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# Pinata rate limits and plan limits

> Reference for Pinata API rate limits, gateway request caps, and storage allowances across Free, Picnic, Fiesta, and Enterprise plans.

The Private IPFS API and IPFS API have variying limits that users should be aware of.

## API Limits

API rate limits on both the Private IPFS API and IPFS API are currently determined by plan type:

| Plan       | Rate Limit              |
| ---------- | ----------------------- |
| Free       | 60 requests per minute  |
| Picnic     | 250 requests per minute |
| Fiesta     | 500 requests per minute |
| Enterprise | 100 requests per second |

### Exceptions

The following API calls have increased rate limits:

* Endpoints under `api.pinata.cloud/data/` have a rate limit of 30 requests per minute
* The [Pinning Services API endpoint for listing content](/api-reference/pinning-service-api) has a rate limit of 30 requests per minute

## File Restrictions

HTML files can be uploaded on any plan, but can only be retrieved through a Dedicated Gateway with a [Custom Domain](gateways/dedicated-ipfs-gateways).

Binary files are only allowed on a case by case basis, please contact [team@pinata.cloud](mailto:team@pinata.cloud) for assistance.

## Gateway Rate Limits

At this time there are currently no rate limits for users retrieving content from a dedicated gateway.

## Upload Size Limits

There differing limits on file sizes between the Private IPFS API and IPFS API

### Private IPFS API

Files that are over **100MB** will require using [resumable uploads](/files/uploading-files#resumable-uploads) to complete. If you are using the SDK and the method `upload.file()` this will be handled automatically.

Beyond 100MB the max file size is **25GB** at this time.

### IPFS API

<Warning>
  While the upload limit is 25GB we would recommend only uploading up to 15GB per file/folder for reliability reasons. We can try to assist uploads 15GB-25GB but we cannot guarantee success at this time.
</Warning>

There is no aggregate limit for uploads, but each individual upload (whether it is a file or a folder) is limited to **25 GB**.

There is also a file limit size of **10MB** for the pinJSONToIPFS API endpoint.