# What's the maximum number of categories we can have? **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022 **Category:** Development **Tags:** rest-api **Created:** [2월 7, 2017, 12:08오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022 "2017-02-07T00:08:48Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam) #### Post date: [2월 7, 2017, 12:13오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022/2 "2017-02-07T00:13:45Z")
500 to 1000 is safe If you need more consider tags Additionally you can have a very large number of groups --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/whats-the-maximum-number-of-categories-we-can-have/57022)._