# 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") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 13
### Author: ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ) #### Post date: [March 17, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/13 "2020-03-17T20:14:04Z")
Thanks Sam, so for future reference (and anyone else searching for this in future) here are the full details: > [@Available settings for global rate limits and throttling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-rate-limits-and-throttling-in-discourse/78612): > > Discourse ships with 3 different global rate limits that can be configured by site admins. Global per-ip rate limits These limits apply to every unique IP address that hits the Discourse application. (files that are served directly from the filesystem or the CDN are excluded) By default this rate limit is enabled, you may disable it or set it to a reporting mode. DISCOURSE\_MAX\_REQS\_PER\_IP\_MODE : default block, this rate limit applies out of the box. (other options are warn, warn+block, and n… _I have a question about private IPs but I’ll post in the main topic. This one can probably be closed at this point as that other topic is newer._ --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328)._