diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/config.go b/cmd/neofs-node/config.go
index b021f2b4d..69587c1db 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/config.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/config.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node/pkg/morph/client"
 	nmwrapper "github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node/pkg/morph/client/netmap/wrapper"
 	"github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node/pkg/network"
-	"github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node/pkg/services/object"
 	tokenStorage "github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node/pkg/services/session/storage"
 	"github.com/nspcc-dev/neofs-node/pkg/util/logger"
 	"github.com/spf13/viper"
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ const (
 
 	// config keys for cfgGRPC
 	cfgListenAddress = "grpc.endpoint"
+	cfgMaxMsgSize    = "grpc.maxmessagesize"
 
 	// config keys for cfgMorph
 	cfgMorphRPCAddress = "morph.endpoint"
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ const (
 	cfgMaxObjectSize = "node.maxobjectsize" // get value from chain
 )
 
+const (
+	addressSize = 72 // 32 bytes oid, 32 bytes cid, 8 bytes protobuf encoding
+)
+
 type cfg struct {
 	ctx context.Context
 
@@ -166,6 +170,9 @@ func initCfg(path string) *cfg {
 	netAddr, err := network.AddressFromString(viperCfg.GetString(cfgBootstrapAddress))
 	fatalOnErr(err)
 
+	maxChunkSize := viperCfg.GetUint64(cfgMaxMsgSize) * 3 / 4 // 25% to meta, 75% to payload
+	maxAddrAmount := maxChunkSize / addressSize               // each address is about 72 bytes
+
 	return &cfg{
 		ctx:   context.Background(),
 		viper: viperCfg,
@@ -192,8 +199,8 @@ func initCfg(path string) *cfg {
 			maxObjectSize: viperCfg.GetUint64(cfgMaxObjectSize),
 		},
 		cfgGRPC: cfgGRPC{
-			maxChunkSize:  object.GRPCPayloadChunkSize,
-			maxAddrAmount: object.GRPCSearchAddrAmount,
+			maxChunkSize:  maxChunkSize,
+			maxAddrAmount: maxAddrAmount,
 		},
 		localAddr: netAddr,
 	}
@@ -228,6 +235,7 @@ func defaultConfiguration(v *viper.Viper) {
 
 	v.SetDefault(cfgMorphRPCAddress, "http://morph_chain.localtest.nspcc.ru:30333/")
 	v.SetDefault(cfgListenAddress, "127.0.0.1:50501") // listen address
+	v.SetDefault(cfgMaxMsgSize, 4<<20)                // transport msg limit 4 MiB
 
 	v.SetDefault(cfgAccountingContract, "1aeefe1d0dfade49740fff779c02cd4a0538ffb1")
 	v.SetDefault(cfgAccountingFee, "1")
diff --git a/cmd/neofs-node/grpc.go b/cmd/neofs-node/grpc.go
index be28a4303..e65205e57 100644
--- a/cmd/neofs-node/grpc.go
+++ b/cmd/neofs-node/grpc.go
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ func initGRPC(c *cfg) {
 	c.cfgGRPC.listener, err = net.Listen("tcp", c.viper.GetString(cfgListenAddress))
 	fatalOnErr(err)
 
-	c.cfgGRPC.server = grpc.NewServer()
+	c.cfgGRPC.server = grpc.NewServer(
+		grpc.MaxSendMsgSize(c.viper.GetInt(cfgMaxMsgSize)),
+	)
 }
 
 func serveGRPC(c *cfg) {
diff --git a/pkg/services/object/transport_splitter.go b/pkg/services/object/transport_splitter.go
index d0c3533ed..b3713f5d0 100644
--- a/pkg/services/object/transport_splitter.go
+++ b/pkg/services/object/transport_splitter.go
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
-const (
-	GRPCPayloadChunkSize = 1024 * 1024 * 3 // 4 MiB is a max limit, 3 MiB should be okay
-	GRPCSearchAddrAmount = 1024 * 32       // 64 bytes per addr, in total about 2 MiB
-)
-
 var (
 	errChunking = errors.New("can't split message to stream chunks")
 )