diff --git a/src/core/image_utils.js b/src/core/image_utils.js
index 8cef91dc0..1dfb5b740 100644
--- a/src/core/image_utils.js
+++ b/src/core/image_utils.js
@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-import { assert, shadow, unreachable, warn } from "../shared/util.js";
+import {
+  assert,
+  MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_CACHE,
+  shadow,
+  unreachable,
+  warn,
+} from "../shared/util.js";
 import { RefSetCache } from "./primitives.js";
 
 class BaseLocalCache {
@@ -160,7 +166,7 @@ class GlobalImageCache {
   }
 
   static get MAX_BYTE_SIZE() {
-    return shadow(this, "MAX_BYTE_SIZE", /* Forty megabytes = */ 40e6);
+    return shadow(this, "MAX_BYTE_SIZE", 5 * MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_CACHE);
   }
 
   constructor() {
diff --git a/src/display/api.js b/src/display/api.js
index e44dd78ba..00adb9044 100644
--- a/src/display/api.js
+++ b/src/display/api.js
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   info,
   InvalidPDFException,
   isArrayBuffer,
+  MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_CACHE,
   MissingPDFException,
   PasswordException,
   RenderingIntentFlag,
@@ -2811,7 +2812,6 @@ class WorkerTransport {
           pageProxy.objs.resolve(id, imageData);
 
           // Heuristic that will allow us not to store large data.
-          const MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_STORE = 8000000;
           if (imageData) {
             let length;
             if (imageData.bitmap) {
@@ -2821,7 +2821,7 @@ class WorkerTransport {
               length = imageData.data?.length || 0;
             }
 
-            if (length > MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_STORE) {
+            if (length > MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_CACHE) {
               pageProxy._maybeCleanupAfterRender = true;
             }
           }
diff --git a/src/shared/util.js b/src/shared/util.js
index d500aa9a7..873e26e0c 100644
--- a/src/shared/util.js
+++ b/src/shared/util.js
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ if (
 const IDENTITY_MATRIX = [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0];
 const FONT_IDENTITY_MATRIX = [0.001, 0, 0, 0.001, 0, 0];
 
+const MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_CACHE = 10e6; // Ten megabytes.
+
 // Represent the percentage of the height of a single-line field over
 // the font size. Acrobat seems to use this value.
 const LINE_FACTOR = 1.35;
@@ -1060,6 +1062,7 @@ export {
   isArrayEqual,
   LINE_DESCENT_FACTOR,
   LINE_FACTOR,
+  MAX_IMAGE_SIZE_TO_CACHE,
   MissingPDFException,
   objectFromMap,
   objectSize,