- Short answer
- No — every plan includes unlimited bandwidth; real shoppers face no fixed per-minute limit, bots are rate-limited, and file storage is capped by plan.
- Real shoppers
- shopify.dev: requests from real buyers "aren't subject to a fixed request-per-minute limit".
- Bots and crawlers
- Rate-limited on the Storefront API and Shopify-hosted online store pages.
- File storage
- Capped by plan: 100 GB on Basic, up to 10 TB on Enterprise.
- Traffic charges in legal terms
- None in the Terms of Service, AUP or API Terms — documents we read on September 16, 2026.
Is there a bandwidth cap or fee on any Shopify plan?
No. Shopify's pricing FAQ "Do I get web hosting with Shopify?" says hosting comes with your plan and Shopify "includes unlimited bandwidth (no bandwidth fees)" — no tier is named, none is excluded.
The Help Center's web-performance guide says it in plainer words: your online store "is hosted on fast, global servers and doesn't limit your store's bandwidth".
Shopify's Digital Products app sets no bandwidth limit on downloads either.
Across the Terms of Service, Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) and API Terms — the documents we read on September 16, 2026 — no sentence sets a traffic ceiling or a charge for bandwidth.
Is there a limit on visitors or traffic to a Shopify store?
Not a fixed one for shoppers. shopify.dev's Storefront API rate limits say "requests from real buyers aren’t subject to a fixed request-per-minute limit" — "fixed", not "none", and buyers, not the automated traffic Shopify does throttle:
To keep the platform fast and fair, Shopify rate-limits automated traffic — such as bots and crawlers — that accesses the Storefront API and Shopify-hosted online store pages.
Whether the store stays fast when a launch spikes traffic is another question — how Shopify scales under a surge.
Which limits does Shopify actually apply?
Three limits close to bandwidth and traffic do apply:
- File storage: 100 GB on Basic (also Starter, Pause and Build, Retail), 300 GB on Grow, 500 GB on Advanced, 1 TB on Plus and 10 TB on Enterprise — see the file storage limit on each plan.
- Checkout creation: shopify.dev says Shopify limits how many checkouts can be created on the Storefront API per minute and returns a throttled error to an API client over that throttle; the page gives no figure.
- Bot protection: the bot protection feature is "available only for merchants on a Shopify Plus plan", and when a Plus merchant schedules it, the setting that stops bots from auto-completing checkout is on by default — see what Shopify already runs against bots.
Storage and the Plus bot protection feature change with your plan; bandwidth and human traffic don't, so traffic is no reason to buy a higher tier.
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