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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 machine-readable rate-limit profile for Salesforce on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 9 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, concurrent, seconds, and bytes.
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.
9 Limits
Rate LimitingCRM
Limits
Daily API requests — Developer Edition org
15000
Daily API requests — Enterprise / Professional (base) org
100000
Daily API requests — Unlimited / Performance (base) org
100000
Daily API requests — Full Sandbox org
5000000
Concurrent long-running requests — production / sandbox org
25
Concurrent long-running requests — Developer / Trial org
5
Debugging Header calls org
1000
API request timeout request
600
Combined URI and headers size request
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
- https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet.meta/salesforce_app_limits_cheatsheet/salesforce_app_limits_platform_api.htm
- https://www.salesforce.com/sales/pricing/
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.