Glassnode · Rate Limits

Glassnode Rate Limits

Glassnode enforces per-API-key rate limits and a fair-use policy. Documented soft limit is approximately 30 requests per second on Professional tier and higher per institutional contract. Throttled responses return HTTP 429.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second.

The profile also includes 1 backoff/retry policy defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Crypto, On-Chain, and Rate Limiting.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
CryptoOn-ChainRate Limiting

Limits

Professional API api_key
requests_per_second
30
Approximate soft limit.
Institutional API api_key
requests_per_second
-1
Per-contract; commonly 100 rps or higher.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 Retry-After; cache long-window time-series; aggregate metric requests.

Sources