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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, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

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

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter response header, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

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 Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-04.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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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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Tools for rate limits

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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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