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: Cogent Communications
providerId: cogent-communications
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-14'
# 2026-09-14: the previous version of this file carried one placeholder limit row
# ("see vendor documentation (gated)") written by the 2026-05-04 bulk sweep. Cogent
# publishes no API at all, so there is no rate limit to record and the placeholder has
# been removed rather than left to read as a measured limit. An honest zero is the data.
method: searched
source: https://www.cogentco.com/en/products-and-services
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Internet
  - Network
description: >-
  Cogent Communications publishes no public API and therefore publishes no API rate limits.
  A full probe on 2026-09-14 of www.cogentco.com, cogentco.com, ecogent.cogentco.com and
  globalpeerexchange.com found no OpenAPI, no developer portal and no API reference of any
  kind; api.cogentco.com and developer.cogentco.com do not resolve in DNS. Cogent's
  quantitative service commitments are network-level (latency, jitter, packet delivery,
  availability credits) and live in the Network Services SLA, not in a per-key API quota.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
responseCodes: {}
headers: []
policies: []
evidence:
  - {url: 'https://www.cogentco.com/openapi.json', status: 404, fetched: '2026-09-14'}
  - {url: 'https://www.cogentco.com/api-docs', status: 404, fetched: '2026-09-14'}
  - {url: 'https://developer.cogentco.com/', status: 0, note: 'NXDOMAIN', fetched: '2026-09-14'}
related:
  - lifecycle/cogent-communications-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com