Every Apps Script quota, consumer vs Workspace

Apps Script enforces two kinds of limits, and Google's quotas page lists them in two tables. Daily quotas cap how much of something a user can do in 24 hours: email recipients, UrlFetch calls, documents created, total trigger runtime. They differ sharply between consumer accounts (gmail.com) and Google Workspace accounts. A consumer account gets 100 email recipients and 20,000 UrlFetch calls a day, while Workspace gets 1,500 and 100,000. Limitations are per-execution ceilings that apply to everyone: 6 minutes per script execution, 30 seconds per custom function, 20 triggers per user per script, 50 MB per UrlFetch response.

Quotas are per user, not per script. Every script the user owns or runs draws from the same daily pool, and Google says quotas "reset 24 hours after the first request." Trial Workspace accounts get additional limits until they convert to a paid subscription.

Every value below is taken from Google's quotas page, verified November 12, 2026. Google notes that all quotas and limits can change without notice. Each limit produces a specific exception message, explained in Apps Script errors. For the Gmail limits that apply outside Apps Script, see Gmail sending limits.

The 6-minute ceiling per execution is the same for consumer and Workspace accounts. The difference is the daily total for triggers: 90 minutes a day for consumer accounts versus 6 hours for Workspace. Custom functions called from a cell have a much shorter 30-second limit. Concurrency is capped per user and per script. The per-user cap counts all scripts running for that account, not only copies of the same script.

Email quotas are counted in recipients, not messages. A message to 10 people uses 10 of the daily recipient quota. The consumer quota of 100 recipients a day is far lower than Gmail's own web limit, and it is the quota most often hit by mail-merge scripts. Workspace accounts get 1,500 recipients a day, or 2,000 when sending within the domain. Body size and attachment limits apply per message. Reading and modifying mail (labels, searches) has its own, much larger, quota.

UrlFetchApp is how Apps Script calls external APIs and websites, so its quotas set the ceiling for scraping and integration scripts. The daily call count differs by account type: 20,000 for consumer and 100,000 for Workspace. The per-call size limits are the same for everyone. Exceeding the daily count throws Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch.. Calling too fast in a short window is a separate error that recommends Utilities.sleep.

Scripts that generate files hit the creation quotas. A consumer account can create 250 Docs, Slides or Sheets a day, compared with 1,500 Docs or Slides and 3,200 Sheets on Workspace. The Properties service caps both value size and total storage, which matters for scripts that keep state or checkpoint long jobs. Map, Translate and JDBC calls have their own daily counts. Code versions per project are capped at 200, so scripts that deploy often eventually need old versions cleaned up.

Apps Script throws an exception and the execution stops. The message names the limit:

• Exceeded maximum execution time: the 6-minute (or 30-second custom function) ceiling.
• Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch. (or email): a daily quota is used up.
• Service invoked too many times in a short time: Calendar. Try Utilities.sleep(1000) between calls.: too many calls in a burst.
• Service using too much computer time for one day.: daily trigger runtime is exhausted.
• There are too many scripts running simultaneously for this Google user account.: the 30-execution cap.
• Limit exceeded: Email Attachments Per Message.: a per-message limitation.

Daily quotas reset 24 hours after the first request, not at midnight.

Batch work into fewer calls. Read and write ranges with getValues/setValues instead of cell by cell, and use UrlFetchApp.fetchAll for parallel requests.

Checkpoint long jobs. Save progress to PropertiesService and let a time-driven trigger resume the next chunk, keeping each execution under 6 minutes. Watch the daily trigger runtime total while doing it.

Check quota before sending. MailApp.getRemainingDailyQuota() reports remaining email recipients.

Back off on burst errors. Follow Google's suggestion of Utilities.sleep between calls.

Upgrade the account. Moving from a consumer account to Google Workspace raises the email, URL Fetch and file-creation quotas by 5 to 15 times. Spreading one workload across many accounts to multiply quotas is evasion, not a fix.