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Can you help me understand the limit of power automate?

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Hello there,

I am trying to understand the limitation of power automate. I see that microsoft set four tier of users: low, medium, high, unlimited extended.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/limits-and-config

Each of this tier can perform a limited amount of PPR (power platform requests) in all flows of all environments.

A PPR is an action in a flow (compose, http, condition, apply to each ecc) and you can see the amout of PPR used by a flow in the analytics section.

From the Admin Portal, you can see the amount of actions a user has performed in all flows in all env at a certain date (Get this with this method )

I developed a high volume flow, and I am trying to understand in which tier my user is.

This is the license I see in the portal power auto - view my license
Power Automate for Office 365
Power Automate Free

in azure entra I can see that this user has also this license:
Microsoft 365 E5
Microsoft Power Apps for Developer

The flow is consuming around 250000 actions in some day (I checked this from the flow detail, analytics)

Reading the ms doc linked in the beginning of the post, can I assume my tier is High or unlimited extended?

Also, If I read this other ms documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations

it seems that the limitation numbers are different, moreover my user do not fall in any of this license mentioned here.

What is the limit my user can have in terms of actions to perform? I am asking this because I will develop soon another high volume flow.

Thanks for your help,

I hope you will help straighten out my confusion.

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developerAJ 4,763 on at

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you fall under Low with a limit of 10,000 requests/day

ideally you should be going for Power Automate per flow plan

or atleast Power automate premium

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Dignus 11 on at

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@developerAJ thanks for your reply, but how can be possible that my limit is 10k if I can go to 250k per day without a problem or a warning?

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eliotcole 4,390 Moderator on at

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Ignore ... I read it more carefully! 😅

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developerAJ 4,763 on at

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@Dignus even though you cross the limit the reason flow still works is because microWhen you exceed that limit, Microsoft doesn’t instantly kill your flow. Instead, it uses what’s called a “grace latency” or “backoff” window.

Grace / Latency Period Explained
Power Automate runs on Azure throttling mechanisms.
When your flow crosses the limit:
Microsoft queues or delays API calls (especially connectors like SharePoint, Dataverse, Outlook, etc.).
It allows a temporary tolerance window — meaning calls may still work for a while, but they slow down or start failing intermittently.
Once the overage continues beyond that tolerance:
Microsoft begins to throttle (429 errors) or pause the flow.
New runs may time out or fail until the 24-hour quota resets.

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@developerAJ It is been a couple of months that I am running this heavy flow without any warning from ms.

could be related to this?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-platform/admin/api-request-limits-allocations#power-automate-transition-period

All organziontions are in transition period.
Every manual cloud flow has a performance profile of Medium and so during this period all manual cloud flow has 100k actions per 24 hours.

That is why MS is more permissive for my flows. When this period will end (no information regarding this), my flow will break.

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developerAJ 4,763 on at

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When the transition period ends you will receive 429 errors. your connections example get item action takes long time as it waits in the queue

if you are expecting a high usage ideally per flow license is suitable

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Dignus 11 on at

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Hello again @developerAJ, do we have an idea on the transition period end date?
I could not find anything in MS documentation.

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