---
page_type: error
code: 50436
message: "50436: Participant limit exceeded for group conversation"
level: ERROR
product: Programmable Chat
---

## Description

There is a limit to how many participants can be active in the same conversation at once. Adding this participant would exceed that limit.

### Possible Causes

- You may have failed to remove old participants in a long-running conversation.
- You may have reached an edge-case in your application that creates unusually large conversations, in excess of the limit.

### Possible Solutions

- Drop another participant from the conversation before adding new one.