Alternative review

ratelimit alternatives

Packages below are ranked as alternatives in the same category. The trigger for this review is limited recent repository activity.

Why review alternatives

ratelimit currently has a maintenance score of 27/100.

Latest repository activity: 2 years ago.

Known Go vulnerability records: 0.

Current package

ratelimit

A Go blocking leaky-bucket rate limit implementation

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

Ranked Alternatives

Go Rate Limiting Libraries

#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

How to use this page

Treat alternatives as a shortlist. Check API compatibility, migration effort, project constraints, and your own threat model before replacing a dependency.