# Rate limits for API users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328 "2017-05-24T23:58:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 3:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/10 "2020-03-16T03:56:21Z")

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These days we have explicit global limits for API, however sometimes limits cascade.

Certain controllers introduce limits, like maximum number of topics you can create per N seconds and so on.

For trivial get requests you could lift the api rate limit way up and not hit any limits from Discourse. There are still some limits in NGINX you would have to tweak.

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