name: Cloudflare API Rate Limits
specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Cloudflare
providerId: cloudflare
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - CDN
  - Edge
description: Cloudflare global API limit + per-product limits.
sources:
  - https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/reference/limits/
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Global REST API
    scope: user/account
    metric: requests_per_5min
    limit: 1200
    timeFrame: 5 minutes
  - name: GraphQL Analytics
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 300
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Workers KV writes
    scope: key
    metric: writes_per_second
    limit: 1
    timeFrame: second per key
  - name: Workers Subrequests (Free)
    scope: request
    metric: subrequests
    limit: 50
    timeFrame: request
  - name: Workers Subrequests (Paid)
    scope: request
    metric: subrequests
    limit: 1000
    timeFrame: request
policies:
  - name: Per-zone billing
    description: Paid plans bill per zone, not per account.
  - name: Per-product limits
    description: Workers, R2, D1, KV, Stream, Images each have own limits.