Linode · Rate Limits

Linode Rate Limits

Published Linode API v4 rate limits, applied per user by OAuth token, or by IP address for public operations.

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

It captures 12 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute and requests_per_15s.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Cloud Compute.

12 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingCloud Compute

Limits

Paginated GET collections (default) user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
200
All other operations (default) user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
1600
Create a Linode user
requests_per_15s · 15 seconds
20
List images user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
20
List StackScripts user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
60
Statistics operations user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
50
Create a volume user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
100
Accept a service transfer user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
2
Open a support ticket user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
2
Cloud Pulse metrics catalog (GET) user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
100
Read an entity's metrics account
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
300
Object Storage key and bucket writes user
requests_per_minute · 1 minute
60

Sources

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All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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