OpenStreetMap · Rate Limits
Openstreetmap Rate Limits
OSMF API tile servers rate-limited per IP under AUP. Production must self-host or use third-party providers.
Openstreetmap Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for OpenStreetMap on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second, concurrent, and changes_per_day.
The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and blockedHighVolume.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Open Data.
4 Limits
Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingOpen Data
Limits
Tile server (osm.org) ip
2
Per AUP: be reasonable; bulk download tiles is forbidden.
Nominatim (osm.org) ip
1
Per Nominatim usage policy.
Overpass API (overpass-api.de) ip
2
Per public Overpass policy.
Editing API user
no hard limit
Subject to vandalism review.
Sources
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
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.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
This rate limit
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/openstreetmap-rate-limits"
All rate limits
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.