diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a18cbd7..678bf69 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 <!-- next-header -->
 
 ## [Unreleased] - ReleaseDate
+### Changed
+- insert: increase max size of frames to improve throughput ([#130]).
+
+[#130]: https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-rs/issues/130
 
 ## [0.12.1] - 2024-08-07
 ### Added
diff --git a/src/insert.rs b/src/insert.rs
index c744ca0..beab5a4 100644
--- a/src/insert.rs
+++ b/src/insert.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
 use hyper::{self, Request};
 use replace_with::replace_with_or_abort;
 use serde::Serialize;
+use static_assertions::const_assert;
 use tokio::{
     task::JoinHandle,
     time::{Instant, Sleep},
@@ -18,8 +19,13 @@ use crate::{
     rowbinary, Client, Compression,
 };
 
-const BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 128 * 1024;
-const MIN_CHUNK_SIZE: usize = BUFFER_SIZE - 1024; // slightly less to avoid extra reallocations
+// The desired max frame size.
+const BUFFER_SIZE: usize = 256 * 1024;
+// Threshold to send a chunk. Should be slightly less than `BUFFER_SIZE`
+// to avoid extra reallocations in case of a big last row.
+const MIN_CHUNK_SIZE: usize = BUFFER_SIZE - 2048;
+
+const_assert!(BUFFER_SIZE.is_power_of_two()); // to use the whole buffer's capacity
 
 /// Performs one `INSERT`.
 ///