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Governor Limits Cheat Sheet

A clear, filterable table of Salesforce per-transaction limits, with a clean split between the synchronous and asynchronous context.

Category

Category	Limit	Synchronous	Asynchronous
SOQL	Total SOQL queries	100	200
SOQL	Records retrieved by SOQL	50,000	50,000
SOQL	Records retrieved by Database.getQueryLocator	10,000	10,000
SOSL	Total SOSL queries	20	20
SOSL	Records retrieved by a single SOSL	2,000	2,000
DML	Total DML statements	150	150
DML	Records processed by DML	10,000	10,000
DML	Approval.process / Database.emptyRecycleBin calls	150	150
CPU / Memory	Maximum CPU time (timeout) CPU time excludes time waiting for callouts and database operations.	10,000 ms	60,000 ms
CPU / Memory	Maximum heap size	6 MB	12 MB
Callouts	Callouts (HTTP / web service)	100	100
Callouts	Cumulative callout timeout	120 s	120 s
Async	@future method invocations @future methods cannot be called from an asynchronous context.	50	0
Async	Jobs added to the queue (System.enqueueJob) In Queueable/Batch/@future you can chain only 1 more Queueable job.	50	1
Async	Batch jobs queued/active Holding/Queued + Active combined.	5	5
Email	sendEmail method calls	10	10
Other	Total executed statements Indirectly bounded by the CPU time limit.	no hard limit	no hard limit
Other	Maximum describe-recursion stack depth	100	100

Limits apply to a single Apex transaction. Values are for reference — always verify the current values in the official Salesforce “Apex Governor Limits” documentation.