If your automation just stopped mid-run, you have hit a quota limit. Here is exactly which one and how to fix it — free, no upgrade required, works at any order volume.
Quick answer — the numbers that matter in 2026: Both consumer (free) and Google Workspace accounts get a 6-minute maximum execution time per script run — the old 30-minute Workspace limit no longer applies. Consumer accounts are capped at 90 minutes of trigger runtime per day; Workspace accounts get 6 hours of trigger runtime per day. UrlFetch calls are capped at 20,000 per day on consumer accounts (100,000 on Workspace). These are the hard limits that cannot be increased — they are why Autocrat, Sheets automations, and document workflows fail at scale.
If you have ever seen “Service invoked too many times”, “Exceeded maximum execution time”, or “Could not obtain lock”, you already know the symptom. This guide explains the exact numbers behind those errors, when they appear by account type, and what actually works when order or document volume gets serious.
What Are Google Apps Script Quotas?
Google Apps Script quotas are hard limits on how much work a script can do. They exist to protect shared infrastructure — stopping one workflow from consuming resources that affect thousands of other users. Quotas appear across four layers, and they all apply simultaneously:
