Salesforce Automation System · Rate Limits

Salesforce Automation System Rate Limits

Salesforce enforces consumption of its automation APIs through a per-org 24-hour API request allowance scaled by edition + license count, plus per-transaction Apex governor limits and concurrent-request ceilings. Exact per-edition allowance numbers were not retrievable in this run (Salesforce documentation pages bot-gated). This artifact captures the model and points to Salesforce's published limits cheatsheet.

Salesforce Automation System Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Salesforce Automation System on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_day, concurrent_requests, varies, and concurrent_flows.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and apiLimitExceeded.

Tagged areas include CRM, Automation, Salesforce, and Rate Limiting.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Per-org 24-hour API request allowance org
requests_per_day
see Salesforce App Limits Cheatsheet (varies by edition + license count)
REST, Bulk, Streaming, and Tooling API calls share a single 24-hour bucket scaled by edition and license count.
Concurrent long-running synchronous requests org
concurrent_requests
see Salesforce App Limits Cheatsheet
Caps concurrent long-running (>20s) synchronous requests per org.
Apex governor limits transaction
varies
see Apex Developer Guide governor limits
Per-transaction limits on SOQL, DML, callouts, CPU time, and heap size apply to Flow / Apex automation.
Flow concurrency limits org
concurrent_flows
see Salesforce Flow limits documentation
Limits on concurrent flow interviews and scheduled flow runs are documented per release.

Policies

Edition + license scaling
24-hour allowance is computed as a per-edition base plus a per-license additive.
REQUEST_LIMIT_EXCEEDED
Returns 403 with REQUEST_LIMIT_EXCEEDED once the rolling 24-hour allowance is exhausted.
Bulk API for high-volume
Use Bulk API for large data movement to avoid burning the per-call REST allowance.
Apex transaction discipline
Per-transaction governor limits are hard. Bulkify SOQL / DML; avoid callout fan-out per record.

Sources

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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools

Call it yourself

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/salesforce-automation-system-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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