diff --git a/docs/02-app/01-building-your-application/03-data-fetching/04-server-actions.mdx b/docs/02-app/01-building-your-application/03-data-fetching/04-server-actions.mdx
index 8e3d09a346720..8367bf20cfa02 100644
--- a/docs/02-app/01-building-your-application/03-data-fetching/04-server-actions.mdx
+++ b/docs/02-app/01-building-your-application/03-data-fetching/04-server-actions.mdx
@@ -382,6 +382,21 @@ export default function ExampleClientComponent({ myAction }) {
 
 In both cases, the form is interactive before hydration occurs. Although Server Actions have the additional benefit of not relying on client JavaScript, you can still compose additional behavior with Client Actions where desired without sacrificing interactivity.
 
+### Size Limitation
+
+By default, the maximum size of the request body sent to an Server Action is 1MB. This prevents large amounts of data being sent to the server, which consumes a lot of server resource to parse.
+
+However, you can configure this limit using the **experimental** `serverActionsBodySizeLimit` option. It can take the number of bytes or any string format supported by bytes, for example `1000`, `'500kb'` or `'3mb'`.
+
+```js filename="next.config.js"
+module.exports = {
+  experimental: {
+    serverActions: true,
+    serverActionsBodySizeLimit: '2mb',
+  },
+}
+```
+
 ## Examples
 
 ### Usage with Client Components
diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/entries.ts b/packages/next/src/build/entries.ts
index cbde86a55fed8..9aa223b91debc 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/entries.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/entries.ts
@@ -377,7 +377,8 @@ export function getEdgeServerEntry(opts: {
     middlewareConfig: Buffer.from(
       JSON.stringify(opts.middlewareConfig || {})
     ).toString('base64'),
-    serverActionsSizeLimit: opts.config.experimental.serverActionsSizeLimit,
+    serverActionsBodySizeLimit:
+      opts.config.experimental.serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
   }
 
   return {
diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/index.ts b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/index.ts
index 065fdd58248e7..e9b34ad67b17d 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/index.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/index.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export type EdgeSSRLoaderQuery = {
   incrementalCacheHandlerPath?: string
   preferredRegion: string | string[] | undefined
   middlewareConfig: string
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
 }
 
 /*
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ const edgeSSRLoader: webpack.LoaderDefinitionFunction<EdgeSSRLoaderQuery> =
       incrementalCacheHandlerPath,
       preferredRegion,
       middlewareConfig: middlewareConfigBase64,
-      serverActionsSizeLimit,
+      serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
     } = this.getOptions()
 
     const middlewareConfig: MiddlewareConfig = JSON.parse(
@@ -177,10 +177,10 @@ const edgeSSRLoader: webpack.LoaderDefinitionFunction<EdgeSSRLoaderQuery> =
       reactLoadableManifest,
       clientReferenceManifest: ${isServerComponent} ? rscManifest : null,
       serverActionsManifest: ${isServerComponent} ? rscServerManifest : null,
-      serverActionsSizeLimit: ${isServerComponent} ? ${
-      typeof serverActionsSizeLimit === 'undefined'
+      serverActionsBodySizeLimit: ${isServerComponent} ? ${
+      typeof serverActionsBodySizeLimit === 'undefined'
         ? 'undefined'
-        : JSON.stringify(serverActionsSizeLimit)
+        : JSON.stringify(serverActionsBodySizeLimit)
     } : undefined,
       subresourceIntegrityManifest,
       config: ${stringifiedConfig},
diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/render.ts b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/render.ts
index 0dbd1b09ca14b..bb407509e8b23 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/render.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-edge-ssr-loader/render.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export function getRender({
   clientReferenceManifest,
   subresourceIntegrityManifest,
   serverActionsManifest,
-  serverActionsSizeLimit,
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
   config,
   buildId,
   nextFontManifest,
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ export function getRender({
   subresourceIntegrityManifest?: Record<string, string>
   clientReferenceManifest?: ClientReferenceManifest
   serverActionsManifest: any
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
   appServerMod: any
   config: NextConfigComplete
   buildId: string
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ export function getRender({
         disableOptimizedLoading: true,
         clientReferenceManifest,
         serverActionsManifest,
-        serverActionsSizeLimit,
+        serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
       },
       renderToHTML,
       incrementalCacheHandler,
diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/plugins/flight-client-entry-plugin.ts b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/plugins/flight-client-entry-plugin.ts
index 503cc59576ba3..6676f3e2f7099 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/plugins/flight-client-entry-plugin.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/plugins/flight-client-entry-plugin.ts
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ interface Options {
   appDir: string
   isEdgeServer: boolean
   useServerActions: boolean
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
 }
 
 const PLUGIN_NAME = 'ClientEntryPlugin'
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ export class ClientReferenceEntryPlugin {
   appDir: string
   isEdgeServer: boolean
   useServerActions: boolean
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
   assetPrefix: string
 
   constructor(options: Options) {
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ export class ClientReferenceEntryPlugin {
     this.appDir = options.appDir
     this.isEdgeServer = options.isEdgeServer
     this.useServerActions = options.useServerActions
-    this.serverActionsSizeLimit = options.serverActionsSizeLimit
+    this.serverActionsBodySizeLimit = options.serverActionsBodySizeLimit
     this.assetPrefix = !this.dev && !this.isEdgeServer ? '../' : ''
   }
 
diff --git a/packages/next/src/export/index.ts b/packages/next/src/export/index.ts
index 3e47934f0f943..321455c2afa51 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/export/index.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/export/index.ts
@@ -472,7 +472,8 @@ export default async function exportApp(
       largePageDataBytes: nextConfig.experimental.largePageDataBytes,
       serverComponents: options.hasAppDir,
       hasServerComponents: options.hasAppDir,
-      serverActionsSizeLimit: nextConfig.experimental.serverActionsSizeLimit,
+      serverActionsBodySizeLimit:
+        nextConfig.experimental.serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
       nextFontManifest: require(join(
         distDir,
         'server',
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/action-handler.ts b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/action-handler.ts
index ef9b68f4e6002..df631e1cd6f9d 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/action-handler.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/action-handler.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import type {
 } from 'http'
 import type { WebNextRequest } from '../base-http/web'
 import type { SizeLimit } from '../../../types'
+import type { ApiError } from '../api-utils'
 
 import {
   ACTION,
@@ -246,7 +247,7 @@ export async function handleAction({
   generateFlight,
   staticGenerationStore,
   requestStore,
-  serverActionsSizeLimit,
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
 }: {
   req: IncomingMessage
   res: ServerResponse
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@ export async function handleAction({
   }) => Promise<RenderResult>
   staticGenerationStore: StaticGenerationStore
   requestStore: RequestStore
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
 }): Promise<undefined | RenderResult | 'not-found'> {
   let actionId = req.headers[ACTION.toLowerCase()] as string
   const contentType = req.headers['content-type']
@@ -376,8 +377,20 @@ export async function handleAction({
             const { parseBody } =
               require('../api-utils/node') as typeof import('../api-utils/node')
 
-            const actionData =
-              (await parseBody(req, serverActionsSizeLimit ?? '1mb')) || ''
+            let actionData
+            try {
+              actionData =
+                (await parseBody(req, serverActionsBodySizeLimit ?? '1mb')) ||
+                ''
+            } catch (e: any) {
+              if (e && (e as ApiError).statusCode === 413) {
+                // Exceeded the size limit
+                e.message =
+                  e.message +
+                  '\nTo configure the body size limit for Server Actions, see: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/data-fetching/server-actions#size-limitation'
+              }
+              throw e
+            }
 
             if (isURLEncodedAction) {
               const formData = formDataFromSearchQueryString(actionData)
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx
index 6efdf7f4d691e..4caa4eccf0659 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/app-render.tsx
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
     nextFontManifest,
     supportsDynamicHTML,
     nextConfigOutput,
-    serverActionsSizeLimit,
+    serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
   } = renderOpts
 
   const appUsingSizeAdjust = nextFontManifest?.appUsingSizeAdjust
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ export async function renderToHTMLOrFlight(
       generateFlight,
       staticGenerationStore,
       requestStore,
-      serverActionsSizeLimit,
+      serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
     })
 
     if (actionRequestResult === 'not-found') {
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/types.ts b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/types.ts
index eceb13a0ac1fa..b2118fe52ea57 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/app-render/types.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/app-render/types.ts
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ export type RenderOptsPartial = {
     rawConfig?: boolean,
     silent?: boolean
   ) => Promise<NextConfigComplete>
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
 }
 
 export type RenderOpts = LoadComponentsReturnType & RenderOptsPartial
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/base-server.ts b/packages/next/src/server/base-server.ts
index b7f6dd76a9abf..4ef57fc721fb9 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/base-server.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/base-server.ts
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ export default abstract class Server<ServerOptions extends Options = Options> {
     supportsDynamicHTML?: boolean
     isBot?: boolean
     clientReferenceManifest?: ClientReferenceManifest
-    serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+    serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
     serverActionsManifest?: any
     nextFontManifest?: NextFontManifest
     renderServerComponentData?: boolean
@@ -1651,8 +1651,8 @@ export default abstract class Server<ServerOptions extends Options = Options> {
               incrementalCache,
               isRevalidate: isSSG,
               originalPathname: components.ComponentMod.originalPathname,
-              serverActionsSizeLimit:
-                this.nextConfig.experimental.serverActionsSizeLimit,
+              serverActionsBodySizeLimit:
+                this.nextConfig.experimental.serverActionsBodySizeLimit,
             }
           : {}),
         isDataReq,
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/config-schema.ts b/packages/next/src/server/config-schema.ts
index 91b906e2a5036..b52ad11987930 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/config-schema.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/config-schema.ts
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ const configSchema = {
         serverActions: {
           type: 'boolean',
         },
-        serverActionsSizeLimit: {
+        serverActionsBodySizeLimit: {
           oneOf: [
             {
               type: 'number',
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/config-shared.ts b/packages/next/src/server/config-shared.ts
index 95083e609c294..aeed79b241ef8 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/config-shared.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/config-shared.ts
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ export interface ExperimentalConfig {
   /**
    * Allows adjusting body parser size limit for server actions.
    */
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
 }
 
 export type ExportPathMap = {
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/config.ts b/packages/next/src/server/config.ts
index 19ee9ed28a695..6719f86197663 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/config.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/config.ts
@@ -416,9 +416,9 @@ function assignDefaults(
     result.output = 'standalone'
   }
 
-  if (typeof result.experimental?.serverActionsSizeLimit !== 'undefined') {
+  if (typeof result.experimental?.serverActionsBodySizeLimit !== 'undefined') {
     const value = parseInt(
-      result.experimental.serverActionsSizeLimit.toString()
+      result.experimental.serverActionsBodySizeLimit.toString()
     )
     if (isNaN(value) || value < 1) {
       throw new Error(
diff --git a/packages/next/src/server/render.tsx b/packages/next/src/server/render.tsx
index d8681ceb085c7..1e1ca4da11397 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/server/render.tsx
+++ b/packages/next/src/server/render.tsx
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ export type RenderOptsPartial = {
   isBot?: boolean
   runtime?: ServerRuntime
   serverComponents?: boolean
-  serverActionsSizeLimit?: SizeLimit
+  serverActionsBodySizeLimit?: SizeLimit
   customServer?: boolean
   crossOrigin?: 'anonymous' | 'use-credentials' | '' | undefined
   images: ImageConfigComplete
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/actions/app-action-size-limit-invalid.test.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/actions/app-action-size-limit-invalid.test.ts
index 83a4e5fd69478..a61e222c3872e 100644
--- a/test/e2e/app-dir/actions/app-action-size-limit-invalid.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/actions/app-action-size-limit-invalid.test.ts
@@ -21,14 +21,14 @@ createNextDescribe(
       return
     }
 
-    it('should error if serverActionsSizeLimit config is a negative number', async function () {
+    it('should error if serverActionsBodySizeLimit config is a negative number', async function () {
       await next.patchFile(
         'next.config.js',
         `
       module.exports = {
         experimental: {
           serverActions: true,
-          serverActionsSizeLimit: -3000,
+          serverActionsBodySizeLimit: -3000,
         },
       }
       `
@@ -40,14 +40,14 @@ createNextDescribe(
       expect(next.cliOutput).toContain(CONFIG_ERROR)
     })
 
-    it('should error if serverActionsSizeLimit config is invalid', async function () {
+    it('should error if serverActionsBodySizeLimit config is invalid', async function () {
       await next.patchFile(
         'next.config.js',
         `
       module.exports = {
         experimental: {
           serverActions: true,
-          serverActionsSizeLimit: 'testmb',
+          serverActionsBodySizeLimit: 'testmb',
         },
       }
       `
@@ -59,14 +59,14 @@ createNextDescribe(
       expect(next.cliOutput).toContain(CONFIG_ERROR)
     })
 
-    it('should error if serverActionsSizeLimit config is a negative size', async function () {
+    it('should error if serverActionsBodySizeLimit config is a negative size', async function () {
       await next.patchFile(
         'next.config.js',
         `
       module.exports = {
         experimental: {
           serverActions: true,
-          serverActionsSizeLimit: '-3000mb',
+          serverActionsBodySizeLimit: '-3000mb',
         },
       }
       `
@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ createNextDescribe(
     })
 
     if (!isNextDeploy) {
-      it('should respect the size set in serverActionsSizeLimit', async function () {
+      it('should respect the size set in serverActionsBodySizeLimit', async function () {
         await next.patchFile(
           'next.config.js',
           `
       module.exports = {
         experimental: {
           serverActions: true,
-          serverActionsSizeLimit: '1.5mb',
+          serverActionsBodySizeLimit: '1.5mb',
         },
       }
       `
@@ -112,9 +112,11 @@ createNextDescribe(
         await browser.elementByCss('#size-2mb').click()
 
         await check(() => {
-          return logs.some((log) =>
-            log.includes('Error: Body exceeded 1.5mb limit')
-          )
+          const fullLog = logs.join('')
+          return fullLog.includes('Error: Body exceeded 1.5mb limit') &&
+            fullLog.includes(
+              'To configure the body size limit for Server Actions, see'
+            )
             ? 'yes'
             : ''
         }, 'yes')