Cloudflare · Rate Limits

Cloudflare Rate Limits

Cloudflare global API limit + per-product limits.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_5min, requests_per_minute, writes_per_second, and subrequests.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, CDN, and Edge.

5 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingCDNEdge

Limits

Global REST API user/account
requests_per_5min · 5 minutes
1200
GraphQL Analytics account
requests_per_minute · minute
300
Workers KV writes key
writes_per_second · second per key
1
Workers Subrequests (Free) request
subrequests · request
50
Workers Subrequests (Paid) request
subrequests · request
1000

Policies

Per-zone billing
Paid plans bill per zone, not per account.
Per-product limits
Workers, R2, D1, KV, Stream, Images each have own limits.

Sources

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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

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/cloudflare-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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