Note

Starting April 1, 2025, all users with a Pro, Team, or Business subscription will have unlimited Docker Hub pulls with fair use. Unauthenticated users and users with a free Personal account have the following pull limits:

• Unauthenticated users: 10 pulls/hour
• Authenticated users with a free account: 100 pulls/hour

The following table provides an overview of the included usage and limits for each user type, subject to fair use:

For more details, see the following:

When utilizing the Docker Platform, users should be aware that excessive data transfer, pull rates, or data storage can lead to throttling, or additional charges. To ensure fair resource usage and maintain service quality, we reserve the right to impose restrictions or apply additional charges to accounts exhibiting excessive data and storage consumption.

Abuse rate limit

Docker Hub has an abuse rate limit to protect the application and infrastructure. This limit applies to all requests to Hub properties including web pages, APIs, and image pulls. The limit is applied per IPv4 address or per IPv6 /64 subnet, and while the limit changes over time depending on load and other factors, it's in the order of thousands of requests per minute. The abuse limit applies to all users equally regardless of account level.

You can differentiate between the pull rate limit and abuse rate limit by looking at the error code. The abuse limit returns a simple 429 Too Many Requests response. The pull limit returns a longer error message that includes a link to documentation.