Open Policy Agent · Rate Limits

Open Policy Agent Rate Limits

Open Policy Agent has no centrally enforced rate limits because the engine is operated by the consumer. Throughput depends on the deployment topology (sidecar, daemonset, library) and underlying hardware. Operators commonly front OPA with their own gateway and apply throttling there.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Policies, Standards, Rate Limiting, and Open Source.

1 Limits Throttle: 429
PoliciesStandardsRate LimitingOpen Source

Limits

Self-hosted throughput deployment
varies
see operator deployment sizing
OPA throughput is bounded by host CPU and policy complexity; benchmark for your workload.

Policies

Operator-controlled
Because OPA is self-hosted, all rate limiting is the operator's responsibility — typically enforced by an upstream API gateway, service mesh, or ingress controller.
Decision caching
Use bundle service polling and decision caching to reduce evaluation pressure under high query rates.

Work with this as data

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

4 MCP tools reach this
  • 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.
All 92 tools

Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/open-policy-agent-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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