# 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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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 6:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/12 "2020-03-17T06:08:26Z")

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I recommend reading through our rate limits here:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/1f34f653bfb6ccb39a4f4f8085b07e9d94389e6f/config/discourse_defaults.conf#L200-L216>

We should have documentation for various other limits floating around meta.

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