diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 099e627..9888b15 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Unreleased
 - Fixes issue when getting streams that have multiple filters on single user property
 - Fixes issue where upper case file names would not be matched in `parse` 
+- Reduce batch size when deleting comment batches
 
 # v0.24.0
 - BREAKING: the `--context` option is now required. Users need to opt
diff --git a/cli/src/commands/delete.rs b/cli/src/commands/delete.rs
index b4b2266..8bd70f3 100644
--- a/cli/src/commands/delete.rs
+++ b/cli/src/commands/delete.rs
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ fn delete_comments_in_period(
         };
 
         // This is the maximum number of comments which the API permits deleting in a single call.
-        const DELETION_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 128;
+        const DELETION_BATCH_SIZE: usize = 32;
         // Buffer to store comment IDs to delete - allow it to be slightly larger than the deletion
         // batch size so that if there's an incomplete page it'll increase the counts.
         let mut comments_to_delete =