Pinata · Rate Limits

Pinata Rate Limits

Pinata enforces per-API-key request rate limits and per-plan gateway request quotas.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute and gateway_requests.

The profile also includes 1 backoff/retry policy defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Web3, IPFS, Storage, Gateway, and Rate Limiting.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Web3IPFSStorageGatewayRate Limiting

Limits

Default api_key
requests_per_minute
30
Default API rate limit on Free plan; higher on paid tiers.
Gateway Requests account
gateway_requests
see plan
Per-month gateway request cap by plan.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Exponential backoff on 429.

Sources

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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/pinata-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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