# Request payload size exceeds the limit: 50000 bytes

**URL:** <https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/request-payload-size-exceeds-the-limit-50000-bytes/54939>\
**Category:** Gemini API\
**Tags:** models\
**Created:** [December 15, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/request-payload-size-exceeds-the-limit-50000-bytes/54939 "2024-12-15T06:11:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oliver\_Hannaford](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/oliver_hannaford/32/33145_2.png) [@Oliver\_Hannaford](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/Oliver_Hannaford)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2024, 6:11am UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/request-payload-size-exceeds-the-limit-50000-bytes/54939/1 "2024-12-15T06:11:40Z")

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I keep hitting this error via the API: Request payload size exceeds the limit: 50000 bytes.

It’s strange because when I use the exact same file in the AI studio the token count is about 17,000 (far below the 1M limit).

Tried both 1.5 and 2.0 models.

Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![jkirstaetter](https://d1dlmcr85iqnpo.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/discuss.ai.google.dev/jkirstaetter/32/61_2.png) [@jkirstaetter](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/u/jkirstaetter)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/request-payload-size-exceeds-the-limit-50000-bytes/54939/3 "2024-12-16T15:15:12Z")

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Hi,

Welcome to the forum.

Consider to use the File API for larger files and pass in the resulting URL to your API request.