Rate Limits - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>The API is rate-limited in order to prevent abuse and protect our origins from attack. Rate limiting is performed on a per-IP basis.</p><p>Exceeding the following rate limits will result in a temporary block, during which the service will respond with <strong>HTTP 429 Too Many Requests</strong>. The block will lift automatically after <strong>1 minute</strong>.</p><h2 data-id="get-requests">GET requests</h2><p>These types of requests are limited to <strong>300 requests</strong> per <strong>1 minute</strong>, per IP.</p><h2 data-id="post-put-patch-delete-requests">POST / PUT / PATCH / DELETE requests</h2><p>These types of requests are limited to <strong>120 requests</strong> per <strong>1 minute</strong>, per IP.</p><h2 data-id="hard-limits">Hard Limits</h2><p>If you send more than 250 requests within 10 seconds, your IP may become blocked and require manual intervention by Vanilla Support in order to remove the block.</p> </article> </main>