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Hitesh KhannaHitesh Khanna 

how many custom profiles can be created in salesforce

ShivankurShivankur (Salesforce Developers) 
Hi Hitesh,

Administrators can create a maximum of 1,500 custom profiles per user license type.

Note: For Professional Edition, the maximum number of custom profiles they can create is 3. 

For more details:
https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000319518&type=1&mode=1

Hope above information helps, Please mark as Best Answer so that it can help others in the future.

Thanks.