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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