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Custom object limits

Limits that apply to custom objects, fields, and parent/child relationships.

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ItemLimit
Objects
  • 4,000 total custom objects per company
Basic fields: Text, Email, Phone number, URL
  • 400 of each of these types per object
  • Share a maximum of 560 slots with Choice
  • 1,000 characters per field
Basic fields: Choice
  • 125 choice fields per object
  • Uses the same 560-slot maximum as Text, Email, Phone number, and URL
Basic fields: Long text
  • 80 long text per object
  • 132,000 characters per field in a given record
Basic fields: Multichoice
  • 125 multichoice fields per object
  • 1,000 options per multichoice field
  • 100 selected options per record
Basic fields: Currency
  • 125 currency fields per object
  • 15 digits before the decimal
  • 6 digits after the decimal
Basic fields: Date
  • 125 date fields per object
Basic fields: Datetime
  • 125 datetime fields per object
Basic fields: Boolean
  • 200 boolean fields per object
Basic fields: Number
  • 200 number fields per object
  • 15 digits before the decimal
  • 6 digits after the decimal
Lookup fields
  • 60 per object
Field history
  • Can be captured for up to 20 fields per object
Parent-child relationships
  • One parent-child lookup field per object
  • A parent can be referenced by at most 8 child objects
  • Maximum height of parent-child relationships is 3 (i.e., caps out at grandparent object)

For more information, see Fields and Lookups.