Limits

These are the fixed numbers Fortly enforces, whichever plan you are on. Each one is checked by the API itself, so the console, scripts and agents all meet the same limit, and the error says which one you hit.

How many projects you can have, how much file and database storage your account gets, and how many custom domains it can use depend on your plan. See fortly.com for plans and pricing.

Deploys

Limit	Value
Release upload, compressed	256 MB
Release once unpacked	2 GB
Files in one release	50,000
Builds running at once, per project	1
Releases returned by `GET /projects/{name}/deploys`	The 50 newest

An upload over 256 MB is refused with 413. An archive that unpacks past either of the other two limits is refused with 400 and that upload expands to more than 2 GB or that upload has more than 50000 files, and so is an archive with a path that escapes its root. A refused release never replaces the live one. Starting a build while another is running for the same project returns 409 with a release is already being built for this project — wait for it to finish.

Projects

Limit	Value
Project name	2 or more characters: lower-case letters, digits and hyphens, not starting or ending with a hyphen
Project name plus your account name	62 characters together, since the pair becomes a 63-character DNS label
Idle time before a server process is stopped	15 minutes
Creating projects in quick succession	8, then one more every 5 seconds

An idle project is started again by its next request; see idle projects. Creating projects faster than the allowance returns 429 with a Retry-After header.

Files and imports

Limit	Value
One uploaded file	64 MB
One database import (SQL script)	256 MB

Data requests

Limit	Value
Rows returned by one table read	100 by default, up to 1,000 with `limit`
Time for one statement sent to `/query` or `/batch`	15 seconds
Rows returned by one statement sent to `/query` or `/batch`	500, with `"truncated": true` when there were more
Statements in one `/batch`	200

A limit outside 0 to 1,000 is refused with limit must be between 0 and 1000. A statement that runs past 15 seconds is answered with that query took too long and was stopped.

Secrets

Limit	Value
Secret name	1 to 64 characters: capital letters, digits and underscores, not starting with a digit
Secret value	64 KB
Names you cannot use	`PORT`, `HOST`, `PATH`, `FORTLY_API`, `FORTLY_TOKEN`, `DATABASE_URL`, `DATABASE_TRANSACTION_URL`, `PGHOST`, `PGPORT`, `PGDATABASE`, `PGUSER`, `PGPASSWORD`, `PGSSLMODE`

Fortly sets the reserved names itself, and they always win over a value stored under the same name.

Schedules

Limit	Value
Time for one run	5 minutes, then the run is abandoned
Time zone	UTC

Runs missed while the platform was unavailable are not replayed afterwards.

Limit	Value
Password	12 or more characters
Sign-in attempts for one email address	8, then one more every 5 seconds
Password-reset requests for one email address	8, then one more every 5 seconds
A console sign-in	30 days

A successful sign-in gives back the attempt it used, so only failures count toward the limit. Going over any of these returns 429 with a Retry-After header saying how many seconds to wait.

API tokens

Limit	Value
Token name	1 to 60 characters
Token lifetime	1 to 365 days, 90 by default
Grace for the old secret after a rotation	0 to 720 hours, 24 by default

See API tokens.

Team invitations

Limit	Value
How long an invitation lasts	7 days
Invitations open at once	50
Invitations sent per day	50, counted over the last 24 hours
Time between resends of one invitation	60 seconds

See Team and roles.

AI agents

Limit	Value
Log lines returned by one `query_logs` call	100 by default, up to 500

See Connect an AI agent.