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title: Skip and limit
slug: graph/docs/skip-and-limit
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createdAt: 2026-07-30T20:30:20.466Z
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The `skip` and `limit` arguments paginate the result list returned by an Optimizely Graph query. Use them to render results page by page in a UI, to chunk a backend processing job into manageable batches, or to keep query payloads small while still walking the full set of matches.

The following list defines each argument and its default and maximum values:

- `skip` – The offset in the result list (for example, the position of the first hit). By default, this is `0` (when `skip` is not used). Optimizely Graph returns the top 10,000 hits, so the maximum value of `skip` is determined by this maximum and the size of `limit`.
- `limit` – The size of the result list (for example, the number of hits retrieved per request). By default, this is `20`, with a maximum of `100`.

For example, when the `limit` is 20, the `skip` can be a maximum of 9,860.

When you need to walk past the 10,000-hit cap, use [cursor](docId\:iYVn-o30Fi0Ik7BKiowfl) instead of `skip` for stateful batch retrieval.