MAXQDA sets very few limits. The following table informs about importable file formats and some limits within MAXQDA.
| Text length: | No set limit, but it isn’t recommended that you import texts larger than 1 MB |
| Importable Text formats: | RTF, DOC/X, ODT, PDF, TXT, HTML |
| Importable Image formats: Importable Table formats: | JPG, GIF, TIF, PNG XLS/S |
| Supported Audio formats: | Windows: MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, M4A Mac: MP3, WAV, AAC, CAF, M4A |
| Supported Video formats: | MP4, MOV, MPG, AVI, M4V, 3GP, 3GGP Windows: WMV recommended Codec: H.264/AVC |
| Number of projects: | No limit |
| Number of document groups: | No set limit |
| Number of documents: | 99,999, but check performance before working with several thousand documents |
| Number of codes: | No set limit, but check performance before working with several thousand codes |
| Number of coded segments | No set limit, but check performance before working with several thousand segments and please note that above 200,000 coded segments the stability of MAXQDA cannot be guaranteed (if your computer has less than 4 GB RAM this threshold may be lower) |
| Code System levels | Max. 10 |
| Numerical data: | 10 characters |
| Number of variables | No set limit, but more than 250 is not recommended |
