The Graph · Rate Limits

The Graph Rate Limits

The Graph gateway enforces per-API-key rate limits in addition to query metering. Substreams are billed by data egress.

The Graph Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for The Graph on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring queries_per_second and requests_per_second.

The profile also includes 1 backoff/retry policy defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Web3, Indexing, GraphQL, Subgraphs, and Multi-chain.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Web3IndexingGraphQLSubgraphsMulti-chainRate Limiting

Limits

Subgraph Gateway api_key
queries_per_second
30
Default per-key throughput.
Token API api_key
requests_per_second
10
Default Token API rate.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Exponential backoff on 429; cache GraphQL responses where idempotent.

Sources