diff --git a/gracedb/throttles.py b/gracedb/throttles.py
index 597db4b738f84a73787b040df7d802ec5857571c..6c9e5749d762f08efda02cb1018d0e5bcaa960f6 100644
--- a/gracedb/throttles.py
+++ b/gracedb/throttles.py
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ class PostOrPutUserRateThrottle(UserRateThrottle):
         This is mostly copied from the Rest Framework's SimpleRateThrottle
         except we now pass the request to throttle_success
         """
+        # We don't want to throttle any safe methods
+        if request.method not in ['POST', 'PUT']:
+            return True
+
         if self.rate is None:
             return True