Ghost · Rate Limits

Ghost Rate Limits

Rate limits depend on the deployment model — Ghost(Pro) hosted vs. self-hosted.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
PublishingOpen SourceRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Content API requests site
requests
cacheable_no_published_throttle
Read-only Content API is intended to be fully cacheable.
Admin API JWT lifetime token
seconds
300
JWTs derived from the admin API key expire after 5 minutes.
Self-hosted limits deployment
requests
deployment_dependent
Bounded by the operator's web server / reverse proxy configuration.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor Retry-After when present and apply exponential backoff with jitter.
Cache Aggressively
Front the Content API with a CDN; responses are cache-friendly.

Sources