Zapier operating constraints

Zapier offers a relatively unique run-time environment for your integration and its requests to your API. The environment is stateless and restricts both execution time and payload size to offer normalized reliability and running time. There are three distinct contexts of this run-time that your integration will need to consider.

  • Zap step setup and testing using the Zap editor
  • Zap startup - turning a Zap on
  • Zap step execution when a Zap runs

The following pages describe the operating constraints of these run-time modes, the errors your integration users could run into, and best practices. Developers in the Platform CLI development environment and those using Code Mode in the Platform UI will find these pages most relevant.

Many errors can be viewed in your integration’s log monitoring in the Platform UI, or if using the Platform CLI, by using zapier logs command.

Important Zapier constraints summary

Time Limits  
Zap Editor test step: request(s) + scripting 30 seconds
Polling trigger: request(s) + scripting 30 seconds
REST Hook trigger: ingest and payload processing scripting 30 seconds
Create/search action: requests(s) + scripting 30 seconds
Size limits  
Deduplication table 105,000 rows per Zap
Custom fields 1000
Webhook payload 10 MB
HTTP response payload 20 MB
Downloaded files ~120 MB
Throttles  
Polling trigger Default: 100 new items/poll
REST Hook trigger 10000 webhooks/5 minutes
  30 webhooks/second
More on throttles here.  
TCP/IP  
Integration assigned IP AWS-East

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