Types of Governor Limits
Let’s get a quick overview of the different types of Governors’ limits available within Salesforce.
1. Per-Transaction Apex Limits
Per-Transaction Apex Limits count for each Apex transaction.
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Description |
Synchronous Limit |
Asynchronous Limit |
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Total number of SOQL queries issued |
100 |
200 |
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Total number of records retrieved by SOQL queries |
50,000 |
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Total number of records retrieved by Database.getQueryLocator() |
10,000 |
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Total number of SOSL queries issued |
20 |
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Total number of records retrieved by a single SOSL query |
2,000 |
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Total number of DML statements issued |
150 |
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Total number of records processed as a result of DML statements, Approval.process, or database.emptyRecycleBin |
10,000 |
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Total stack depth for any Apex invocation that recursively fires triggers due to insert, update, or delete statements |
16 |
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Total number of callouts (HTTP requests or Web services calls) in a transaction |
100 |
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Maximum timeout for all callouts (HTTP requests or Web services calls) in a transaction |
120 Seconds |
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Total number of sendEmail methods allowed |
10 |
2. Per-Transaction Certified Managed Package Limits
Per-Transaction Certified Managed Package have passed the security review for AppExchange and get their own set of limits for most per-transaction limits.
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Description |
Cumulative Cross-Namespace Limit |
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Total number of SOQL queries issued |
1,100 |
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Total number of SOSL queries issued |
220 |
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Total number of DML statements issued |
1,650 |
3. Force.com Platform Apex Limits
Force.com Platform Apex Limits aren’t specific to an Apex transaction and are enforced by the Force.com platform.
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Description |
Limit |
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Maximum number of Apex classes scheduled concurrently |
100 |
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Maximum number of batch Apex jobs in the Apex flex queue that are inHolding status |
100 |
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Maximum number of batch Apex jobs queued or active concurrently |
5 |
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Maximum number of batch Apex job start method concurrent executions |
1 |
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Maximum number of batch jobs that can be submitted in a running test |
5 |
4. Static Apex Limits
Let’s get a quick overview of different types of static Apex limits available within the Salesforce.
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Description |
Limit |
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Default timeout of callouts (HTTP requests or Web services calls) in a transaction |
120 seconds |
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Maximum SOQL query run time before Salesforce cancels the transaction |
120 seconds |
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Maximum number of class and trigger code units in a deployment of Apex |
5,000 |
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For loop list batch size |
200 |
5. Size-Specific Apex Limits
Size-Specific Apex Limits are the limits put on the length of code.
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Description |
Limit |
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Maximum number of characters for a class |
1 million |
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Maximum number of characters for a trigger |
1 million |
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Method size limit |
65,535 bytecode instructions in compiled form |
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Maximum amount of code used by all Apex code in an organization |
6 MB |
6. Miscellaneous Apex Limits
Developers receive an error message when a non-selective query in a trigger executes against an object that contains more than 200,000 records and the maximum number of records that an event report returns for a user who is not a system administrator is 20,000. The limit is 100,000 for system administrators.
