Tableau Cloud Capacity
Tableau Cloud is provisioned with capacity to support your users’ analytic needs. With the introduction of capacity management capabilities in May 2026 (Tableau 2026.1), cloud administrators have greater visibility and control of how these capacities are allocated across the sites in a tenant.
Notes:
- The capacity information discussed in this topic applies to sites in your Tableau Cloud Manager (TCM) tenant. The tenant is the top-level administrative layer where cloud administrators manage their organisation’s Tableau Cloud deployment. Depending on your Tableau edition, TCM includes up to 3 sites by default. The number of sites increases with different edition types: Up to 10 sites with Enterprise edition and a maximum of 50 sites with Cloud+(Link opens in a new window) or Tableau+ edition. However, you might not be able to create the maximum number of sites allowed if there is no available capacity.
- Licensing capacity is managed at the tenant level and can be allocated to sites by cloud administrators using site role limits. For more information, see Manage Site Role Limits.
Capacity summary
The following table summarises the capacity allowances for your site by feature. You can find more capacity information by the feature areas listed in the table below.
Important: Capacity limits specific for sites in TCM are subject to change as we evolve our infrastructure.
Additional notes
- Edition and licence: Several capacities are calculated based on your Tableau Cloud edition and Creator licence count, and noted where applicable.
- Advanced Management add-on: As of 16 September 2024, Advanced Management is no longer available as an independent add-on option. If your site was previously licensed with the Advanced Management add-on, your site or tenant capacity is equivalent to the capacity Tableau+ or Enterprise edition unless noted otherwise.
| Feature area | Capacity type | Capacity allowance | Configurable in TCM | More information |
| Storage | Site storage | Standard: 1 TB per site Enterprise, Cloud+, Tableau+: 5 TB per site | No | Storage |
| Data Management: Up to 5 TB per site | No | About Tableau Advanced Management on Tableau Cloud | ||
| Individual workbook, published data source or flow size | Standard, Enterprise, Cloud+, Tableau+: 25 GB per site (suggested limit for optimal performance) | No | Storage | |
| Data Management: 25 GB per site (suggested limit for optimal performance) | No | About Tableau Advanced Management on Tableau Cloud | ||
| Extracts | Daily refreshes | Up to 8 backgrounder hours per Creator licence per site | No | Extracts – daily, runtime and memory usage |
| Concurrent refreshes | Standard: Up to 15 jobs* per tenant Enterprise: Up to 25 jobs* with 1 additional job for every 10 Creator licences per tenant Cloud+, Tableau+: Up to 50 jobs* with 1 additional job for every 5 Creator licences per tenant Capacity-based Viewer Blocks: See Deployments with capacity-based licence model | Yes | Extract concurrency | |
| Individual refresh runtime | 120 minutes (2 hours) | - | Extracts – daily, runtime and memory usage | |
| Refresh memory usage size | 20 GB | - | ||
| Extract APIs | Calls | Standard: 120 calls per hour per tenant Enterprise: 240 calls with 1 additional call for every 1 Creator licence per hour per tenant Cloud+, Tableau+: 480 calls with 2 additional calls for every 1 Creator licence per hour per tenant Capacity-based Viewer Blocks: See Deployments with capacity-based licence model | Yes | Extract APIs |
| Subscriptions | Concurrent subscriptions | Standard: Up to 20 jobs* per tenant Enterprise: Up to 25 jobs* with 1 additional job for every 10 Creator licences per tenant Cloud+, Tableau+: Up to 50 jobs* with 1 additional job for every 5 Creator licences per tenant Capacity-based Viewer Blocks: See Deployments with capacity-based licence model | Yes | Subscription concurrency |
| Individual subscription runtime | 30 minutes | - | Subscriptions – runtime and email size | |
| Individual email size | 2 MB | - | ||
| Publish APIs | Calls | Standard: 800 calls per hour per tenant Enterprise: 1200 calls with 1 additional call for every 2 Creator licences per hour per tenant Cloud+, Tableau+: 2,400 calls with 1 additional call for every 1 Creator licence per hour per tenant Capacity-based Viewer Blocks: See Deployments with capacity-based licence model | Yes | Publish APIs |
| Flows | Concurrent flows | Standard: 1 Resource Block per site | No | Flow concurrency |
| Additional concurrent flows | Enterprise, Cloud+, Tableau+: Dependent on purchased resource blocks per tenant | Yes | Flow concurrency | |
| Flow memory usage size | 19.5 GB | - | Flows – user requests, daily, runtime and memory usage | |
| VizQL Data Service (VDS) APIs | Calls | Standard, Enterprise, Cloud+, Tableau+: 100 calls per every 1 Creator licence per hour per tenant (excludes tenants licensed with UBL) | Yes | VizQL Data Service APIs |
| Capacity-based Viewer Blocks: See Deployments with capacity-based licence model | No | Visualisations | ||
| Visualisations | Load time | Up to 5 minutes | No | Visualisations – load time, timeout, request rate, memory usage |
| Idle timeout | 120 minutes (2 hours) | - | ||
| Request rate
| Up to 600 requests per hour per user | No | Visualisations – load time, timeout, request rate, memory usage | |
Capacity-based Viewer Blocks: See Deployments with capacity-based licence model | Yes | Visualisations | ||
| Query memory usage size | 20 GB | - | Visualisations – load time, timeout, request rate, memory usage | |
| View Acceleration | Accelerated views | Minimum 30 accelerated views with an additional 20 views per Creator licence per site. Maximum 750 accelerated views per site. | No | View Acceleration |
| Daily refreshes | Up to 12 jobs per day per view (per site) | No | ||
| Individual accelerated views runtime | Up to 30 minutes | - | ||
| Accelerated views memory usage size | 20 GB | - | ||
*To ensure optimal performance and fair resource distribution across Tableau Cloud, capacities are managed dynamically based on real-time demand. During peak periods or at Tableau’s discretion, requests beyond the allowed limit might be rejected to prioritise system stability.
Deployments with capacity-based licence model
The capacity-based licence model, Capacity-based Viewer Blocks, replaces your edition’s default capacity for the following capacity types: extracts, extract APIs, publish APIs and subscriptions.
Under this model, you also get capacity for scheduled Pulse digests and additional visualisations capacity.
Note: Capacity for visualisations and VizQL Data Service (VDS) APIs are combined into a single pool in the capacity-based licence model.
| Feature area | Capacity type | Capacity allowance | Configurable in TCM | More information |
| Extracts | Concurrent refreshes | For each unit purchased, 15 total jobs per tenant (replaces edition capacity) | Yes | Extract concurrency |
| Extract APIs | Calls | For each unit purchased, 1,000 total calls per hour per tenant (replaces edition capacity) | Yes | Extract APIs |
| Publish APIs | Calls | For each unit purchased, 1,000 total calls per hour per tenant (replaces edition capacity) | Yes | Publish APIs |
| Pulse digests | Scheduled digests | For each unit purchased, up to 1,000 requests** per day per tenant | Yes | Pulse digests |
| Subscriptions | Concurrent subscriptions | For each unit purchased, 20 total jobs per tenant (replaces edition capacity) | Yes | Subscription concurrency |
| Visualisations | Request rate | For each unit purchased, up to 300 total requests** per hour per tenant | Yes | Visualisations |
**To ensure optimal performance and fair resource distribution across Tableau Cloud, capacities are managed dynamically based on real-time demand. During peak periods or at Tableau’s discretion, requests beyond the allowed limit might be rejected to prioritise system stability.