# Limitation on how big a search query can be?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitation-on-how-big-a-search-query-can-be/62649>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 10, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitation-on-how-big-a-search-query-can-be/62649 "2016-10-10T17:37:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![suanmeiguo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/suanmeiguo/32/11758_2.png) [@suanmeiguo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/suanmeiguo)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitation-on-how-big-a-search-query-can-be/62649/1 "2016-10-10T17:37:15Z")

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Hi,

Is there any limitation on how big the search query (like number of terms, size of the requests body)? or say, if I make one request to search 100k terms, will it work?

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/limitation-on-how-big-a-search-query-can-be/62649/2 "2017-07-05T22:13:35Z")

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