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Unify Limits

Beginning August 18, 2023, new Unify Plus and Engage users can refer to this page for Segment’s product limits. Existing users prior to this date can continue to refer to the Engage product limits here.

To provide consistent performance and reliability at scale, Segment enforces default use and rate limits within Unify. Most customers do not exceed these limits.

To learn more about custom limits and upgrades, contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager or friends@segment.com.

Unify Plus limits

Beginning August 18, 2023, new Unify Plus users will receive 50 Computed and five AI Traits. In addition, new users will receive the following depending on your Engage plan:

Engage Foundations: 100 Audiences and 75 Journey Steps
Engage Premier: 125 Audiences and 100 Journey Steps

Visit Segment’s pricing page to learn more.

Default limits

Name	limit	Details
Inbound Data Throughput	1000 events per second	Total event stream from sources connected to Engage, including historical data replays. Segment may slow request processing once this limit is reached.
Outbound Downstream Destination Rate Limits	Reduced retries when failures exceed 1000 events per second	Outbound Destination requests may fail for reasons outside of Segment’s control. For example, most Destinations enforce their own rate limits. As a result, Segment may deliver data faster than the Destination can accept. When Destination requests fail, Segment tries to deliver the data again. However, if more than 1000 requests per second fail or if the failure rate exceeds 50% for over 72 hours, Segment may reduce additional delivery attempts until the failure condition resolves.

Audiences and Computed Traits

name	limit	Details
Compute Concurrency	5 new concurrent audiences or computed traits	Segment computes five new audiences or computed traits at a time. Once the limit is reached, Segment queues additional computations until one of the five finishes computing.
Edit Concurrency	2 concurrent audiences or computed traits	You can edit two concurrent audiences or computed traits at a time. Once the limit is reached, Segment queues and locks additional computations until one of the two finishes computing.
Batch Compute Concurrency Limit	10 (default) per space	The number of batch computations that can run concurrently per space. When this limit is reached, Segment delays subsequent computations until current computations finish.
Compute Throughput	10000 computations per second	Computations include any Track or Identify call that triggers an audience or computed trait re-computation. Once the limit is reached, Segment may slow audience processing.
Events Lookback History	3 years	The period of time for which Segment stores audience and computed traits computation events.
Real-time to batch destination sync frequency	2-3 hours	The frequency with which Segment syncs real-time audiences to batch destinations.
Event History	`1970-01-01`	Events with a timestamp less than `1970-01-01` aren’t always ingested, which could impact audience backfills with event timestamps prior to this date.
Engage Data Ingest	1x the data ingested into Connections	The amount of data transferred into the Compute Engine.
Audience Frequency Update	1 per 8 hours	Audiences that require time windows (batch audiences), funnels, dynamic properties, or account-level membership are processed on chronological schedules. The default schedule is once every eight hours; however, this can be delayed if the “Batch Compute Concurrency Limit” is reached. Unless otherwise agreed upon, the audiences will compute at the limit set forth.
Event Properties (Computed Traits)	10,000	For Computed Traits that exceed this limit, Segment will not persist any new Event Properties and will drop new trait keys and corresponding values.

SQL Traits

name	limit	Details
SQL Traits - Rows	25 million	The number of rows each SQL trait can return.
SQL Traits - Columns	25	The number of columns each SQL trait can return.

Profile API

These limits are set per each Unify/Engage Space.

Name	limit	Details
Profile API Throughput	100 requests per second	If requests exceed 100 per second, the Profile API returns HTTP Error `429 Too Many Requests`.
Events Lookback History	14 days	The Profile API retrieves up to 14 days of a profile’s historical events within a collection. This applies to Track events, not traits sent through Identify calls.

Identity

name	Limit	Details
Identity Merges	100 merges	Engage supports up to 100 merges per profile in its identity graph. Merges occur when a common `external_id` joins two existing profiles. For example, if a user initiates a mobile session but then signs in through a web application, a common identifier like `user_id` will join the two user profiles. No additional merges will be added once the profile reaches this limit. Event resolution for the profile, however, will continue.
Identity Mappings	1000 mappings	Engage supports up to 1000 mappings per profile in its identity graph. Mappings are external identifier values like a `user_id`, email, mobile advertising `id`, or any custom identifier. No additional mappings will be added once the profile reaches this limit. Event resolution for the profile, however, will continue.
Identify calls	300 traits	Engage rejects Identify events with 300 or more traits. If your use case requires more than 300 traits, you can split the traits into multiple Identify calls.

Unify ingestion limitations

Unify will silently drop events if:

The groupId has more than 500 characters.
Events have more than 300 properties/traits.
messageId is longer than 100 characters.
The groupId is empty in a Group call or context.groupId is empty in a Track call.

This page was last modified: 15 Apr 2024

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