How Power Platform Services Measure Usage

Power Platform services will start strictly enforcing daily and short-term usage limits on users in late 2022, which could require capacity add-ons for some high-activity users.

The limits that will likely have the greatest impact on users are per-user limits on the daily number of API requests performed by all apps and flows run by a user. Additional limits are imposed per-tenant on some activities performed within Dataverse but outside the context of a licensed user.

Generally, an API request is a call from a program to a service to perform a function such as making a calculation or retrieving a piece of data. The actions counted as an API request can vary by service:

Power Apps API requests include calls to a connector or to a Dataverse object.

Power Automate API requests include each time a workflow makes a call to a connector, an HTTP action, a Dataverse action, or a built-in action such as initializing a variable, and each failed action or retry counts as a request.

Dataverse API requests include all data operations where table rows are created, read, updated, or deleted (also known as CRUD operations). Other operations that affect data, such as sharing or assigning values, are also counted as a request because they update data. These requests can originate from any client or application, including workflows, custom controls, connectors, and plug-ins.