Okta Workflows — Execution Limits & Resource Model (§6)
ProductivityOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Use when hitting or planning around Okta Workflows execution limits and the resource model: the platform hard limits (100 MB instance memory; 2,000,000 max steps/flow; recursion limit 250 with the 'Stack limit exceeded' error; 1 MB payload per execution-history message with the 'The data returned successfully, but is too large to display' message that is explicitly NOT an error; 10 invocations/sec/flow flow-execution rate limit then 429; 30-day execution history; file attachments 10 MB, download/upload 2 GB, SFTP 25 MB, 30-day file retention; 30-day max pause duration); plan-gated active flow counts (Free Trial/Starter 5, Light 50, Medium 150, Maximum unlimited, legacy Ad…