Technical Limits (legacy November 2024) | Documentation

We enforce technical limits to ensure the shared-service infrastructure functions without interruption. Only use Contentful software and services if you agree with the technical limits outlined below. These limits apply solely to current plans. Plans introduced before February 1st, 2023 are subject to the legacy technical limits (Technical Limits legacy September 2022).

For an in-depth explanation of each plan, see our pricing page.

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Free plan

Organizations on the Free plan are subject to the following technical limits:

Metric	Plan limit	Unit of measure
Bulk Actions	200	Max of items per bulk action
Bulk Actions	5	Max active bulk actions. Number per space
Content Delivery API (CDA) calls (includes GraphQL calls)	55	Calls per second. Number per space
Content Management API (CMA) calls	7	Calls per second. Number per space
Content Preview API (CPA) calls	14	Calls per second. Number per space
Content types	25	Number per environment
Content type fields	50	Number of fields per content type
Environments	2	Number per space
Environment creation	12	Number per 5 minutes
Environment alias	1	Number per space
Users	5	Number per organization
Roles	4	Number per space
Spaces	1	Total number
Records	10000	Number per environment
API keys	100	Number per organization
Webhooks	20	Number per space
Locales	2	Number per environment
Request size	1	MB
GraphQL request size	8	KB
Response size	7	MB
URI request length	7600	characters
Image size	20	MB per image
Image size (pixels), for animated GIFs total pixels = width x height x number of frames	300	Megapixels
Image size (megapixels), for source images transformed into AVIF format	9	Megapixels
Asset or image filename length	256	Characters with extension
Asset size, including images larger than the image size limit	50	MB per asset
Entry size	2	MB
Long text field	50000	Characters per field
Short text field	256	Characters per field
Short text, list field	1000	Items per field
Rich Text field	200000	Characters per field (field size cannot exceed a payload of 1MB)
References, many field	1000	Linked entries per field
References, entry descendants	10	Levels deep
Scheduled actions	500	Number per space
Release	200	Number of entities or assets
Release actions	2	Number of release actions, per minute
Scheduled actions, scheduled time	200	Number of scheduled actions to be executed at, per minute
Scheduled release actions, scheduled time	2	Number of scheduled actions for releases, per minute
Scheduled action, maximum datetime	60	Months from time of creation
App Definitions	10	Number per organization
App Installations	10	Number per environment
App Access Grants	1000	Number per App Definition
Tags	1000	Number per environment
Tags	100	Number per asset or entry

Technical limits are cumulative and can be reset only when an organization’s users delete individual items.

If you require higher limits, consider upgrading to the Basic or Premium plan, which come with higher default limits. Plans using our dedicated infrastructure feature also offer the ability to customize the API call rate limits for your organization.

If your service usage exceeds the preceding limits, we reserve the right to take corrective action, including but not limited to the throttling of the service API, temporarily suspending or (when other options are unavailable) terminating your account.

Basic plan

Organizations on the Basic plan are subject to the following technical limits:

Metric	Plan limit	Unit of measure
Bulk Actions	200	Max of items per bulk action
Bulk Actions	5	Max active bulk actions. Number per space
Content Delivery API (CDA) calls (includes GraphQL calls)	78	Calls per second. Number per space
Content Management API (CMA) calls	10	Calls per second. Number per space
Content Preview API (CPA) calls	20	Calls per second. Number per space
Content types	50	Number per environment
Content type fields	50	Number of fields per content type
Environments	3	Number per space
Environment creation	12	Number per 5 minutes
Environment alias	1	Number per space
Users	20	Number per organization
Roles	4	Number per space
Spaces	custom	Total number
Records	50000	Number per environment
API keys	100	Number per organization
Webhooks	20	Number per space
Locales	4	Number per environment
Request size	1	MB
GraphQL request size	8	KB
Response size	7	MB
URI request length	7600	characters
Image size	20	MB per image
Image size (pixels), for animated GIFs total pixels = width x height x number of frames	300	Megapixels
Image size (megapixels), for source images transformed into AVIF format	9	Megapixels
Asset or image filename length	256	Characters with extension
Asset size, including images larger than the image size limit	1000	MB per asset
Entry size	2	MB
Long text field	50000	Characters per field
Short text field	256	Characters per field
Short text, list field	1,000	Items per field
Rich Text field	200,000	Characters per field (field size cannot exceed a payload of 1MB)
Entry links (reference, media and Rich Text fields)	1,000	Total number of links across all of the fields of an entry
Scheduled actions	500	Number per space
Release actions	2	Number of release actions, per minute
Release	200	Number of entities or assets
Scheduled actions, scheduled time	200	Number of scheduled actions to be executed at, per minute
Scheduled release actions, scheduled time	2	Number of scheduled actions for releases, per minute
Scheduled action, maximum datetime	60	Months from time of creation
App Definitions	250	Number per organization
App Installations	50	Number per environment
App Access Grants	1000	Number per App Definition
Tags	1000	Number per environment
Tags	100	Number per asset or entry

Technical limits are cumulative and can be reset only when an organization’s users delete individual items.

If you require higher limits, consider upgrading to the Premium plan, which comes with higher default limits. Plans using our dedicated infrastructure feature also offer the ability to customize the API call rate limits for your organization.

Premium plan

Organizations hosted on our Premium plan are subject to the following technical limits:

Metric	Plan limit	Unit of measure
Bulk Actions	200	Max of items per bulk action
Bulk Actions	5	Max active bulk actions. Number per space
Content Delivery API (CDA) calls (includes GraphQL calls)	78	Calls per second. Number per space
Content Management API (CMA) calls	10	Calls per second. Number per space
Content Preview API (CPA) calls	20	Calls per second. Number per space
Content types	custom	Number per environment
Content type fields	50	Number of fields per content type
Environments	custom	Number per space
Environment creation	12	Number per 5 minutes
Environment alias	3 (master + 2 custom)	Number per space
Users	3000	Number per organization
Roles	custom	Number per organization
Spaces	custom	Number per organization
Connected spaces	custom	Number per organization
Workflows	20	Number per environment
Records	custom	Number per environment
API keys	200	Number per organization
Webhooks	100	Number per space
Locales	40	Number per organization
Request size	1	MB
GraphQL request size	8	KB
Response size	7	MB
Custom roles	yes
Image size	20	MB per image
Image size (pixels), for animated GIFs total pixels = width x height x number of frames	300	Megapixels
Image size (megapixels), for source images transformed into AVIF format	9	Megapixels
Asset or image filename length	256	Characters with extension
Asset size, including images larger than the image size limit	1,000	MB per asset
Entry size	2	MB
Long text field	50000	Characters per field
Short text field	256	Characters per field
Short text, list field	1,000	Items per field
Rich Text field	200,000	Characters per field (field size cannot exceed a payload of 1MB)
Entry links (reference, media and Rich Text fields)	1,000	Total number of links across all of the fields of an entry
Scheduled actions	500	Number per space
Release	200	Number of entities or assets
Release actions	2	Number of release actions, per minute
Scheduled actions, scheduled time	200	Number of scheduled actions to be executed at, per minute
Scheduled release actions, scheduled time	2	Number of scheduled actions for releases, per minute
Scheduled action, maximum datetime	60	Months from time of creation
Records	5,000,000	Number per space
App Definitions	250	Number per organization
App Installations	50	Number per environment
App Access Grants	1000	Number per App Definition
Tags	1000	Number per environment
Tags	100	Number per asset or entry
Template versions	200	Number per template
Function executions	custom	Executions per organization per month

Technical limits are cumulative and can be reset only when an organization’s users delete individual items.

For more information about Premium plan limits, contact your Sales representative.

Ninetailed by Contentful

Metric	Plan limit	Unit of measure
Metrics that measure conversions and other actions	25	Number per Ninetailed by Contentful environment
Profile size	16	KB

Regardless of the pricing plan, we reserve the right to take corrective action, including but not limited to the throttling of the service API for short periods, when the stability of the system is at risk.