Protomaps · Rate Limits
Protomaps Rate Limits
Rate limits and usage policies for the Protomaps hosted tile API.
Protomaps Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Protomaps on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 5 rate-limit definitions.
The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined.
Tagged areas include Maps, Tiles, Geospatial, PMTiles, and Vector Tiles.
5 Limits
MapsTilesGeospatialPMTilesVector TilesOpen-SourceSelf-HostedOpenStreetMap
Limits
Monthly Tile Request Soft Cap
Not a hard cutoff; behavior above this threshold is not explicitly published. Users exceeding the cap are encouraged to self-host.
Maximum Zoom Level
CORS Restrictions
API Key Required
Usage History Window
Policies
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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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.
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This rate limit
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/protomaps-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.