diff --git a/docs/changelog/115041.yaml b/docs/changelog/115041.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f4c047c1569ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/changelog/115041.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+pr: 115041
+summary: Increase default `queue_capacity` to 10_000 and decrease max `queue_capacity`
+  to 100_000
+area: Machine Learning
+type: enhancement
+issues: []
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java
index ca789fee7b744..b298d486c9e03 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentAction.java
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public class StartTrainedModelDeploymentAction extends ActionType<CreateTrainedM
     public static final AllocationStatus.State DEFAULT_WAITFOR_STATE = AllocationStatus.State.STARTED;
     public static final int DEFAULT_NUM_ALLOCATIONS = 1;
     public static final int DEFAULT_NUM_THREADS = 1;
-    public static final int DEFAULT_QUEUE_CAPACITY = 1024;
+    public static final int DEFAULT_QUEUE_CAPACITY = 10_000;
     public static final Priority DEFAULT_PRIORITY = Priority.NORMAL;
 
     public StartTrainedModelDeploymentAction() {
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public static class Request extends MasterNodeRequest<Request> implements ToXCon
         /**
          * If the queue is created then we can OOM when we create the queue.
          */
-        private static final int MAX_QUEUE_CAPACITY = 1_000_000;
+        private static final int MAX_QUEUE_CAPACITY = 100_000;
 
         public static final ParseField MODEL_ID = new ParseField("model_id");
         public static final ParseField DEPLOYMENT_ID = new ParseField("deployment_id");
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentRequestTests.java b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentRequestTests.java
index 730d994fc5e35..46fc8a36c2c2b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentRequestTests.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/core/ml/action/StartTrainedModelDeploymentRequestTests.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public static Request createRandom() {
             request.setNumberOfAllocations(randomIntBetween(1, 8));
         }
         if (randomBoolean()) {
-            request.setQueueCapacity(randomIntBetween(1, 1000000));
+            request.setQueueCapacity(randomIntBetween(1, 100_000));
         }
         if (randomBoolean()) {
             request.setPriority(randomFrom(Priority.values()).toString());
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ public void testValidate_GivenQueueCapacityIsNegative() {
 
     public void testValidate_GivenQueueCapacityIsAtLimit() {
         Request request = createRandom();
-        request.setQueueCapacity(1_000_000);
+        request.setQueueCapacity(100_000);
 
         ActionRequestValidationException e = request.validate();
 
@@ -177,12 +177,12 @@ public void testValidate_GivenQueueCapacityIsAtLimit() {
 
     public void testValidate_GivenQueueCapacityIsOverLimit() {
         Request request = createRandom();
-        request.setQueueCapacity(1_000_001);
+        request.setQueueCapacity(100_001);
 
         ActionRequestValidationException e = request.validate();
 
         assertThat(e, is(not(nullValue())));
-        assertThat(e.getMessage(), containsString("[queue_capacity] must be less than 1000000"));
+        assertThat(e.getMessage(), containsString("[queue_capacity] must be less than 100000"));
     }
 
     public void testValidate_GivenTimeoutIsNegative() {
@@ -234,6 +234,6 @@ public void testDefaults() {
         assertThat(request.getNumberOfAllocations(), nullValue());
         assertThat(request.computeNumberOfAllocations(), equalTo(1));
         assertThat(request.getThreadsPerAllocation(), equalTo(1));
-        assertThat(request.getQueueCapacity(), equalTo(1024));
+        assertThat(request.getQueueCapacity(), equalTo(10_000));
     }
 }