Ghost · Rate Limits

Ghost Rate Limits

Rate limits depend on the deployment model — Ghost(Pro) hosted vs. self-hosted.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and seconds.

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

Tagged areas include Publishing, Open Source, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
PublishingOpen SourceRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Content API requests site
requests
cacheable_no_published_throttle
Read-only Content API is intended to be fully cacheable.
Admin API JWT lifetime token
seconds
300
JWTs derived from the admin API key expire after 5 minutes.
Self-hosted limits deployment
requests
deployment_dependent
Bounded by the operator's web server / reverse proxy configuration.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor Retry-After when present and apply exponential backoff with jitter.
Cache Aggressively
Front the Content API with a CDN; responses are cache-friendly.

Sources