diff --git a/airbyte_cdk/sources/http_config.py b/airbyte_cdk/sources/http_config.py
index 289ed9a923..04702e44d3 100644
--- a/airbyte_cdk/sources/http_config.py
+++ b/airbyte_cdk/sources/http_config.py
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@
 # order to fix that, we will increase the requests library pool_maxsize. As there are many pieces of code that sets a requests.Session, we
 # are creating this variable here so that a change in one affects the other. This can be removed once we merge how we do HTTP requests in
 # one piece of code or once we make connection pool size configurable for each piece of code
-MAX_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE = 20
+MAX_CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE = 40
diff --git a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
index 7512c3722e..b67d53613f 100644
--- a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
+++ b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http.py
@@ -837,7 +837,7 @@ def test_duplicate_request_params_are_deduped(deduplicate_query_params, path, pa
 
 def test_connection_pool():
     stream = StubBasicReadHttpStream(authenticator=TokenAuthenticator("test-token"))
-    assert stream._http_client._session.adapters["https://"]._pool_connections == 20
+    assert stream._http_client._session.adapters["https://"]._pool_connections == 40
 
 
 class StubParentHttpStream(HttpStream, CheckpointMixin):
diff --git a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py
index 7dc8054b5f..48d396cb63 100644
--- a/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py
+++ b/unit_tests/sources/streams/http/test_http_client.py
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ def test_connection_pool():
     http_client = HttpClient(
         name="test", logger=MagicMock(), authenticator=TokenAuthenticator("test-token")
     )
-    assert http_client._session.adapters["https://"]._pool_connections == 20
+    assert http_client._session.adapters["https://"]._pool_connections == 40
 
 
 def test_valid_basic_send_request(mocker):