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Best Go Rate Limiting Libraries

Compare go rate limiting libraries by maintenance, adoption, security, release activity, and Go ecosystem usage. Top packages in this group include go-limiter, httprate, httprl.

Best overall

go-limiter

Highest combined package health score.

Best maintained

caddy-waf

Strongest maintenance signal in this category.

Most adopted

v3

Highest adoption signal from stars, forks, and imported-by data.

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Ranked Packages

9 packages

#1 go-limiter

Package limiter defines rate limiting systems.

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 716 stars 66 imported-by 60% confidence

#2 httprate

net/http rate limiter middleware

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 458 stars 256 imported-by 95% confidence

#3 httprl

Package httprl provides a rate limiter for http servers.

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 5 stars 56 imported-by 95% confidence

#4 v3

Dead simple rate limit middleware for Go.

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 2.3K stars 341 imported-by 95% confidence

#5 caddy-waf

Caddy WAF (Regex Rules, IP and DNS filtering, Rate Limiting, GeoIP, Tor, Anomaly Detection)

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 774 stars 0 imported-by 40% confidence

#6 ratelimit

A Go blocking leaky-bucket rate limit implementation

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 4.7K stars 984 imported-by 95% confidence

#7 go-rate

Timed rate limiter for Go.

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 406 stars 74 imported-by 100% confidence

#8 gubernator

Package gubernator is a reverse proxy.

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 959 stars 0 imported-by 60% confidence

#9 flowrate

Package flowrate provides the tools for monitoring and limiting the flow rate of an arbitrary data stream.

Go Rate Limiting Libraries 96 stars 0 imported-by 75% confidence

Comparison Matrix

score dimensions

Package	Health	Maintenance	Adoption	Security	Imported by
go-limiter	82	68	93	92	66
httprate	81	61	97	92	256
httprl	78	83	45	92	56
v3	77	38	100	92	341
caddy-waf	75	95	61	70	0
ratelimit	71	27	100	92	984
go-rate	68	15	96	92	74
gubernator	53	12	67	70	0
flowrate	49	15	44	70	0

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