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Guardian Rate Limits

The Guardian Content API enforces rate limits per developer API key. The free developer tier allows up to 12 requests per second and 5,000 requests per day. Commercial keys have higher or negotiated limits. Exceeding limits results in API errors and temporary blocking.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second and requests_per_day.

An exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, News, and Media.

4 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-06-13.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

Requests per second (developer tier) api-keyguardian-developer-free
requests_per_second · second
12
Requests per day (developer tier) api-keyguardian-developer-free
requests_per_day · day
5000
Requests per second (commercial tier) api-keyguardian-commercial
requests_per_second · second
-1
Requests per day (commercial tier) api-keyguardian-commercial
requests_per_day · day
-1

Policies

API key required
All requests must include a valid api-key query parameter. Requests without a key are rejected.
Daily limit reset
Daily request quotas reset at midnight UTC.
Non-commercial restriction
The free developer key is restricted to non-commercial use. Commercial projects must obtain a commercial API key.
Student and research projects
Non-profit, academic, and student projects qualify for the free developer tier with standard limits.

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