Craft CMS · Rate Limits

Craft Cms Rate Limits

Craft CMS does not impose built-in rate limiting on its GraphQL API or Element API endpoints by default. Rate limiting is implemented at the infrastructure or plugin level. The official Rate Limit plugin for Craft CMS provides IP-based request throttling with a default threshold of 4000 requests per minute per IP address, returning HTTP 429 when exceeded. Self-hosted deployments can configure limits via server-level controls (nginx, Apache) or through the Rate Limit plugin.

Craft Cms Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Craft CMS on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute and complexity_score.

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 response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, GraphQL, and CMS.

2 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-06-12.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-06-12 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 LimitingGraphQLCMS

Limits

IP-Based Request Throttle (Rate Limit Plugin Default) ip
requests_per_minute · minute
4000
GraphQL Query Complexity key
complexity_score · usage
-1

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