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Github Enterprise Rate Limits

Github Enterprise Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for GitHub Enterprise on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-05.

It captures 10 rate-limit definitions, including Unauthenticated primary limit — The primary rate limit for unauthenticated requests is 60 requests per hour.; Personal user primary limit — All of these requests count towards your personal rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour.; GitHub Enterprise Cloud app / OAuth app limit — If the app is owned by a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization, the rate limit is 15,000 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 Version Control, DevOps, CI/CD, Code Hosting, and Enterprise.

10 Limits x-ratelimit-limitx-ratelimit-remainingx-ratelimit-usedx-ratelimit-reset
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-05 — docs.github.com/api/article/body?pathname=/en/enterprise-....
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Limits

Unauthenticated primary limit per-ip
The primary rate limit for unauthenticated requests is 60 requests per hour.
· per 1 hour
Personal user primary limit per-user
All of these requests count towards your personal rate limit of 5,000 requests per hour.
· per 1 hour
GitHub Enterprise Cloud app / OAuth app limit per-appGitHub Enterprise Cloud
If the app is owned by a GitHub Enterprise Cloud organization, the rate limit is 15,000 requests per hour.
· per 1 hour
GITHUB_TOKEN (Enterprise Cloud) per-repositoryGitHub Enterprise Cloud
For requests to resources that belong to a GitHub Enterprise Cloud account, the limit is 15,000 requests per hour per repository.
· per 1 hour
Enterprise audit log endpoint per-user-and-ip
has a rate limit of 1,750 queries per hour, per user and IP address.
/enterprises/{enterprise}/audit-log
· per 1 hour
Concurrent requests (secondary) per-userburst
No more than 100 concurrent requests are allowed.
REST points per minute (secondary) per-endpointburst
No more than 900 points per minute are allowed for REST API endpoints
· per 1 minute
Content creation per minute (secondary) per-userburst
no more than 80 content-generating requests per minute
· per 1 minute
Content creation per hour (secondary) per-user
no more than 500 content-generating requests per hour are allowed
· per 1 hour
OAuth access token requests (secondary) per-app
No more than 2,000 OAuth access token requests per hour are allowed for GitHub Apps and OAuth apps.
· per 1 hour

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