Rate limits

Lift Wing endpoints are limited to these request rates.

API requests without an access token are limited to 50,000 requests per hour per IP address.

API requests with an access token are limited to 100,000 requests per hour per IP address. This needs a OAuth token set with the same limit, please check the docs on Wikitech for more info.

For API tokens used by Wikimedia Enterprise, requests with are limited to 200,000 requests per hour per IP address. This needs a OAuth token set with the same limit, please check the docs on Wikitech for more info.

Starting in April 2026, new rate limits will apply as part of introducing rate limits for all Wikimedia APIs. These new rate limits are the same or higher than the existing rate limits, so they should not cause any change in API behavior.

API requests without an access token are limited to 50,000 requests per hour and 15 requests per second per IP address.

API requests from a browser are limited to 50,000 requests per hour and 50 requests per second per IP address or per OAuth token.

Authenticated requests are limited to 100,000 requests per hour and 100 requests per second per OAuth token or session cookie.

A higher rate limit of 200,000 requests per hour and 200 requests per second is available to requests from:

• clients hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services
• bots approved by a Wikimedia project
• clients known to the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikimedia Enterprise