Recipe limits

Recipes are subject to the following design and run time limits.

General recipe design time limits

Description	Limit
Maximum recipe name length	255 characters
Maximum number of webhook recipes subscribed to same URL	100

Recipe code size limits

Recipe code size limits vary by data center.

Data center	Maximum code size (lines)	Maximum code size (bytes)	Maximum line comment (characters)	Maximum input size (bytes)
US	1,000	90 MB	2,100	5 MB
EU	1,000	90 MB	2,100	5 MB
SG	1,000	90 MB	2,100	5 MB
JP	1,000	90 MB	2,100	5 MB
AU	1,000	90 MB	2,100	5 MB
IL	1,000	20 MB	1,000	1 MB
Developer sandbox	1,000	10 MB	1,000	1 MB

Job report design time limits

Description	Limit
Maximum number of columns in a job report	10
Maximum job report column value length	256 characters

Test automation design time limits

Description	Limit
Maximum test case name length	255 characters
Maximum test case description length	1,000 characters
Maximum test case body length	1,000,000 characters
Maximum batch size of test cases request when requested by IDs	500
Maximum number of test cases per recipe	100

General recipe run time limits

Description	Limit
Job details: Maximum data storage of inputs/outputs across all steps	1 MB Job details are truncated if the total data exceeds 1 MB
Webhook rate limits	Steady rate: 20 events per second, equivalent to 72,000 events per hour Burst allowance: 9,000 events that can be processed beyond the steady rate in a burst
Webhook byte limits	Our webhook gateway has the following byte limits, which represents the total memory in all your webhooks: 30 MB per minute Burst allowance: 30 MB
Maximum number of recipes subscribed to the same webhook URL	100
Maximum recipe concurrency	30 This limit can be increased by contacting Customer Success.
Maximum number of recipe steps	1,000

Queue size limits

Description	Limit
Size of recipe function queue	10,000
Size of user actions queue	1,000
Size of swap_in queue	10,000
Size of poller events queue	10,000
Size of webhooks events queue	20,000

Timeout limits

Description	Limit
Standard job timeout	90 minutes
HTTP action request timeout	If wait for response is true, the timeout is 1 hour If wait for response is false, the timeout is 120 seconds
Polling trigger timeout	5 minutes
Long pause/action timeout	370 days Workato doesn't support indefinite pauses in recipes. Starting June 1, 2025, recipes that exceed a total cumulative pause duration of 370 days across all long actions will fail.

Specific connectors have variable timeout limits. Refer to the Connectors limits section for more information.

Payload limits

Description	Limit
Maximum webhook payload size for the EU Data Center	30 MB
Maximum webhook payload size for all other data centers	10 MB
Maximum trigger event payload size in bytes	50 MB
Maximum payload size for callable recipes that are API platform endpoints	1 MB (compressed)

FURTHER READING

Refer to the Platform limits documentation for more information about Workato limits.