Youtube · Rate Limits
Youtube Rate Limits
YouTube (Google) rate limits are per-service. Each service publishes its own quotas and request rate limits.
Youtube Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Youtube on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.
The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and throttledLegacy.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Video Platform, and Cloud.
2 Limits
Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingVideo PlatformCloud
Limits
Per-service quotas account/region/service
see service-specific quotas page
Most services have account-level + per-region quotas + soft/hard limits.
Throttling account/region/service
service-specific TPS / RPM
Backoff with exponential retry per AWS/GCP/Azure SDK best practices.
Policies
Soft vs hard limits
Soft limits can be raised via support tickets; hard limits cannot.
Exponential backoff
Standard SDK retry behavior with jitter.
Per-region scoping
Most quotas are per-region per-service per-account.
Sources
Work with this as data
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.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
This rate limit
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/youtube-rate-limits"
All rate limits
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