Infura · Rate Limits

Infura Rate Limits

Infura enforces credits-per-second throughput plus daily credit caps. Different methods cost different credits.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring credits_per_second and credits.

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 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Web3, Blockchain, RPC, Infrastructure, and MetaMask.

4 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-08.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 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

Free Throughput api_key
credits_per_second
500
Free tier.
Developer Throughput api_key
credits_per_second
4000
Developer tier.
Team Throughput api_key
credits_per_second
40000
Team tier.
Daily Credit Cap account
credits
see plan
Daily ceiling per plan.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Exponential backoff with jitter on 429.
Method Selection
Prefer non-archive RPC and avoid heavy debug_/trace_ calls when on lower tiers.

Sources

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