Medium · Rate Limits

Medium Rate Limits

Medium publishes NO rate limits for its REST API. Its documentation (Overview, Authentication, Resources, Testing) contains no limit, quota, throttle or 429 reference, declares no RateLimit-*/X-RateLimit-*/Retry-After response header, and none of the six refined OpenAPIs in this repository declares a 429 response. A client therefore has no runtime signal at all: it cannot read a remaining budget, cannot learn a reset time, and has no documented backoff contract.

Medium Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Medium on the APIs.io network.

The provider publishes no rate limits that could be read; the profile records that absence rather than inventing a ceiling.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

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Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-17 — github.com/Medium/medium-api-docs.
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Medium publishes no rate limits that could be read; the profile records that absence rather than inventing a ceiling.
REPLACES A FABRICATED SCAFFOLD. The previous version of this file published five limits across free/professional/enterprise tiers (10, 100 and 1,000 requests per minute; 1,000 and 100,000 requests per month; burst ceilings of 20/200/5,000) and a full X-RateLimit-* header set. Medium documents none of it — those were bulk-sweep scaffold defaults (method: generated, dated 2026-05-04) presented as provider behaviour. A limit_count of 0 with this note is the honest measurement, and it matters: an agent told to expect Retry-After on a 429 would be relying on a header Medium never sends.
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