Cloudflare Rate Limit Review
Cloudflare Rate Limit Review: WAF, Workers, 429 — Reviews a rate-limiting setup on Cloudflare (a WAF rate limiting rule, a Workers Rate Limiting binding, or a counter in your own code) and lists every reason it will not limit what its author thinks it limits. It flags free-plan rules that use the client address or a header field, which the plan refuses, windows the plan does not offer, an address key for callers that are themselves Workers and share one outbound address, a binding number treate…
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/cf-rate-limit-design/file
| Category | Code and developer |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api.aiskills402.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 2 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.03 | 381 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"headers": {
"additionalProperties": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "object"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET",
"HEAD"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}