diff --git a/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.test.ts b/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.test.ts
index 52d3927a5..cc7231051 100644
--- a/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.test.ts
+++ b/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.test.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import { KnownErrors } from "@hexclave/shared/dist/known-errors";
 import { describe, expect, it, vi } from "vitest";
+import * as errors from "@hexclave/shared/dist/utils/errors";
 import { Result } from "@hexclave/shared/dist/utils/results";
 import { analyticsOptionsFromJson, analyticsOptionsToJson, getSessionReplayOptions, SessionRecorder } from "./session-replay";
 
@@ -312,6 +313,62 @@ describe("SessionRecorder flush", () => {
     }
   });
 
+  it("logs a distinct 413 warning and drops the buffered events when the server rejects a batch as too large", async () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    const captureWarningSpy = vi.spyOn(errors, "captureWarning").mockImplementation(() => {});
+
+    const storageKey = `hexclave:session-replay:v1:test-project`;
+    localStorage.setItem(storageKey, JSON.stringify({
+      session_id: "test-session",
+      created_at_ms: Date.now(),
+      last_activity_ms: Date.now(),
+    }));
+
+    let calls = 0;
+    const recorder = new SessionRecorder(
+      {
+        projectId: "test-project",
+        sendBatch: async () => {
+          calls += 1;
+          // A poorly-compressible event can clear the client-side caps yet still
+          // exceed the server's body limit after gzip → 413.
+          return Result.ok(new Response("payload too large", { status: 413 }));
+        },
+      },
+      {},
+    );
+
+    try {
+      const eventA = { type: 3, timestamp: Date.now(), data: "a" };
+      const eventB = { type: 3, timestamp: Date.now(), data: "b" };
+      const sizeOf = (e: unknown) => new TextEncoder().encode(JSON.stringify(e)).byteLength;
+
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-member-access
+      (recorder as any)._events = [eventA, eventB];
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-member-access
+      (recorder as any)._eventSizes = [sizeOf(eventA), sizeOf(eventB)];
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-member-access
+      (recorder as any)._approxBytes = sizeOf(eventA) + sizeOf(eventB);
+
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-member-access, @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-call
+      await (recorder as any)._flush({ keepalive: false });
+
+      // The 413 stops the loop; no retry of the rejected batch.
+      expect(calls).toBe(1);
+      expect(captureWarningSpy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
+      const warned = captureWarningSpy.mock.calls[0]?.[1];
+      expect(warned).toBeInstanceOf(Error);
+      expect((warned as Error).message).toContain("413");
+      // Both buffered events are reported as dropped.
+      expect((warned as Error).message).toContain("2 buffered event");
+    } finally {
+      recorder.stop();
+      localStorage.removeItem(storageKey);
+      captureWarningSpy.mockRestore();
+      vi.useRealTimers();
+    }
+  });
+
   it("silently disables when client interface returns ANALYTICS_NOT_ENABLED as an error", async () => {
     vi.useFakeTimers();
 
diff --git a/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.ts b/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.ts
index bd21f24b7..db3294260 100644
--- a/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.ts
+++ b/packages/template/src/lib/hexclave-app/apps/implementations/session-replay.ts
@@ -108,10 +108,14 @@ const MAX_EVENTS_PER_BATCH = 200;
 const MAX_APPROX_BYTES_PER_BATCH = 512_000;
 // Uncompressed per-batch target; the transport gzips before sending.
 const MAX_BATCH_UNCOMPRESSED_BYTES = 900_000;
-// Single events above the server's decompressed budget can never be accepted,
-// so drop them. Keep in sync with MAX_DECOMPRESSED_BYTES in the backend route
-// (binary mebibytes, matching the server's gunzip maxOutputLength).
-const MAX_SINGLE_EVENT_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024;
+// The server gunzips the whole batch (envelope + events) and rejects anything
+// whose decompressed size exceeds MAX_DECOMPRESSED_BYTES (8 MiB) in the backend
+// route. Since a single oversized event is sent alone, reserve headroom for the
+// JSON envelope (session/batch ids, timestamps, wrapper keys) so an event that
+// passes this check can't render a batch that trips the server's cap by a few
+// hundred bytes. Keep the server's MAX_DECOMPRESSED_BYTES >= this + the margin.
+const BATCH_ENVELOPE_OVERHEAD_BYTES = 1024;
+const MAX_SINGLE_EVENT_BYTES = 8 * 1024 * 1024 - BATCH_ENVELOPE_OVERHEAD_BYTES;
 
 // Reused across the emit hot path to avoid per-event allocation.
 const textEncoder = new TextEncoder();
@@ -350,7 +354,21 @@ export class SessionRecorder {
         }
 
         if (!res.data.ok) {
-          captureWarning("SessionRecorder.flush", new Error(`SessionRecorder flush failed: ${res.data.status} ${await res.data.text()}`));
+          // On any non-2xx we stop the loop, so this batch and every event still
+          // buffered behind it are dropped (not retried). Count them for the log.
+          const droppedCount = batchEvents.length + (allEvents.length - offset);
+          if (res.data.status === 413) {
+            // The payload exceeded the server's body limit despite the client-side
+            // size caps — most likely a single poorly-compressible event (e.g. an
+            // embedded image/canvas) that gzipped above the wire limit. Distinct
+            // from other failures because the caps are supposed to prevent it.
+            captureWarning(
+              "SessionRecorder.flush",
+              new Error(`Session replay batch rejected with 413 (payload too large) despite client-side size caps; dropping ${droppedCount} buffered event(s). A poorly-compressible event likely exceeded the server's body limit after gzip.`),
+            );
+            return;
+          }
+          captureWarning("SessionRecorder.flush", new Error(`SessionRecorder flush failed (dropping ${droppedCount} buffered event(s)): ${res.data.status} ${await res.data.text()}`));
           return;
         }
       }