REST Countries · Rate Limits

Rest Countries Rate Limits

Rate limit profile for the hosted REST Countries v3.1 API. REST Countries is a free, unauthenticated, community-run service. It does not publish hard per-key rate limits; the operator applies soft fair-use throttling at the CDN edge to protect availability for all consumers. Heavy consumers are encouraged to self-host the MPL-2.0 open-source distribution to remove all upstream limits.

Rest Countries Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for REST Countries on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, across the hosted and self-hosted tiers, measuring requests_per_minute and requests_per_day.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Countries, Geography, Open Source, Reference Data, and Rate Limiting.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-29.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-29 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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CountriesGeographyOpen SourceReference DataRate LimitingFair Use

Limits

Hosted Fair-Use Soft Limit ip
requests_per_minute · minute
-1
Soft, undocumented fair-use throttling enforced at the edge to prevent abuse. Treat published limit as advisory; expect occasional 429/503 under load. Cache responses aggressively and use the `fields` query parameter to reduce payload size.
Hosted Fair-Use Daily Soft Quota ip
requests_per_day · day
-1
No hard daily quota is published. Bulk consumers (full `/all` mirrors, crawlers) should either self-host or cache locally.
Self-Hosted (Unlimited) instance
requests_per_minute · minute
-1
Bounded only by the capacity of the operator's own infrastructure.

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