Every Zapier limit, by plan

Zapier's limits come in three layers. Plan limits set how many tasks you can run per month and how often polling triggers check for new data. As of November 2026, Free includes 100 tasks a month with 15-minute polling and two-step Zaps. Professional checks every 2 minutes, and Team and Enterprise check every minute. Zap limits apply to everyone: 100 steps per Zap, 1,000 fields per action step, and rate limits on how fast triggers can start Zaps. Runtime limits cap individual steps. App actions must finish in 30 seconds, Code by Zapier steps get 1 second on Free, 30 seconds on Professional and Team, and 2 minutes on Enterprise, and webhook payloads are capped at 10 MB for triggers and 5 MB for actions.

A task is counted each time an action step runs successfully. Triggers, filters and some built-in steps don't count. When you run out, Zapier holds Zap runs rather than dropping them. On paid plans, pay-per-task billing can keep Zaps running past the limit at a higher per-task rate.

Values come from zapier.com/pricing, the Zapier Help Center and Zapier's developer platform documentation, verified November 12, 2026. Prices and task tiers change often; check the pricing page before buying.

Paid plans are sold in task tiers, so the price depends on the monthly task volume you pick. The polling interval is how often Zapier checks a polling trigger (for example "New Row in Google Sheets") for new data. Instant (webhook-based) triggers fire immediately on every plan. Code by Zapier's included runtime also scales with the plan, which matters for scripts that call slow APIs.

These limits are enforced per Zap or per user regardless of plan, except where noted. The trigger rate limits protect Zapier and the connected apps from floods. When a Zap exceeds one, its runs are held, or the request gets a 429 for instant triggers, rather than silently dropped. Flood protection is a separate safeguard: if a polling trigger suddenly returns 100 or more new items at once, Zapier holds them and asks you to confirm before replaying.

Every app action, search and polling trigger has 30 seconds to finish its requests and scripting. That window is fixed, and slow third-party APIs are the most common cause of timeout errors. Code by Zapier steps have plan-based runtimes and 512 MB of memory. On paid plans you can opt individual steps into extended runtime, billed in extra tasks. Webhooks and step inputs have size caps, but files are passed between steps by reference and don't count against input payload limits.

Task limit: Zapier holds the actions of all Zaps in the account once the billing cycle's task limit is reached, unless pay-per-task applies. Trigger data keeps being stored, and held runs can be replayed after you upgrade or the cycle resets, so no data is lost. Upgrading resets task usage.

Rate limits: instant triggers over 20,000 requests per 5 minutes get HTTP 429. Polling triggers and Code steps over their limits have their runs held until the limit resets.

Timeouts: a step that runs past 30 seconds fails, typically with The app did not respond in-time. It may or may not have completed successfully. Because the request may have succeeded on the app's side, check before replaying. A Code step past its runtime "fails with a timeout error."

Payload size: oversized webhooks return 413.

Cut task usage. Put Filter steps early, since filters don't use tasks and they stop runs before paid actions, and combine several updates into one action where the app supports it.

Pick instant triggers (webhooks) over polling triggers where an app offers both. They fire on every plan without waiting for the polling interval.

Split slow work. If an app call takes longer than 30 seconds, start the job in one Zap and pick up the result in a second Zap triggered when the job finishes, instead of waiting inside a step.

Use extended runtime for heavy Code steps on paid plans, or move heavy processing out of Zapier.

Upgrade or enable pay-per-task when volume is the real constraint. Higher tiers also shorten polling to 2 or 1 minutes.