diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index d3aa0b2953a0..a99803e1bc4d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -8744,6 +8744,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
+ "tokio-util",
  "tower 0.4.13",
  "tower-http",
  "tracing",
diff --git a/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/Cargo.toml b/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/Cargo.toml
index cc72c2ebf92e..b9b511a078bc 100644
--- a/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/Cargo.toml
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ metrics.workspace = true
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
 thiserror.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true
+tokio-util = { workspace = true }
+tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 reth-chainspec.workspace = true
diff --git a/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/lib.rs b/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/lib.rs
index 72b53efe674c..ceafe206531a 100644
--- a/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/lib.rs
@@ -226,6 +226,9 @@ pub use eth::EthHandlers;
 mod metrics;
 pub use metrics::{MeteredRequestFuture, RpcRequestMetricsService};
 
+// Rpc rate limiter
+pub mod rate_limiter;
+
 /// Convenience function for starting a server in one step.
 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 pub async fn launch<Provider, Pool, Network, Tasks, Events, EvmConfig, EthApi, BlockExecutor>(
diff --git a/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/rate_limiter.rs b/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/rate_limiter.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85df0eee61c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/crates/rpc/rpc-builder/src/rate_limiter.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+//! [`jsonrpsee`] helper layer for rate limiting certain methods.
+
+use jsonrpsee::{server::middleware::rpc::RpcServiceT, types::Request, MethodResponse};
+use std::{
+    future::Future,
+    pin::Pin,
+    sync::Arc,
+    task::{ready, Context, Poll},
+};
+use tokio::sync::{OwnedSemaphorePermit, Semaphore};
+use tokio_util::sync::PollSemaphore;
+use tower::Layer;
+
+/// Rate limiter for the RPC server.
+///
+/// Rate limits expensive calls such as debug_ and trace_.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct RpcRequestRateLimiter {
+    inner: Arc<RpcRequestRateLimiterInner>,
+}
+
+impl RpcRequestRateLimiter {
+    /// Create a new rate limit layer with the given number of permits.
+    pub fn new(rate_limit: usize) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            inner: Arc::new(RpcRequestRateLimiterInner {
+                call_guard: PollSemaphore::new(Arc::new(Semaphore::new(rate_limit))),
+            }),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<S> Layer<S> for RpcRequestRateLimiter {
+    type Service = RpcRequestRateLimitingService<S>;
+
+    fn layer(&self, inner: S) -> Self::Service {
+        RpcRequestRateLimitingService::new(inner, self.clone())
+    }
+}
+
+/// Rate Limiter for the RPC server
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+struct RpcRequestRateLimiterInner {
+    /// Semaphore to rate limit calls
+    call_guard: PollSemaphore,
+}
+
+/// A [`RpcServiceT`] middleware that rate limits RPC calls to the server.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct RpcRequestRateLimitingService<S> {
+    /// The rate limiter for RPC requests
+    rate_limiter: RpcRequestRateLimiter,
+    /// The inner service being wrapped
+    inner: S,
+}
+
+impl<S> RpcRequestRateLimitingService<S> {
+    /// Create a new rate limited service.
+    pub const fn new(service: S, rate_limiter: RpcRequestRateLimiter) -> Self {
+        Self { inner: service, rate_limiter }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<'a, S> RpcServiceT<'a> for RpcRequestRateLimitingService<S>
+where
+    S: RpcServiceT<'a> + Send + Sync + Clone + 'static,
+{
+    type Future = RateLimitingRequestFuture<S::Future>;
+
+    fn call(&self, req: Request<'a>) -> Self::Future {
+        let method_name = req.method_name();
+        if method_name.starts_with("trace_") || method_name.starts_with("debug_") {
+            RateLimitingRequestFuture {
+                fut: self.inner.call(req),
+                guard: Some(self.rate_limiter.inner.call_guard.clone()),
+                permit: None,
+            }
+        } else {
+            // if we don't need to rate limit, then there
+            // is no need to get a semaphore permit
+            RateLimitingRequestFuture { fut: self.inner.call(req), guard: None, permit: None }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Response future.
+#[pin_project::pin_project]
+pub struct RateLimitingRequestFuture<F> {
+    #[pin]
+    fut: F,
+    guard: Option<PollSemaphore>,
+    permit: Option<OwnedSemaphorePermit>,
+}
+
+impl<F> std::fmt::Debug for RateLimitingRequestFuture<F> {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.write_str("RateLimitingRequestFuture")
+    }
+}
+
+impl<F: Future<Output = MethodResponse>> Future for RateLimitingRequestFuture<F> {
+    type Output = F::Output;
+
+    fn poll(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Self::Output> {
+        let this = self.project();
+        if let Some(guard) = this.guard.as_mut() {
+            *this.permit = ready!(guard.poll_acquire(cx));
+            *this.guard = None;
+        }
+        let res = this.fut.poll(cx);
+        if res.is_ready() {
+            *this.permit = None;
+        }
+        res
+    }
+}