Disable rate limiter in Laravel?

In app/Http/Kernel.php Laravel has a default throttle limit for all api routes.

protected $middlewareGroups = [
    ...
    'api' => [
        'throttle:60,1',
    ],
];

Comment or increase it.

You can use cache:clear command to clear your cache including your rate limits, like so:

php artisan cache:clear

Assuming you are using the API routes then you can change the throttle in app/Http/Kernel.php or take it off entirely. If you need to throttle for the other routes you can register the middleware for them separately.

(example below: throttle - 60 attempts then locked out for 1 minute)

'api' => [
        'throttle:60,1',
        'bindings',
    ],

You can actually disable only a certain middleware in tests.

use Illuminate\Routing\Middleware\ThrottleRequests;

class YourTest extends TestCase 
{

    protected function setUp()
    {
        parent::setUp();
        $this->withoutMiddleware(
            ThrottleRequests::class
        );
    }
    ...
}