Audius · Rate Limits

Audius Rate Limits

Audius hosts apply rate limits at the discovery-node level to prevent abuse, but the network is decentralized and individual host operators set their own thresholds. There is no documented global rate limit. Clients are encouraged to send an app-name header for attribution.

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Limits

Per discovery node host
requests
host-defined
Each network node sets its own limits.

Policies

App Name Header
Send the app_name query parameter on every request for attribution and to reduce throttling risk.
Host Rotation
Use the SDK or /health-check to rotate across discovery nodes.

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