Apps Script services have daily quotas and limitations on some features. If you exceed a quota or limitation, your script throws an exception and execution stops.
Current quotas
Quotas are set at different levels for users of consumer (such as gmail.com) or G Suite free edition (discontinued) accounts and Google Workspace accounts.
Use the quotas below to help test your scripts. All quotas are subject to elimination, reduction, or change at any time, without notice.
| Feature | Consumer (e.g., gmail.com) and G Suite free edition (legacy) |
Google Workspace accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar events created | 5,000 / day | 10,000 / day |
| Contacts created | 1,000 / day | 2,000 / day |
| Documents created | 250 / day | 1,500 / day |
| Files converted | 2,000 / day | 4,000 / day |
| Email recipients per day | 100* / day | 1,500* / day |
| Email recipients per day within domain | 100* / day | 2,000 / day |
| Email read/write (excluding send) | 20,000 / day | 50,000 / day |
| Groups read | 2,000 / day | 10,000 / day |
| JDBC connection | 10,000 / day | 50,000 / day |
| JDBC failed connection | 100 / day | 500 / day |
| Presentations created | 250 / day | 1,500 / day |
| Properties read/write | 50,000 / day | 500,000 / day |
| Slides created | 250 / day | 1,500 / day |
| Spreadsheets created | 250 / day | 3,200 / day |
| Triggers total runtime | 90 min / day | 6 hr / day |
| URL Fetch calls | 20,000 / day | 100,000 / day |
| Static Map render | 1,000 / day | 10,000 / day |
| Google Map Direction query | 1,000 / day | 10,000 / day |
| Google Map Geocode calls | 1,000 / day | 10,000 / day |
| Translate calls | 5,000 / day | 20,000 / day |
| Google Map elevation samples query | 1,000 / day | 10,000 / day |
| Apps Script projects | 50 / day | 50 / day |
Current limitations
Use the limits below to help test your scripts. All limits are subject to elimination, reduction, or change at any time, without notice.
| Feature | Consumer (e.g., gmail.com) and G Suite free edition (legacy) |
Google Workspace accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Script runtime | 6 min / execution | 6 min / execution |
| Custom function runtime | 30 sec / execution | 30 sec / execution |
| Simultaneous executions | 30 | 30 |
| Email attachments | 250 / msg | 250 / msg |
| Email body size | 200 KB / msg | 400 KB / msg |
| Email recipients per message | 50 / msg | 50 / msg |
| Email total attachments size | 25 MB / msg | 25 MB / msg |
| Properties value size | 9 KB / val | 9 KB / val |
| Properties total storage | 500 KB / property store | 500 KB / property store |
| Triggers | 20 / user / script | 20 / user / script |
| URL Fetch response size | 50 MB / call | 50 MB / call |
| URL Fetch headers | 100 / call | 100 / call |
| URL Fetch header size | 8 KB / call | 8 KB / call |
| URL Fetch POST size | 50 MB / call | 50 MB / call |
| URL Fetch URL length | 2 KB / call | 2 KB / call |
Exception messages
If a script reaches a quota or limitation, it throws an exception with a message similar to the following:
Limit exceeded: Email Attachments Per Message.This indicates that the script exceeded one of the quotas or limitations listed above.Service invoked too many times: Calendar.This indicates that the script called the given service too many times in one day.Service invoked too many times in a short time: Calendar. Try Utilities.sleep(1000) between calls.This indicates that the script called the given service too many times in a short period.Service using too much computer time for one day.This indicates that the script exceeded the total allowable execution time for one day. It most commonly occurs for scripts that run on a trigger, which have a lower daily limit than scripts executed manually.Script invoked too many times per second for this Google user account.This indicates that the script began executing too many times in a short period. It most commonly occurs for custom functions that are called repeatedly in a single spreadsheet. To avoid this error, code your custom functions so that they only need to be called once per range of data, as explained in the guide to custom functions.There are too many scripts running simultaneously for this Google user account.This indicates that you have too many scripts executing at once, although not necessarily the same script. Like the exception above, this most commonly occurs for custom functions that are called repeatedly in a single spreadsheet.