Package
rate-limiter-flexible
Node.js atomic and non-atomic counters, rate limiting tools, protection from DoS and brute-force attacks at scale
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 2m
- +95% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 7 days ago
- v11.2.1
- GitHub stars
- 3.6k
- 195 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 7 / 2
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 124
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
2,047,800 downloads last week, 10,468,671 in the last month. The 12-month change of +95% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 19196 in total
- Latest version
- 11.2.1, 17 Sept 20267 days ago
- First published
- 6 May 2018
- Last push to GitHub
- 17 Sept 20267 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 7
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 124
- Dependents on npm
- 501
Major versions
- v11 first release 11.0.0, 3 Apr 2026
- v10 first release 10.0.0, 14 Mar 2026
- v9 first release 9.0.0, 29 Nov 2025
- v8 first release 8.0.0, 25 Sept 2025
- v7 first release 7.0.0, 5 Apr 2025
- v6 first release 6.0.0, 12 Mar 2025
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 15 Feb 2024
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 16 Dec 2023
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 29 Aug 2023
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 9 Feb 2020
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 20 Apr 2019
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 6 May 2018
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 11.2.1 | 17 Sept 2026 |
| 11.2.0 | 8 Jun 2026 |
| 11.1.1 | 5 Jun 2026 |
| 11.1.0 | 6 May 2026 |
| 11.0.2 | 2 May 2026 |
| 11.0.1 | 18 Apr 2026 |
| 11.0.0 | 3 Apr 2026 |
| 10.0.1 | 15 Mar 2026 |
| 10.0.0 | 14 Mar 2026 |
| 9.1.1 | 7 Feb 2026 |
| 9.1.0 | 1 Feb 2026 |
| 9.0.1 | 13 Dec 2025 |
| 9.0.0 | 29 Nov 2025 |
| 8.3.0 | 23 Nov 2025 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 225 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install rate-limiter-flexible- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/rate-limiter-flexible@11.2.1/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/rate-limiter-flexible@11.2.1/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/rate-limiter-flexible@11.2.1
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Indexability: Indexed.