diff --git a/.changeset/legal-parrots-own.md b/.changeset/legal-parrots-own.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f3eee2c6f62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/legal-parrots-own.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'hive': patch
+---
+
+Increase default schema worker memory by 15% to handle larger schemas
diff --git a/deployment/services/environment.ts b/deployment/services/environment.ts
index ce4c0d7b907..1dcfd9e24d4 100644
--- a/deployment/services/environment.ts
+++ b/deployment/services/environment.ts
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ export function prepareEnvironment(input: {
         },
       },
       schemaService: {
-        memoryLimit: isProduction || isStaging ? '3584Mi' : '1Gi',
+        memoryLimit: isProduction ? '4Gi' : isStaging ? '3Gi' : '1Gi',
+        memoryRequests: isProduction || isStaging ? '2866Mi' : '512mi',
         replicas: isProduction || isStaging ? 6 : 1,
       },
       usageService: {
diff --git a/deployment/services/schema.ts b/deployment/services/schema.ts
index 1bf9704c0ff..8089b5cfddd 100644
--- a/deployment/services/schema.ts
+++ b/deployment/services/schema.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export function deploySchema({
         SCHEMA_CACHE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS: '150',
         SCHEMA_CACHE_TTL_MS: '65000' /* 65s */,
         SCHEMA_CACHE_SUCCESS_TTL_MS: String(hourInMS * 2),
-        COMPOSITION_WORKER_MAX_OLD_GENERATION_SIZE_MB: '716',
+        COMPOSITION_WORKER_MAX_OLD_GENERATION_SIZE_MB: environment.isProduction ? '832' : '512',
         OPENTELEMETRY_COLLECTOR_ENDPOINT:
           observability.enabled && observability.tracingEndpoint
             ? observability.tracingEndpoint
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ export function deploySchema({
       replicas: environment.podsConfig.schemaService.replicas,
       memory: {
         limit: environment.podsConfig.schemaService.memoryLimit,
+        requests: environment.podsConfig.schemaService.memoryRequests,
       },
       pdb: true,
     },