GitHub Container Registry · Rate Limits

Github Container Registry Rate Limits

Github Container Registry Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for GitHub Container Registry on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-04.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, including unauthenticated — The primary rate limit for unauthenticated requests is 60 requests per hour.; personal access token — personal rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour; GitHub App installation — installation’s minimum rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour.

Limit state is signalled in the x-ratelimit-limit, x-ratelimit-remaining, x-ratelimit-used, and x-ratelimit-reset response headers.

Tagged areas include Container Images, Containers, GitHub, Packages, and Registry.

6 Limits x-ratelimit-limitx-ratelimit-remainingx-ratelimit-usedx-ratelimit-reset
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-04 — docs.github.com/en/rest/using-the-rest-api/rate-limits-fo....
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Limits

unauthenticated per-ip
The primary rate limit for unauthenticated requests is 60 requests per hour.
· per hour
personal access token per-user
personal rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour
· per hour
GitHub App installation per-installation
installation's minimum rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour
· per hour
OAuth app per-app
the rate limit is 5,000 requests per hour per OAuth app
· per hour
GITHUB_TOKEN per-repository
is 1,000 requests per hour per repository
· per hour
GITHUB_TOKEN enterprise cloud per-repositoryGitHub Enterprise Cloud
the limit is 15,000 requests per hour per repository
· per hour

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Call it yourself

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/github-container-registry-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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