diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 722637d..b13c332 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Tool for generation samples based on OpenAPI payload/response schema
 - Supports `allOf`
 - Supports `additionalProperties`
 - Uses `default`, `const`, `enum` and `examples` where possible
-- Full array support: supports `minItems`, and tuples (`items` as an array)
+- Good array support: supports `contains`, `minItems`, `maxItems`, and tuples (`items` as an array)
 - Supports `minLength`, `maxLength`, `min`, `max`, `exclusiveMinimum`, `exclusiveMaximum`
 - Supports the next `string` formats:
   - email
diff --git a/src/samplers/array.js b/src/samplers/array.js
index 2ef706c..d018fa4 100644
--- a/src/samplers/array.js
+++ b/src/samplers/array.js
@@ -2,20 +2,22 @@ import { traverse } from '../traverse';
 export function sampleArray(schema, options = {}, spec, context) {
   const depth = (context && context.depth || 1);
 
-  let arrayLength = schema.minItems || 1;
-  if (Array.isArray(schema.items)) {
-    arrayLength = Math.max(arrayLength, schema.items.length);
+  let arrayLength = Math.min(schema.maxItems ?? Infinity, schema.minItems || 1);
+  // for the sake of simplicity, we're treating `contains` in a similar way to `items`
+  const items = schema.items || schema.contains;
+  if (Array.isArray(items)) {
+    arrayLength = Math.max(arrayLength, items.length);
   }
 
   let itemSchemaGetter = itemNumber => {
     if (Array.isArray(schema.items)) {
-      return schema.items[itemNumber] || {};
+      return items[itemNumber] || {};
     }
-    return schema.items || {};
+    return items || {};
   };
 
   let res = [];
-  if (!schema.items) return res;
+  if (!items) return res;
 
   for (let i = 0; i < arrayLength; i++) {
     let itemSchema = itemSchemaGetter(i);
diff --git a/test/unit/array.spec.js b/test/unit/array.spec.js
index 664fe27..5c2acb8 100644
--- a/test/unit/array.spec.js
+++ b/test/unit/array.spec.js
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@ describe('sampleArray', () => {
   it('should return elements of correct type', () => {
     res = sampleArray({items: {type: 'number'}});
     expect(res).to.deep.equal([0]);
+    res = sampleArray({contains: {type: 'number'}});
+    expect(res).to.deep.equal([0]);
+  });
+
+  it('should return correct number of elements based on maxItems', () => {
+    res = sampleArray({items: {type: 'number'}, maxItems: 0});
+    expect(res).to.deep.equal([]);
   });
 
   it('should return correct number of elements based on minItems', () => {
@@ -18,7 +25,7 @@ describe('sampleArray', () => {
     expect(res).to.deep.equal([0, 0, 0]);
   });
 
-  it('should correcly sample tuples', () => {
+  it('should correctly sample tuples', () => {
     res = sampleArray({items: [{type: 'number'}, {type: 'string'}, {}]});
     expect(res).to.deep.equal([0, 'string', null]);
   });