Patreon · Rate Limits
Patreon Rate Limits
Documented Patreon API rate limits per client and per access token.
Patreon Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Patreon on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and 4xx_errors.
The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Creator Economy, Membership, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.
3 Limits
Throttle: 429
Creator EconomyMembershipRate LimitingQuotasThrottling
Limits
Client requests client
100
Per registered OAuth client.
Token requests token
100
Per access token.
Edge 4xx protection client
2000
Triggers a 30-minute block at the edge.
Policies
Backoff Strategy
Honor Retry-After / retry_after_seconds and apply exponential backoff with jitter.
Reduce 4xx Errors
Validate inputs before calling the API and avoid hammering 404s or 401s to prevent edge-level blocks.
Sources
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
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Call it yourself
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This rate limit
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/patreon-rate-limits"
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