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title: Wait
description: Pause the workflow for a specified amount of time
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Pause the workflow for a set time, then carry on with the same data.

## What it does

Wait holds the run for **Amount** × **Unit** (the unit is **Seconds** unless you change it), then passes the data it received straight through, unchanged.

It pauses **once for everything that arrives**, not once per item. Ten items reaching a 5-second Wait leave together after 5 seconds. To pause between items, put Wait inside a [Loop](/nodes/builtin/flow/loop/) or after [Split in Batches](/nodes/builtin/flow/splitinbatches/).

How it waits depends on the length:

* **Under 1 minute**: a simple timer, precise to the millisecond. Closing the tab cancels it.
* **1 minute or more, in the browser extension**: a durable wait. The run is saved and resumes at the deadline, even if you close the tab or restart the browser. It resumes within about a minute of the deadline and can last up to **30 days**. Meanwhile the run shows as **waiting** in the Executions pane.
* **In the web app**, every wait uses the simple timer, so a long wait does not survive a closed tab.

## When to use it

* Space out requests so a service does not rate-limit you.
* Give a page or an external job time to finish before the next step.
* Send a follow-up later: "wait 2 days, then remind me".

To wait until something is actually ready rather than for a fixed time, use [Poll Until](/nodes/builtin/flow/polluntil/) or [Wait For Element](/nodes/extension/ui/wait-for-element/).

## Inputs and settings

Waits longer than 30 days are cut to 30 days.

## Outputs

The data that came in goes out unchanged.

## Dependencies and credentials

None. This node needs no connection and has no slots for other nodes.

## Example workflow

1. A [Context Menu](/nodes/builtin/trigger/contextmenu/) trigger on a link.
2. Wait **2** **Hours**.
3. A [Browser Notification](/nodes/extension/browsernotification/) reminds you to read the link.

## Common issues

* **A long wait never finished.** It ran in the web app, or was shorter than a minute, and the tab was closed. Run long waits from the extension.
* **The run resumed a little late.** Durable waits resume within about a minute of the deadline. For precise short delays, keep the wait under a minute.
* **All items arrived at once after the wait.** That is expected: Wait pauses once for the whole input. Use a Loop for per-item pauses.

## Related nodes

* [Wait For Approval](/nodes/builtin/flow/wait-for-approval/): pause until a person approves or rejects.
* [Poll Until](/nodes/builtin/flow/polluntil/): check a URL on an interval until it reports done.
* [Wait For Element](/nodes/extension/ui/wait-for-element/): wait for something to appear on a page.
* [Loop](/nodes/builtin/flow/loop/): repeat steps, with a Wait inside for per-item pauses.