[Bug] Anthropic API Error: Image exceeds dimension limit for many-image requests (2000px)
Status Closed — duplicate
Reported on v2.1.111
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — claude[bot]
Activity 14 comments · opened Apr 16, 2026 · closed May 1, 2026
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Bug Description
I got an error "An image in the conversation exceeds the dimension limit for many-image requests (2000px)" when sending in images with a prompt. This limitation severely hampers the ability to interact with the ai. When describing issues and interests. If you wanted to reduce your image processing load, perhaps you should add an image processor to slim the file down.
Environment Info
- Platform: darwin
- Terminal: intellij
- Version: 2.1.111
- Feedback ID: b24401f6-296c-440c-bda0-a6de0be51c7e
Errors
[{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at makeRequest (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:50:3448)\n at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-04-16T16:35:34.502Z"},{"error":"Error: Request was aborted.\n at makeRequest (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:50:3448)\n at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-04-16T16:35:54.055Z"},{"error":"Error: 400 {\"type\":\"error\",\"error\":{\"type\":\"invalid_request_error\",\"message\":\"messages.108.content.3.image.source.base64.data: At least one of the image dimensions exceed max allowed size for many-image requests: 2000 pixels\"},\"request_id\":\"req_011Ca88fnFzE4kYWeBt34Eu7\"}\n at generate (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:11:52701)\n at makeRequest (/$bunfs/root/src/entrypoints/cli.js:50:4943)\n at processTicksAndRejections (native:7:39)","timestamp":"2026-04-16T21:07:53.200Z"}]Showing cached comments. Read the full discussion on GitHub ↗
13 Comments
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I’m experiencing the same issue. Starting a new session is necessary because the old one only responds with that error.
This is a duplicate of #13480, which was fixed as of version 2.1.126.
It's not fixed
its not fixed at all
not fixed, its an API limit..
I got this error while Claude was scraping a website, impossible to control from my side.
I've been getting this error pretty frequently in the past couple weeks. It's similar to the 20mb wall that hits randomly (it would be nice if there was a size meter, similar to the context meter, so you could monitor that and know when it's coming), but this seems to be more of a bug.
Lately it's been hitting when it's close to max context before compression -- it just hit at 92% right now -- but it's not reliant on images being added to the conversation any time recently. For example, I just got it and hadn't pasted any images into the chat in over ten chats, so it seems to be some sort of context limit ceiling trigger that accumulates and hits?
Also: any reason images can't be pruned from context natively in Claude Code?
Getting this error every single time now when the session runs out of context and I have to start over.
Still not fixed @claude
<img width="1212" height="137" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/02b91285-7ee4-4df2-b8c0-8b17c8856a92" />
Still not fixed
<img width="1917" height="135" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ca060b54-6b4a-4809-ab04-bc71cd23a254" />
bug is STILL not fixed and harder than ever and chatgpt is laughing at you claude @claude
fixed on my side, when I updated from 2.1.123 to version 2.1.159