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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

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

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 Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
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.