Deezer · Rate Limits

Deezer Rate Limits

Deezer publishes a global limit of 50 requests per 5 seconds per IP/app on the public REST API. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 4xx with an error code. There is no documented daily quota.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring requests.

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

Tagged areas include Music, Streaming, Audio, OAuth, and Catalog.

1 Limits Throttle: 429
MusicStreamingAudioOAuthCatalogPlaylistsRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Default ip-or-app
requests
50 per 5 seconds
Documented rate-limit baseline.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Sleep at least 100ms between bursts; on rate-limit errors apply exponential backoff with jitter.
Caching
Cache catalog responses; track/album metadata is stable and rarely needs re-fetching.

Sources