Sync Limits

In order to guarantee good quality of service across all your customers across all your apps, Sync applies rate limits to the actions (reads and writes) taken by your code in the running app. Note that state fanout—the delivery of realtime updates to your app when it is subscribed to a Sync object—is neither a read action nor a write action, and therefore we do not limit the rate of delivery to subscribers.

The following tables summarize the various rate limits that apply.

Connection Limits

Limited Quantity	Prescribed Limit
Number of Standing Connections	up to 7,000 in each Twilio Subaccount and 100,000 overall, shared among all your subaccounts.
Rate of Connection Establishment (new or re-established)	up to 110/s in each Twilio Subaccount and 1,000/s overall, shared among all your subaccounts.
Rate of Upstream Requests	up to 500/s per connection and up to 20,000/s per Subaccount

Sync Activity Limits

Limited Quantity: Rate of Object Writes

Prescribed Limit:

up to 20/s per object burst window: 10s

Notes:

An object write is an explicit request in your code to change a value stored in Sync.
The limit applies at the top level of each Document, Map, and List, e.g. updating any item in a Map still counts towards the containing Map's write rate.
Fanout to subscribers is not rate-limited. If a write is accepted, all online subscribers will receive a state update and their number is inconsequential to the object's read or write usage.
Objects larger than 1KiB are rate-limited more aggressively. The most strict rate limit, applicable for payloads 10KiB and larger, is 2 writes/s sustained.

Limited Quantity: Rate of Object Reads

Prescribed Limit:

up to 20/s per object burst window: 10s

Notes:

Object reads are effectively GET requests for Sync data. These usually occur when initializing your Sync app. Fanout of state updates to an online subscriber doesn't count as a read.
The limit applies at the top level of each Document, Map, and List.
When bulk requesting List or Map items, each requested page counts as one read.

Limited Quantity: Rate of Stream Messages

Prescribed Limit:

up to 30/s per stream burst window: 10s

Notes:

Fanout to subscribers is not rate-limited. If a message is accepted, delivery will be scheduled for all subscribers.
Delivery is not guaranteed and occurs independently of the message's acceptance from the sender. If a receiver fails to accept a message within a few seconds of acceptance, Sync will silently drop that message for that subscriber.
Messages larger than 1KiB will be rate-limited more aggressively. The most strict rate limit, applicable for payloads larger than 3KiB, is 7 messages/s sustained.

Limited Quantity: Rate of Object Permission Reads and Writes

Prescribed Limit:

up to 80/s per object permissionburst window: 10s

Notes:

These limits apply to all permissions on an individual Sync object (except Sync Streams) and are separate from the main read and write limits. The limits will be enforced only if ACLs are enabled for service instance associated with your application.
Object permission reads are GET requests for Sync object identity where every individual identity can have various permissions for different Sync objects.
Object permission writes are POST and DELETE requests for Sync object identity where every individual identity can have various permissions for different Sync objects.

Limited Quantity: Rate of Live Queries

Prescribed Limit:

up to 200/s per index per service instance up to 20/s per index per client identity burst window: 10s

Notes:

Establishing a new Live Query fetches a dataset with filters applied and is rate controlled.
Live Query global rate control applies per individual index within a single Sync service instance.
Live Query client rate control applies per client identity established by Sync SDK.

Limited Quantity: Number of Sync Objects

Prescribed Limit:

Unlimited

Notes:

You can create at most 20 objects per second, per Sync service. Important to mention, that delete operations are counted into 20 objects per second limit.
Deleting objects is free if this action is triggered by TTL, and is not subject to any rate limit.

Sync Payload Limits

Limited Quantity	Prescribed Limit	Notes
Size of Document payload	16 KiB	Sync Documents may contain payloads up to 16 KiB of valid JSON serialized to a UTF-8 string.
Size of List Item payload	16 KiB	Sync Lists may contain Items with payloads up to 16 KiB of valid JSON serialized to a UTF-8 string.
Number of Items in the List	1,000,000	Sync Lists should not contain more than a million of items.
Size of Map Item payload	16 KiB	Sync Maps may contain Items with payloads up to 16 KiB of valid JSON serialized to a UTF-8 string. NB! Due to some accidents of serialization and deserialization, which we do in the process of ensuring valid JSON payloads, the actual data written may be of subtly different size than it is upon transmission. In these cases, you may find payloads being rejected "too large" as they approach the 16KB limit. If your application stores large payloads, please do test at the extremes.
Number of Items in the Map	1,000,000	Sync Maps should not contain more than a million of items.
Size of Stream Message	4 KiB	Sync Message Streams may deliver payloads up to 4 KiB of valid JSON serialized to a UTF-8 string.
Length of Unique Name	320 characters	Unique names assigned to Documents, Lists, Maps, Message Streams may contain up to 320 characters (UTF-8).
Length of Identity	256 characters	Client identity may contain up to 256 characters (UTF-8).
Default Page Size	50	By default, this will return the first 50 items. Specify a `PageSize` value to fetch up to 100 items at once. There is no difference if the flag `IncludeItems` is enabled or not. See paging for more information. Default sorting order is ascending of ListItems per itemIndex and Map Items per item Key.
TTL limits	An integer from 0 to 31,536,000 (one year)	The default value is 0, which means the Sync object does not expire. The Sync object will be deleted automatically after it expires, but there can be a delay between the expiration time and the resources's deletion.

Sync Insights Client Limits

(Currently for Flex customers only)

Limited Quantity	Prescribed Limit	Notes
Number of active LiveQueries per SDK client	2000	The number of active Sync LiveQueries initiated and tracked by a single SDK client instance must not exceed 2000.
Number of items returned by LiveQuery / InstantQuery	200	Max number of items included in the LiveQuery / InstantQuery search result. For the LiveQuery the returned result set can subsequently receive updates whenever new (or updated) records would match the given expression therefore the number of items can grow beyond the limit until this query is explicitly closed.
Number of operators in query expression	30	Query expression may contain any combination of the following operators: `and`, `or`, `in`, `eq`, `not_in`, `not_eq`, `contains`, however overall number of operators in query expression must be less than 30.
Array size in query expression	30	Any array within query expression must contain less than 30 elements.