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Claude Developers: The Claude API raises the maximum request size for Messages and Token Counting from 32 MB to 128 MB, for image-heavy requests such as long computer-use sessions and large PDFs
Posted on X by Claude Developers (@ClaudeDevs) on 29 October 2026. The headline is our summary; the post itself is quoted below.
Claude Developers@ClaudeDevs ·
We've raised the max request size for Messages and Token Counting on the Claude API from 32 MB to 128 MB. Image-heavy requests like long…
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