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: Linode (Akamai Cloud)
providerId: linode
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
modified: '2026-09-17'
source: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/rate-limits
docs: https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/rate-limits
note: 'Replaces a 2026-05-04 generated artifact that recorded an 800-requests-per-2-minutes default. Akamai''s published
  rate-limit page (page updatedAt 2026-09-15) states a different and more granular model: 200/min for paginated
  GET collections, 1600/min for everything else, plus per-operation limits. The old figure is not in the provider''s
  documentation.'
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Cloud Compute
description: Published Linode API v4 rate limits, applied per user by OAuth token, or by IP address for public operations.
sources:
- https://techdocs.akamai.com/linode-api/reference/rate-limits
headers:
  limit: X-RateLimit-Limit
  remaining: X-RateLimit-Remaining
  reset: X-RateLimit-Reset
  retryAfter: Retry-After
  note: Akamai states some or all of these headers may be present depending on the operation; X-RateLimit-Reset
    is documented as absent on POST /monitor/services/{service_type}/metrics.
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Paginated GET collections (default)
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 200
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  note: Applies to GET operations returning paginated data collections unless a specific limit below overrides it.
- name: All other operations (default)
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 1600
  timeFrame: 1 minute
- name: Create a Linode
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_15s
  limit: 20
  timeFrame: 15 seconds
  operations:
  - post-linode-instance
- name: List images
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 20
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - get-images
- name: List StackScripts
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 60
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - get-stack-scripts
- name: Statistics operations
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 50
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - get-linode-stats
  - get-linode-stats-by-year-month
  - get-node-balancer-stats
  - get-managed-stats
- name: Create a volume
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 100
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - post-volume
- name: Accept a service transfer
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 2
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - post-accept-service-transfer
- name: Open a support ticket
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 2
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - post-ticket
- name: Cloud Pulse metrics catalog (GET)
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 100
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - get-dashboards-all
  - get-dashboards-by-id
  - get-monitor-services
  - get-monitor-services-for-service-type
  - get-dashboards
  - get-monitor-information
- name: Read an entity's metrics
  scope: account
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 300
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  operations:
  - post-read-metric
  note: Per account, per service type, shared across all users on the account.
- name: Object Storage key and bucket writes
  scope: user
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 60
  burst: 5
  timeFrame: 1 minute
  concurrency: 2
  operations:
  - post-object-storage-keys
  - put-object-storage-key
  - delete-object-storage-key
  - post-object-storage-bucket
  note: 60/min and 5/second, with a concurrency limit of 2. All other Object Storage operations have a concurrency
    limit of 1.
limit_count: 12