NuGet · Rate Limits

Nuget Rate Limits

nuget.org does not publish numeric rate limits for the V3 HTTP API. Reads (PackageBaseAddress, RegistrationsBaseUrl, SearchQueryService) are CDN-fronted via api.nuget.org and tolerate normal client traffic; abusive or scraping traffic is throttled per-IP at the edge. The official client retries up to three times on 5xx responses. Authenticated push operations use X-NuGet-ApiKey and are throttled at the application layer.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.

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

Tagged areas include Package Management, .NET, Packages, Registry, and Rate Limiting.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Package Management.NETPackagesRegistryRate Limiting

Limits

nuget.org public reads IP
varies
not numerically published; CDN-throttled per-IP
Authenticated push api-key
varies
not numerically published; abuse-throttled at the application layer

Policies

Client retry behavior
The official NuGet client retries up to three times on 500-level status codes or TCP/DNS errors. Recommended for third-party clients: exponential backoff with jitter on 429/503.
Redirects
GET responses may return 301/302; clients must follow Location headers and re-issue the GET.
Authentication scope
Only the PackagePublish resource requires authentication via X-NuGet-ApiKey. All other V3 resources on nuget.org accept anonymous requests.
Bulk indexing
Use the Catalog resource (commit-driven page log) rather than scraping search to mirror the registry; this is the supported pattern for full ingestion.

Sources

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