The Things Network Rate Limits

Rate-limit, concurrency, and fair-use policies that apply to The Things Stack APIs and to traffic on The Things Network community network. The Things Stack itself enforces per-endpoint and per-tenant rate limits via the IS/AS/NS/GS rate-limiter configuration. The community network additionally enforces a LoRaWAN airtime fair-use policy.

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

It captures 7 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, concurrent-deliveries, messages, airtime, and duty-cycle.

Tagged areas include LoRaWAN, IoT, Internet of Things, Open-Source, and Network Server.

7 Limits
LoRaWANIoTInternet of ThingsOpen-SourceNetwork ServerLPWANTelemetrySensorsGatewaysConnectivityApache 2.0

Limits

api
requests
Self-hosted deployments configure burst and average rates per endpoint class. The Things Stack Cloud applies The Things Industries' production defaults.
api
requests
integration
concurrent-deliveries
integration
messages
community-network
airtime
community-network
messages
radio
duty-cycle
Region-dependent (EU868, US915, AU915, AS923, IN865, KR920, RU864, CN470, CN779, EU433).

Sources

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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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Call it yourself

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This rate limit
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/the-things-network-rate-limits"
All rate limits
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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