Limits

These are limits that Val Town enforces. These limits are subject to change, and some are soft-enforced. For pricing and plan details, see Pricing.

If you're regularly hitting one of these limits and it's blocking a legitimate use case, let us know.

By plan

Limits that depend on which plan you're on. See Pricing for feature differences.

Limit	Free	Pro	Teams
Execution timeout Maximum wall-clock time for a single val run.	1 min	10 min	10 min
Log retention	3 days	10 days	10 days
Log lines per day	100,000	200,000	200,000
API requests per minute Authenticated Val Town API calls.	1,000	10,000	10,000
Val creations per minute	10	60	60
Minimum cron interval Shortest delay between scheduled runs of a single val.	15 min	1 min	1 min
Private vals	5	Unlimited	Unlimited
Custom domains	0	10	Unlimited
Email external recipients Whether std/email can send to addresses other than your own.	No	Yes	Yes

File size	80,000 characters Per-file limit. Applies to source files in a val.
Files per val	1,000
Branches per val	100

Incoming email size	30 MiB Total size of a delivered email (headers + body).
Request depth	15 Maximum chain of Val Town requests triggering other Val Town requests.
Worker runtime	6 hrs Absolute ceiling on a single worker's lifetime, regardless of plan.
Worker idle timeout	10 sec How long a worker waits for more requests before shutting down.
Worker memory	4 GiB

Log line length	8,192 characters Lines longer than this are truncated.
Log lines per run	5,000

Handle length	3–29 characters
Handle renames	5 Lifetime cap on how many times you can rename your account.
Bio length	256 characters
Subdomains per account	500

Pending invitations	50 Outbound invitations can be in flight at once.
Invitation expiry	7 days

Key length	8,192 characters
Value length	8,192 characters
Description length	1,024 characters
Per .env import	100 Maximum keys imported from a pasted .env blob.

Message length

6,000 characters

AI chat also has per-period spending allotments that vary by plan; see Pricing and the Townie docs.