System Limits

This page lists various limits in the Google Ads API along with the corresponding error that is thrown when the limit is exceeded. General product limits, such as the number of campaigns per account, is listed in the Google Ads Help Center.

Account
Maximum number of Google Ads accounts in a manager account hierarchy
Value Varies
Error ManagerLinkError.TOO_MANY_ACCOUNTS
Prevention See About maximum account limits for manager accounts for more details.
Maximum number of test accounts in a manager account hierarchy
Value 50
Error ManagerLinkError.TOO_MANY_ACCOUNTS
Prevention N/A
Maximum number of manager accounts a Google Ads account can be managed by
Value 5
Error ManagerLinkError.TOO_MANY_MANAGERS
Prevention See About manager linking errors for more details.
Maximum number of levels in a hierarchy, from top-level manager account to bottom-most Google Ads account
Value 6
Error ManagerLinkError.MAX_DEPTH_EXCEEDED
Prevention See About manager linking errors for more details.
Maximum number of pending manager account invitations in the same hierarchy
Value 20
Error ManagerLinkError.TOO_MANY_INVITES
Prevention See About manager linking errors for more details.
Name length
Value 255 characters
Error StringLengthError.TOO_LONG
Prevention N/A

Ads
Headline length
Value 30 characters
Error AdError.LINE_TOO_WIDE
Prevention See About text ads for more details.
Description1 or description2 length
Value 90 characters
Error AdError.LINE_TOO_WIDE
Prevention See above.
Path1 or path2 length
Value 15 characters
Error AdError.LINE_TOO_WIDE
Prevention See above.
Final URL length
Value 2,084 bytes
Error StringLengthError.TOO_LONG
Prevention A protocol prefix (such as "https://") is required for final URLs and is counted against this limit.

Ad group
Name length
Value 256 characters
Error AdGroupError.INVALID_ADGROUP_NAME
Prevention N/A

Campaign budget
Maximum number of shared budgets in an account
Value 11,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention The budgets limit is 1,000 more than the number of campaigns limit to allow for some room in reassigning budgets if needed. There is no restriction on the number of campaigns that can share a budget.
Maximum number of unshared budgets in an account
Value 20,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention These are budgets that are associated with a specific campaign, and cannot be shared between campaigns.

Campaign
Maximum number of bidding strategies attached to ad groups per campaign
Value 1,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.CAMPAIGN_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Name length
Value 256 characters
Error StringLengthError.TOO_LONG
Prevention N/A

Conversion upload
Maximum number of offline click conversions that can be uploaded per API call
Value 2,000
Error ConversionUploadError.TOO_MANY_CONVERSIONS_IN_REQUEST
Prevention For performance reasons, we limit the number of conversions that can be uploaded per API request to 2,000.

Criterion
Keyword length
Value 80 characters
Error CriterionError.KEYWORD_TEXT_TOO_LONG
Prevention N/A
Placement URL length
Value 250 characters
Error CriterionError.PLACEMENT_URL_IS_TOO_LONG
Prevention Protocol prefixes (such as "http://") are stripped from placement URLs and are not counted towards this limit.
Final URL length
Value 2,047 bytes
Error StringLengthError.TOO_LONG
Prevention The protocol prefix (such as "http://") is counted towards this limit.
Proximity radius
Value 800 km / 500 mi
Error CriterionError.INVALID_PROXIMITY_RADIUS
Prevention N/A
Maximum number of Shopping ad groups in a single request that modifies the structure of the ProductPartition tree.
Value 2
Error AdGroupCriterionError.OPERATIONS_FOR_TOO_MANY_SHOPPING_ADGROUPS
Prevention This limit does not apply to operations on ProductPartition criteria changes that do not modify the structure of the tree. For example, a request that only modifies the bids of existing partitions can contain operations for more than two Shopping ad groups.If you want to modify the structure of the ProductPartition tree for more than two Shopping ad groups, consider using batch jobs, where this restriction does not apply.
Excluded IP blocks per campaign
Value 500
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.CAMPAIGN_LIMIT
Prevention N/A

Feed
Feeds per account
Value 100
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention We recommend using only one feed per extension type whenever possible.
Feed items per account
Value 5,000,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Feed attributes per feed
Value 30
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Feed items per matching function
Value 20
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention N/A

Label
Maximum number of labels that can be applied to accounts by a manager account
Value 200
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Maximum number of accounts a label can be applied to
Value 1,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Maximum number of labels that can be applied to entities (campaigns, ad groups, etc.) per account
Value 100,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.CAMPAIGN_LIMIT, ADGROUP_LIMIT, etc.
Prevention Labels for all entity types count towards the same limit.
Maximum number of labels that can be applied to a single entity (campaign, ad group, etc.)
Value 50
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.CAMPAIGN_LIMIT, ADGROUP_LIMIT, etc.
Prevention N/A

Listing groups
Maximum number of listing groups per ad group
Value 20,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.RESOURCE_LIMIT
Prevention N/A

Payments account
Maximum number of billing setups that can be linked to a payments account
Value 75,000
Error BillingSetupError.PAYMENTS_ACCOUNT_INELIGIBLE
Prevention N/A

Performance Max
Maximum number of Performance Max campaigns in an account
Value 100
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.ACCOUNT_LIMIT
Prevention See maximum account limits for more details. Contact your Google business development representative for a possibly higher limit.
Maximum number of asset groups in a campaign
Value 100
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.RESOURCE_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Maximum number of listing group filters in an asset group
Value 1,000
Error ResourceCountLimitExceededError.RESOURCE_LIMIT
Prevention N/A
Maximum number of listing group filter subdivisions in a campaign
Value 7
Error AssetGroupListingGroupFilterError.TREE_TOO_DEEP
Prevention N/A
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