diff --git a/KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md b/KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
index 97b28096d..0f2940300 100644
--- a/KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
+++ b/KNOWLEDGE_BASE.md
@@ -482,7 +482,7 @@ An app can use the same `/api/v1` for you with signed requests. It keeps an SSH
 
 A signed request sees what the web shows you, such as your own pending commits. It can also, with the web's validation, moderation, and rate limits:
 
-- read your account, logs, replies, notifications (including grouped activity), and starred commits;
+- read your account, logs, replies (50 a page, or fewer with `limit`), notifications (including grouped activity), and starred commits;
 - commit, reply, and quote, with images, and delete your commits;
 - preview commit drafts without publishing them;
 - follow or unfollow, mute or unmute, and block or unblock, and list who you muted and blocked;
diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyController.php
index 7506a4a07..e39486c86 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyController.php
@@ -16,6 +16,6 @@
 {
     public function index(ListApiCommitRepliesRequest $request, #[CurrentUser] User $user, Commit $commit, CommitRepliesQuery $replies): AnonymousResourceCollection
     {
-        return CommitResource::collection($replies->paginate($commit, $user, $request->boolean('newest'))->withQueryString());
+        return CommitResource::collection($replies->paginate($commit, $user, $request->boolean('newest'), $request->integer('limit', CommitRepliesQuery::PER_PAGE))->withQueryString());
     }
 }
diff --git a/app/Http/Requests/ListApiCommitRepliesRequest.php b/app/Http/Requests/ListApiCommitRepliesRequest.php
index 359a8f9b0..f1a6312dd 100644
--- a/app/Http/Requests/ListApiCommitRepliesRequest.php
+++ b/app/Http/Requests/ListApiCommitRepliesRequest.php
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ public function authorize(): Response
     }
 
     /**
-     * Newest first continues the next_cursor of a reply preview, as on the web.
+     * Newest first continues the next_cursor of a reply preview, as on the web, and a limit asks for fewer replies a
+     * page, as the web's threads do.
      *
      * @return array<string, list<string>>
      */
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ public function rules(): array
     {
         return [
             'newest' => ['sometimes', 'boolean'],
+            'limit' => ['sometimes', 'integer', 'between:1,50'],
         ];
     }
 }
diff --git a/tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyControllerTest.php b/tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyControllerTest.php
index adfc109fc..f4336b4c3 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyControllerTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/Controllers/Api/CommitReplyControllerTest.php
@@ -141,6 +141,31 @@
         ->assertJsonPath('data.*.body', ['Reply 1', 'Reply 0']);
 });
 
+it('lists fewer replies a page when asked, as the web does, and keeps asking on the next page', function (): void {
+    $parent = Commit::factory()->create();
+
+    Commit::factory()->for($parent, 'parent')->count(12)
+        ->state(new Sequence(fn (Sequence $sequence): array => [
+            'body' => "Reply {$sequence->index}",
+            'created_at' => now()->subMinutes(100 - $sequence->index),
+        ]))
+        ->create();
+
+    $first = signedApiRequest($this->keyPair, 'GET', route('api-commit-reply.index', [$parent, 'limit' => 5]));
+
+    $first->assertOk()->assertJsonPath('data.*.body', ['Reply 0', 'Reply 1', 'Reply 2', 'Reply 3', 'Reply 4']);
+
+    signedApiRequest($this->keyPair, 'GET', (string) $first->json('links.next'))
+        ->assertOk()
+        ->assertJsonPath('data.*.body', ['Reply 5', 'Reply 6', 'Reply 7', 'Reply 8', 'Reply 9']);
+});
+
+it('rejects a page of replies outside 1 to 50', function (int $limit): void {
+    signedApiRequest($this->keyPair, 'GET', route('api-commit-reply.index', [Commit::factory()->create(), 'limit' => $limit]))
+        ->assertUnprocessable()
+        ->assertJsonValidationErrors('limit');
+})->with([0, 51]);
+
 it('hides the replies of commits the user may not see', function (): void {
     $parent = Commit::factory()->pending()->create();
     Commit::factory()->for($parent, 'parent')->create();