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Salesforce Rate Limits

Salesforce platform API request limits, read from the published API Request Limits and Allocations cheat sheet on 2026-08-13.

Salesforce Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Salesforce on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-10-12.

It captures 9 rate-limit definitions, including Daily API requests — Developer Edition — Developer Edition N/A 15,000; Daily API requests — Enterprise / Professional (base) — 100,000 + (number of licenses x calls per license type) + purchased API Call Add-Ons; Daily API requests — Unlimited / Performance (base) — 100,000 + (number of licenses x calls per license type) + purchased API Call Add-Ons.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, limit_format, standard_ratelimit_headers, and retry_after response headers.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for daily_allocation_exceeded, concurrency_exceeded, and query_timeout.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and CRM.

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Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-10-12 — developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.salesforce_app_....
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Limits

Daily API requests — Developer Edition org
Developer Edition N/A 15,000
requests · day
15000
Flat allocation; the formula does not apply.
Daily API requests — Enterprise / Professional (base) org
100,000 + (number of licenses x calls per license type) + purchased API Call Add-Ons
requests · day
100000
Base only. Add 1,000 calls per Salesforce or Salesforce Platform license, plus add-ons.
Daily API requests — Unlimited / Performance (base) org
100,000 + (number of licenses x calls per license type) + purchased API Call Add-Ons
requests · day
100000
Base only. Add 5,000 calls per Salesforce or Salesforce Platform license, plus add-ons.
Daily API requests — Full Sandbox org
Full Sandbox N/A 5,000,000
requests · day
5000000
Concurrent long-running requests — production / sandbox org
no new concurrent requests are allowed until there are fewer than 25 long running requests
concurrent
25
Applies to requests running 20 seconds or longer.
Concurrent long-running requests — Developer / Trial org
Developer Edition and Trial orgs 5
concurrent
5
Applies to requests running 20 seconds or longer.
Debugging Header calls org
Calls that include DebuggingHeader have a separate allocation limit of 1,000 calls per 24-hour period
requests · day
1000
Separate allocation from the main API request allocation.
API request timeout request
The timeout limit for REST and SOAP API calls is 10 minutes, except for any query call
seconds
600
10 minutes for REST and SOAP requests, excluding queries.
Combined URI and headers size request
the allowed length for the combined URI and headers is 16,384 bytes
bytes
16384

Policies

Read Sforce-Limit-Info on every response
The header reports api-usage=/ for the rolling 24-hour window. This is the only runtime backoff signal Salesforce provides — there is no Retry-After.
Poll getOrgLimits before large jobs
GET /services/data/v{version}/limits returns {Max, Remaining} for DailyApiRequests, DailyBulkApiBatches, DailyStreamingApiEvents and more. Fail fast rather than halfway.
Bulk over REST for large volumes
Use Bulk API 2.0 for more than ~2,000 records; a whole job costs a handful of calls where paged SOQL costs one call per page.
Composite to collapse round trips
A Composite request counts as ONE API call regardless of how many subrequests it carries (max 25). See skills/salesforce-composite-write.md.

Sources

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