---
title: "Get organization resource limits - Xata"
description: "Retrieves the effective org-level limits, including project creation limits and branch configuration defaults. Project-specific overrides are not applied here."
source: "https://xata.io/docs/api-reference/projects/get-organization-resource-limits"
---

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GET

/

organizations

/

{organizationID}

/

limits

Get organization resource limits

```
curl --request GET
  --url https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```
import requests

url = "https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

```
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

```
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

```
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.xata.tech/organizations/{organizationID}/limits")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```
{
  "maxDescriptionLength": 26,
  "maxBranchesPerProject": 123,
  "maxInstancesPerBranch": 2,
  "minInstancesPerBranch": 2,
  "maxAllowedInstanceType": 2,
  "maxBranchesPerHour": 2,
  "maxProjects": 2,
  "maxProjectsPerHour": 2,
  "maxBranchesPerOrg": 2
}
```

```
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "id": "<string>"
}
```

```
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "id": "<string>"
}
```

#### Authorizations

​

Authorization

string

header

required

The access token received from the authorization server in the OAuth 2.0 flow.

#### Path Parameters

​

organizationID

string

required

Unique identifier of the organization

Pattern: `[a-zA-Z0-9_-~:]+`

#### Response

Effective resource limits for the organization

Effective resource limits for an organization, covering org-level defaults for all projects plus organization-specific constraints

​

maxDescriptionLength

integer

required

Maximum character length allowed for project descriptions

Required range: `x >= 25`

​

maxBranchesPerProject

integer

required

Maximum number of branches allowed per project

​

maxInstancesPerBranch

integer

required

Maximum number of database instances allowed per branch

Required range: `x >= 1`

​

minInstancesPerBranch

integer

required

Minimum number of database instances required per branch

Required range: `x >= 1`

​

maxAllowedInstanceType

integer

required

Maximum VCPUs (in millicores) allowed per instance; instance types with a higher VCPUsRequest are unavailable

Required range: `x >= 1`

​

maxBranchesPerHour

integer

required

Maximum number of branches that can be created in a rolling one-hour window

Required range: `x >= 1`

​

maxProjects

integer

required

Maximum number of projects allowed in the organization

Required range: `x >= 1`

​

maxProjectsPerHour

integer

required

Maximum number of projects that can be created in a rolling one-hour window

Required range: `x >= 1`

​

maxBranchesPerOrg

integer

required

Maximum number of active branches allowed across all projects in the organization

Required range: `x >= 1`

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