Limiter vs Tollbooth

Limiter

Dead simple rate limit middleware for Go. (by ulule)

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Tollbooth

Simple middleware to rate-limit HTTP requests. (by didip)

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Limiter		Tollbooth
	Project
2	Mentions	3
1,944	Stars	2,582
2.1%	Growth	-
5.2	Activity	0.0
7 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Limiter

Posts with mentions or reviews of Limiter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-02.

Goralim – A rate limiting package for Go to handle distributed workloads
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024

Fun weekend project but definitely not production-ready (no tests, no error handling, etc.). If readers are looking for something production-ready to use, consider https://github.com/go-redis/redis_rate (which implements GCRA/leaky bucket), or https://github.com/ulule/limiter (which uses a much simpler algorithm, but has good middleware).

Tollbooth

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tollbooth. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-10.

Rate limiting in Go microservice based app
1 project | /r/golang | 23 Jan 2023
Limit Max Number of Requests Per Hour with `didip/tollbooth`
1 project | /r/golang | 21 Aug 2022

I'm new to rate limiting and want to use `https://github.com/didip/tollbooth` to limit HTTP requests.I also read the Token Algorithm page on Wikipedia.
Code review
5 projects | /r/golang | 10 Nov 2021

Basically it's a thin http proxy utilizing tollbooth to do rate limiting.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Limiter and Tollbooth you can also consider the following projects:

Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

mux - A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

easy-middleware - easy-middleware is a lightweight json middleware stack for Go >= 1.7.

Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

Iris - The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket:

GoSwagger - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go

formjson - Go net/http handler to transparently manage posted JSON

XFF - A Golang Middleware to handle X-Forwarded-For Header

Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework