# CMS Item limits **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask the community\ **Tags:** cms\ **Created:** [May 15, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921 "2025-05-15T01:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Emmanuel\_Peraza\_Rodr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/emmanuel_peraza_rodr/32/107232_2.png) [@Emmanuel\_Peraza\_Rodr](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/Emmanuel_Peraza_Rodr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921/1 "2025-05-15T01:29:25Z")
Hello. I see that my plan only lets me have 20.000 items in CMS, is 20.000 per collection? So if I have 5 colecctions, will I have 250.000 items? What if I need more? ---
**Author:** ![Nex\_isaac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e8c25b/32.png) [@Nex\_isaac](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/Nex_isaac)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 1:36am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921/2 "2025-05-15T01:36:39Z")
“Is 20,000 per collection?" No. The “20,000 limit is per site”, “not per collection”. That means across all collections (e.g., Products, Categories, Authors, Tags, etc.), your “total CMS items” cannot exceed 20,000. So, if you have: 5 collections You will share the 20,000 item limit across all five collections. (e.g., 5,000 in each, or 10,000 in one, 2,000 in another, etc.) What if you need more than 20,000 CMS items? 1. Use Multiple Sites 2. Use External Databases 3. Switch to a platform without a CMS limit ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Suhr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/dan_suhr/32/94074_2.png) [@Dan\_Suhr](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/Dan_Suhr)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921/3 "2025-05-15T02:28:26Z")
The CMS limits for Elite plans are 500,000 > **[CMS: Getting a Custom Quota to Increase Your Collection Item Limits | Help...](https://support.wix.com/en/article/cms-getting-a-custom-quota-to-increase-your-collection-and-item-limits)** > > You can get a custom CMS (Content Management System) quota if you need more collection items than your Business Elite or Elite Premium plan allows. This way, yo ---
**Author:** ![onemoretime](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/onemoretime/32/104023_2.png) [@onemoretime](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/onemoretime)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921/4 "2025-05-15T03:35:40Z")
Hi, @Emmanuel_Peraza_Rodr !! Regarding that, please refer to these previous logs. 🫠 > [@CMS item limitation](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limitation/63724): > > Hi there! Question: Do I REDUCE my CMS item limit by paying for my website? Product: Wix Studio What are you trying to achieve: Get more CMS items. What have you already tried: Read through FAQs and several topics on the forums (which only lead to confusion, I fear). Additional information: I built a website in Wix Studio and was planning to get a paid plan now to get rid of the ad and get a proper domain. However, I don’t really understand the CMS item limit. I need quite a high item … > [@New Premium Plans and CMS Limits (Data Platform is Dead)](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/new-premium-plans-and-cms-limits-data-platform-is-dead/51328): > > There are some good, expected and bad updates with new premium plans came with Wix Studio. I will not going to talk about good and expected updates because they are already good so we don’t need to talk about these updates but I will just share them. Good New Media Storage Limits New Backend Containers Already Needed/Expected New Backend Requests Limits p/min New Backend Request Timeouts New Scheduled Jobs And there are some bad updated… Bad CMS Items Limits Monthly… As an answer to your question, the first link should make things clear. To understand the background and context, the links below it may be helpful. There was quite a bit of pushback from users, so I believe the restrictions were somewhat relaxed afterward. If you really need to handle a very large number of items, connecting to an external database might be a practical option. 😇 ---
**Author:** ![noahlovell](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/noahlovell/32/118920_2.png) [@noahlovell](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/noahlovell)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921/5 "2025-05-15T15:10:18Z")
All the answers here are correct 🙂 To clarify: > [@Nex\_isaac](#): > > e.g., Products, Categories, Authors, Tags, etc. Only Custom CMS collections count towards the quota * * * If you need more than 500,000 as @Dan_Suhr mentioned, you can contact the Enterprise team who can help set you up with “add ons” ---
**Author:** ![loeiks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/loeiks/32/109570_2.png) [@loeiks](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/loeiks)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/cms-item-limits/70921/6 "2025-05-21T14:13:56Z")
If you are planning to use that much space, I suggest you using an external database instead of Wix’s built-in database/cms. You can connect your external db to Wix and use Wix CMS with it with some filed type limitations (you won’t have some extra field types that is actually not a real type for example URL type which is actually just a string). If you have any question I can answer them directly here with details, or you can also explain what you want to build so I can suggest things based on your plan/goals.