Open Food Facts · Rate Limits

Open Food Facts Rate Limits

Rate limits Open Food Facts publishes on its own API documentation. Limits are enforced per IP address, not per key — the project issues no API keys. Replaces the 2026-05-04 scaffold, whose tier/quota values were never published by the provider.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute and requests.

Limit state is signalled in the note, limit, remaining, and reset response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 503.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 503 Quota: 503 notelimitremainingreset
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-17 — openfoodfacts.github.io/openfoodfacts-server/api/.
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Rate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Product read queries ip
requests_per_minute · minute
15
Search queries ip
requests_per_minute · minute
10
Global ceiling across all clients global
requests
The documentation states a global rate limit exists across all IPs and that HTTP 503 is returned when it is exceeded, without publishing the numeric ceiling.

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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

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  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

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

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