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Rate limiting

Rate limiting skips excess Inngest function runs instead of queuing them. Use it only when discarded work is acceptable; use throttling when every event must run.

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Syntax

rateLimit: { limit: number, period: duration, key?: string }

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  • Throttling
  • Step concurrency
  • Idempotency
  • Generic Cell Rate Algorithm

Source: Rate limiting. Checked 2026-11-03.