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
30
Default API rate limit on Free plan; higher on paid tiers.
Gateway Requests account
see plan
Per-month gateway request cap by plan.
Policies
Backoff Strategy
Exponential backoff on 429.