stefanprodan/AspNetCoreRateLimit

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AspNetCoreRateLimit is an ASP.NET Core rate limiting middleware library for controlling how many requests clients can make to a Web API or MVC app. It supports IP-based and client-ID-based limits with per-URL and per-HTTP-verb scoping, configurable intervals, and runtime rule updates.

Use cases

• throttle requests to an ASP.NET Core Web API by IP address
• limit API calls per client ID or API key
• apply different rate limits per endpoint or HTTP verb
• prevent API abuse and brute-force attacks on MVC apps
• update rate limit rules at runtime without redeploying
• distribute rate limit counters across servers with Redis

When to choose

• you run an ASP.NET Core API and need fine-grained IP or client-based throttling
• you want configurable, runtime-updatable rate limit rules
• you need per-endpoint or per-verb quota scoping

When to avoid

• you are on .NET 7+ and only need basic rate limiting, since built-in middleware now exists
• your stack is not ASP.NET Core
• you need advanced distributed rate limiting beyond the Redis package's capabilities

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

rate-limiting middleware web-framework web-development backend apis security dotnet cross-platform asp-net-core nuget api-throttling ip-rate-limiting client-rate-limiting web-server

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