Package
express-rate-limit
Basic IP rate-limiting middleware for Express. Use to limit repeated requests to public APIs and/or endpoints such as password reset.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 45.1m
- +514% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 2
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 27 days ago
- v8.7.0
- GitHub stars
- 3.3k
- 258 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 3 / 3
- Contributors
- 82
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 126
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
45,050,423 downloads last week, 221,515,070 in the last month. The 12-month change of +514% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 17124 in total
- Latest version
- 8.7.0, 29 Aug 202627 days ago
- First published
- 11 Dec 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 7 Sept 202617 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 3
- Open pull requests
- 3
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 126
- Dependents on npm
- 2,744
Major versions
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 15 Jul 2025
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 12 Sept 2023
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 24 Dec 2021
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 8 Jun 2019
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 21 May 2019
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 21 Aug 2018
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 29 Sept 2015
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 11 Dec 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 8.7.0 | 29 Aug 2026 |
| 8.6.2 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| 8.6.1 | 26 Jul 2026 |
| 8.6.0 | 16 Jul 2026 |
| 8.5.2 | 14 May 2026 |
| 8.5.1 | 6 May 2026 |
| 8.5.0 | 4 May 2026 |
| 8.4.1 | 24 Apr 2026 |
| 8.4.0 | 23 Apr 2026 |
| 8.3.2 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| 8.3.1 | 9 Mar 2026 |
| 8.0.2 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| 8.2.2 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| 8.1.1 | 5 Mar 2026 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >= 16
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 151 kB
- Dependencies (2)
debugip-address- Peer dependencies (1)
express
npm install express-rate-limitCDN
jsDelivr: 682.9k requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/express-rate-limit@8.7.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/express-rate-limit@8.7.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/express-rate-limit@8.7.0
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rate-limiter-flexible | 2m | - | 7 days ago | CommonJS | express-rate-limit vs rate-limiter-flexible |
| corser | 5.1m | - | 10 years ago | CommonJS | - |
| cors | 58m | - | 8 months ago | CommonJS | - |
Indexability: Indexed.