# Rate Limiting Plugin (EE)

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-ee/68>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [November 28, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-ee/68 "2017-11-28T18:21:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![CaesarKing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/caesarking/32/36_2.png) [@CaesarKing](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/CaesarKing)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2017, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-ee/68/1 "2017-11-28T18:21:49Z")

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The Rate Limiting plugin for Kong Enterprise Edition is a re-engineered version of the incredibly popular Community Edition Rate Limiting plugin, with enhanced configuration options and performance.

This plugin is exclusively available to [Kong Enterprise](https://konghq.com/kong-enterprise-edition/) subscribers.

[Rate Limiting plugin documentation](https://getkong.org/plugins/ee-rate-limiting/)

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**Author:** ![Yuval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/977dab/32.png) [@Yuval](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Yuval)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-ee/68/2 "2017-12-31T11:36:37Z")

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Where are the EE rate limiting documentation? Why are these available to EE users only? I want to see the difference in order to understand if EE rate limiting, fulfil our requirements?

Specifically, we need weekly rate limiting…

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**Author:** ![Cooper](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/cooper/32/9_2.png) [@Cooper](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/Cooper)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 8:54pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-ee/68/3 "2018-01-05T20:54:00Z")

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EE Rate Limiting documentation is currently available only to Kong EE subscribers. Please [contact us](https://konghq.com/request-demo/) to explore becoming a Kong EE subscriber.

Additional features available in EE Rate Limiting include:

- Airbitrary window sizes - not just “per minute” or “per hour”
- Configurable sync rate with the datastore - to permit tuning of consistency vs. performance

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**Author:** ![thibaultcha](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/thibaultcha/32/340_2.png) [@thibaultcha](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/thibaultcha)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/rate-limiting-plugin-ee/68/4 "2018-01-05T21:38:24Z")

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@Yuval You may be interested in reading one of our recent blog posts: [How to Design a Scalable Rate Limiting Algorithm](https://konghq.com/blog/how-to-design-a-scalable-rate-limiting-algorithm/), which explores the rate limiting approach taken by the EE rate limiting plugin.

The end of the article briefly explains some other added benefits.