GoatCounter · Rate Limits

Goatcounter Rate Limits

Published and live-observed rate limits for the GoatCounter JSON API. This file replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that carried invented free/professional/enterprise tiers, invented per-minute and per-month quotas, and the wrong header names (X-RateLimit-* rather than the X-Rate-Limit-* GoatCounter actually returns). GoatCounter publishes ONE rate limit and it is not tiered.

Goatcounter Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for GoatCounter on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, across the all tier, measuring requests_per_second.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and policy response headers.

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

Tagged areas include Analytics, Page Views, Privacy, Statistics, and Web Analytics.

1 Limits limitremainingresetpolicy
Read from the provider's live responses on 2026-08-13 — www.goatcounter.com/help/api (Rate limit section); respon....
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Limits

JSON API default per-site
requests_per_second · second
4

Policies

Self-hosted configurability
Self-hosted GoatCounter exposes a -ratelimit flag on `goatcounter serve`, so the limits above describe the goatcounter.com hosted service and the shipped defaults, not a hard ceiling for an operator running their own instance.
Higher limit for backend counting
The docs note that /api/v0/count has higher rate limits than the browser-facing /count endpoint used by count.js, and allows batching multiple pageviews in one request.

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/goatcounter-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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