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Process Limits

When building processes, keep shared limits and Apex governor limits in mind. In addition, a process’s API name must be unique across all processes and flows in your org.
Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience
Available in: Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions

Limits Shared with Other Features

Processes share some limits with rules and flows.

Description Per-Org Limit
Total number of active rules and active processes per object

Rules include workflow rules, escalation rules, assignment rules, and auto-assignment rules. Invocable processes don’t count toward this limit.

50
Total number of flows and processes (including event processes) 1,000
Total number of active flows and processes (including event processes) 500
Total number of event processes 500
Total number of active event processes 50
Total number of criteria nodes that are evaluated and actions that are executed at runtime 2,000
Total number of flow interviews that are resumed or groups of scheduled actions that are executed per hour 1,000
Total number of flow interviews or groups of scheduled actions that are waiting to be processed 30,000
Total number of relative time alarms defined in flow versions or schedules based on a field value in processes 20,000

The daily limit for emails sent from email alerts is 1,000 per standard Salesforce license per org, except for Developer Edition orgs. For a Developer Edition org, the daily workflow email limit is 15 per standard Salesforce license. The overall org limit is 2,000,000, which is shared across all features that use workflow email alerts: workflow rules, approval processes, flows, and processes.

Apex Governors and Limits for Processes

Salesforce strictly enforces limits to ensure that runaway processes don’t monopolize shared resources in the multitenant environment. Processes are governed by the per-transaction limits that are enforced by Apex. If the process causes the transaction to exceed governor limits, the system rolls back the entire transaction. For details about the operations that are included in the transaction, see “Triggers and Order of Execution” in the Apex Developer Guide.

Description Per-Transaction Limit
Total number of SOQL queries issued 100
Total number of records retrieved by SOQL queries 50,000
Total number of DML statements issued 150
Total number of records processed as a result of DML statements 10,000

Each Create a Record action uses one DML statement. Each Quick Action action uses one DML statement. Each Update Records action uses one SOQL query and one DML statement. Each Flows action can use multiple SOQL queries and DML statements, depending on the elements that the flow executes. For details, see Limits for Visual Workflow.

Limits for Creating and Managing Processes

Consider these limits when creating and managing processes.

Description Limit
Total number of characters in a process name 255
Total number of characters in a process’s API name 77
Total number of versions of a process 50
Total number of criteria nodes in a process 200