diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3b9151ff97..844b5144c2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 ### Improvements
 
+- Expose `MAX_EVENT_SIZE_BYTES` constant in SentryOptions ([#4962](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/4962))
 - Discard envelopes on `4xx` and `5xx` response ([#4950](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/4950))
   - This aims to not overwhelm Sentry after an outage or load shedding (including HTTP 429) where too many events are sent at once
 
diff --git a/sentry/api/sentry.api b/sentry/api/sentry.api
index 05d53d0b36..ef8e984f7c 100644
--- a/sentry/api/sentry.api
+++ b/sentry/api/sentry.api
@@ -3341,6 +3341,7 @@ public final class io/sentry/SentryOpenTelemetryMode : java/lang/Enum {
 
 public class io/sentry/SentryOptions {
 	public static final field DEFAULT_PROPAGATION_TARGETS Ljava/lang/String;
+	public static final field MAX_EVENT_SIZE_BYTES J
 	protected final field lock Lio/sentry/util/AutoClosableReentrantLock;
 	public fun <init> ()V
 	public fun addBundleId (Ljava/lang/String;)V
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryOptions.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryOptions.java
index 7cfdf24a72..835411cb61 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryOptions.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryOptions.java
@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ public class SentryOptions {
 
   @ApiStatus.Internal public static final @NotNull String DEFAULT_PROPAGATION_TARGETS = ".*";
 
+  /** Maximum size of an event in bytes. Events exceeding this limit will be reduced. */
+  public static final long MAX_EVENT_SIZE_BYTES = 1024 * 1024;
+
   /** Default Log level if not specified Default is DEBUG */
   static final SentryLevel DEFAULT_DIAGNOSTIC_LEVEL = SentryLevel.DEBUG;
 
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/EventSizeLimitingUtils.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/EventSizeLimitingUtils.java
index f6a83ebc57..c6c3d1a48b 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/EventSizeLimitingUtils.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/util/EventSizeLimitingUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package io.sentry.util;
 
+import static io.sentry.SentryOptions.MAX_EVENT_SIZE_BYTES;
+
 import io.sentry.Breadcrumb;
 import io.sentry.Hint;
 import io.sentry.SentryEvent;
@@ -22,7 +24,6 @@
 @ApiStatus.Internal
 public final class EventSizeLimitingUtils {
 
-  private static final long MAX_EVENT_SIZE_BYTES = 1024 * 1024;
   private static final int MAX_FRAMES_PER_STACK = 500;
   private static final int FRAMES_PER_SIDE = MAX_FRAMES_PER_STACK / 2;