Spacex Rate Limits
The community SpaceX REST API enforces a per-IP request-rate limit of approximately 50 requests/second at the hosted endpoint (https://api.spacexdata.com). All GET responses and POST /query responses are also cached server-side via Redis (launches 20s; capsules / cores / launchpads / landpads / crew / ships / payloads 5min; dragons / rockets 24h). Throttled responses return HTTP 429. Self-hosted deployments do not enforce any rate limit by default.
Spacex Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for SpaceX (Community API) on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second and seconds.
The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Caching.
Limits
Sources
- https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/README.md
- https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/docs/README.md
- https://github.com/r-spacex/SpaceX-API/blob/master/middleware
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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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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/spacex-rate-limits"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.