1 per account
Only one Stream webhook subscription is allowed per account.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses from the Cloudflare API.
Usage-Based Throughput
Sustained video volume is governed by usage-based storage and delivery billing rather than a fixed per-minute quota.
Signed Token Expiry
Signed URL tokens expire in one hour by default; mint fresh tokens rather than reusing expired ones.

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