Cogent Communications Rate Limits

Name: Cogent Communications Rate Limits
Creator: Cogent Communications
Keywords: Rate Limiting, Internet, Network

Cogent Communications does not publish public API rate limits. Any API surface is gated behind the customer portal; throttling and quota policy is governed by contract rather than a public docs page.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.

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

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Internet, and Network.

1 Limits Throttle: 429

Rate LimitingInternetNetwork

Limits

Customer portal API (undocumented) account

varies

see vendor documentation (gated)

Policies

Backoff

Use exponential backoff with jitter on 429/503 responses; honor Retry-After when returned.

Contract-governed

Practical limits are governed by the customer's network service contract, not a published API tier.

Sources

https://www.cogentco.com/en/products-and-services