Fair usage policy

New free tier limits from 1 January 2027

The free tier limits on this page start on 1 January 2027 (00:00 UTC). Until then the free tier keeps 200k requests or 5 GB a day per IP and site and 60 req/s per IP, with no separate limit for bot traffic, and MainNet time travel stays free.

General

• Node & Indexer APIs are FREE!
• No tokens, no setup, no surprises
• Free tier provides vanilla flavor API only - so you can easily migrate to your own
• Time travel (state at past rounds) is free on testnet; mainnet history needs a paid plan
• Please mention using Nodely on your project site when doing > 1M requests monthly
• Both front-end & back-end traffic is subject to daily quota restrictions.
• IPFS gateway traffic is counted towards daily quota along with all other APIs
• Need more? The Boost and Unlimited plans add API tokens, usage analytics and higher request rates; Unlimited also drops the daily quota.

Tip

Public good projects can apply for ability to go above free tier.
See public goods projects tier.

Free tier limits

Please observe the following limits. Nodely reserves the right to start rejecting requests once daily quota is exceeded.
Projects can can check the dashboard to see the quota status.

Daily quotas count per UTC day and reset at 00:00 UTC.

Per project / site

• Up to 128k requests per day (about 3.8M per month)
• 1000 requests/s per site across all free tier regions
• 2 GB worth of responses per day (about 60 GB per month)

Per individual user / browser (ext. IP address)

• 30 requests/s, 10 concurrent calls
• 5 requests/s for bot traffic: requests without a browser Referer or Origin (backends, scripts, bots)
• 18 transaction POSTs per second
• 128k requests or 2 GB worth of responses per day

Caution

• Free endpoints add artificial 150ms (250ms for archival) delay for requests.
• Doing above 1MM requests monthly ? Mention Nodely on your project site.

Exceeding limits

Realtime requests

For requests that exceed per second or concurrency limits the API will return HTTP 429 code. Please use exponential backoff after receiving 429 response.

Daily quotas

API edges refresh quota usage about every 30 seconds, from usage data that runs a few minutes behind. As an IP address or a site gets close to its daily quota, a growing share of its requests is rejected at random. Once the quota is used up, all of them are rejected until 00:00 UTC.

You can expect :

HTTP result	when
429	you exceeded number of requests/s
429	you exceeded number of requests in flight
403 Daily free API quota exceeded	you are close to or over the daily byte or request quota

Caution

Failed requests count as requests towards quota

See quotas and rate limits for the paid plans.