Spring Framework · Rate Limits

Spring Rate Limits

Spring Framework is a self-hosted open-source library, not a hosted API service. There is no provider-imposed rate limit on Spring itself — any throttling, quota, or back-pressure exists in the application built with Spring (e.g. via Spring Cloud Gateway, Bucket4j, Resilience4j) and is the application owner's responsibility.

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Limits

Application-Defined application

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defined by the application built on Spring

Spring exposes no global throughput cap; teams add limits with Spring Cloud Gateway request-rate filters, Bucket4j, Resilience4j, or reverse-proxy throttling.

Policies

Self-Hosted Throttling

Spring applications implement their own rate limiting. Common patterns are Spring Cloud Gateway's RequestRateLimiter (Redis-backed), Bucket4j with token-bucket semantics, and Resilience4j RateLimiter decorators on service methods.

Sources

https://spring.io/
https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/