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Rate limit policy

For managed service

The SuperTokens core is rate limited on a per app and per IP address basis. This means that if query the core for app1 using the same IP address very quickly, the rate limit will kick in and you will get a 429 status code back from the core. However, if you query the core using different IP addresses or for a different app, the rate limit of that won't interfere with the previous requests (that had another IP or was for another app).

note

To know more about rps and bursts, please this nginx document.

Free tier

The free tier of the managed service has a rate limit of 50 requests per second with a burst of 50 requests per second (with nodelay). This should be enough for 5-10 concurrent sign in / up (each sign in API call queries the SuperTokens core multiple times).

important

Our backend SDK auto retries if it gets a 429 status code from the core (up to 5 times before throwing an error).

Paying users

If you are a paying user for SuperTokens, the rate limit and the burst limit is set dynamically based on your usage (with a minimum of a 100rps). You should not see any 429s unless there is a very significant spike in requests.

Paid Feature

If you want higher rate limits, please email us, requesting a higher rate limit.

Special case

The /hello API exposed by the core is commonly used for health checks. This API does not require any API key, and has it's own rate limit of 5 requests per second per app (regardless of the IP address querying it). This is independent to the rate limit described above, and cannot change.

For self hosted

The SuperTokens core has no rate limit other than for the /hello API (which is 5 requests per second per app). You are free to add rate limits to the core by using a reverse proxy like Nginx.

If you want to implement rate limiting policy similar to our managed service described above, add the following to your http and server block in the nginx.conf file:

http {
    # other configs..
    
    map $request_uri $limit_req_zone_key {
        "~^/(appId|appid)-(\w+)/?" $binary_remote_addr:$2;
        default $binary_remote_addr;
    }

    limit_req_zone $limit_req_zone_key zone=mylimit:10m rate50/s;
    limit_req_status 429;

    # other configs..

    upstream supertokens {
        server localhost:3567;
    }

    server {
        limit_req zone=mylimit burst=50 nodelay;

        # other configs..

        listen 0.0.0.0:80;

        location / {
            proxy_pass http://supertokens;
        }
    }
}

In the above, we add rate limit per app per IP address to the core.