The Pinata platform currently has the following rate limits in place:

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File Restrictions

HTML uploads are currently only available on paid plans with granted access. If you are on a paid plan and wish to upload HTML please send a request through our support chat or send an email to [email protected]

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API Rate Limits

The Pinata API currently has a rate limit of 180 requests per minute to our API.

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Exceptions

The following API calls have increased rate limits:

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Recommendations

For users with traffic that can be burst-heavy, we recommend using a task scheduler or queue-based upload approach that limits requests to the allowed amount.

For NodeJS users specifically, we recommend the bottleneck library to help with this.

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Gateway Rate Limits

At this time there are currently no rate limits for users retrieving content from a dedicated gateway.

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Upload Size Limits

While the upload limit is 25GB we would recommend only uploading up to 15GB per file/folder for reliability reasons. We can try to assist uploads 15GB-25GB but we cannot guarantee success at this time.

There is no aggregate limit for uploads, but each individual upload (whether it is a file or a folder) is limited to 25 GB.

There is also a file limit size of 10MB for the pinJSONToIPFS API endpoint.