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Qlik Cloud Analytics capacity limits

Qlik Cloud Analytics includes platform guardrails that help maintain performance and stability for all tenants. Other limits and some features vary by subscription and may change when you upgrade.

Platform guardrails

To maintain performance and stability, Qlik Cloud enforces guardrails—fixed limits that help prevent resource overuse. These guardrails apply to all tenants.

Qlik Cloud Analytics platform guardrails
Limit Value

Data file size: upload to spaces (manual, Qlik DataTransfer, API)

100 GB
Variables in exported application content (see Working with sheets) 1,100
File size: export to Microsoft Excel (see Downloading application content) 100 MB
Tasks for scheduled data refreshes per application, script, data flow, or table recipe 10
Reload runtime limit (see Reloading application data) 3 hours
Rows in data alerts (see Troubleshooting alerts) 100,000
Rows in email notifications (see Troubleshooting alerts) 10
Data alerts per user (see Troubleshooting alerts) 50

Webhooks per user

150
Subscriptions per user (see Scheduling reports with subscriptions) 100
Recipients per subscription (see Scheduling reports with subscriptions) 100
Users per tenant 100,000
IdP groups per tenant 10,000
Custom groups per tenant 20,000
Group memberships per user 1,000
Combined users and groups per space 50,000
Group name length (max characters) 256
User session timeout 30 minutes
Application timeout (starts after session timeout + 120 seconds) 60 seconds

Subscription-based limits

Some limits and features depend on your subscription and may change when you upgrade.

For details, see:

The following subscription-based limits are not listed in Qlik Pricing or Qlik Product Terms.

Additional subscription-based limits
Limit Starter Standard Premium Enterprise

Concurrent application evaluations

2 2 5 10
Imported applications per tenant per day 300 300 2,000 10,000

Limits with large application support

Large application support increases some limits. The table below compares limits with and without large application support.

Large application support availability depends on your subscription. Limits without large application support vary by subscription. For details, see Qlik Product Terms (Qlik Cloud® Subscriptions). For more information, see Large application support.

Limits with large application support
Limit With large application support Without large application support
Application size: in-memory Up to 50 GB 5–15 GB1

Application file size: upload from other Qlik Sense versions via activity center

10 GB 1–2 GB2
Reload size limit3

3x purchased capacity (max 240 GB)

Up to 34 GB4

Engine hypercube memory limit

Approx. 3x application size (max 200 GB)5

10 GB

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