diff --git a/crates/ty_python_semantic/resources/mdtest/call/union.md b/crates/ty_python_semantic/resources/mdtest/call/union.md
index b14cc427a51ac..ddb56cb51a38b 100644
--- a/crates/ty_python_semantic/resources/mdtest/call/union.md
+++ b/crates/ty_python_semantic/resources/mdtest/call/union.md
@@ -299,16 +299,16 @@ class RecursiveAttr2:
         self.i = 0
 
     def update(self):
-        self.i = (self.i + 1) % 9
+        self.i = (self.i + 1) % 4
 
-reveal_type(RecursiveAttr2().i)  # revealed: Unknown | Literal[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
+reveal_type(RecursiveAttr2().i)  # revealed: Unknown | Literal[0, 1, 2, 3]
 
 class RecursiveAttr3:
     def __init__(self):
         self.i = 0
 
     def update(self):
-        self.i = (self.i + 1) % 10
+        self.i = (self.i + 1) % 5
 
 # Going beyond the MAX_RECURSIVE_UNION_LITERALS limit:
 reveal_type(RecursiveAttr3().i)  # revealed: Unknown | int
diff --git a/crates/ty_python_semantic/src/types/builder.rs b/crates/ty_python_semantic/src/types/builder.rs
index 233b75277f409..c779ab0c1f95d 100644
--- a/crates/ty_python_semantic/src/types/builder.rs
+++ b/crates/ty_python_semantic/src/types/builder.rs
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ impl RecursivelyDefined {
 
 /// If the value ​​is defined recursively, widening is performed from fewer literal elements,
 /// resulting in faster convergence of the fixed-point iteration.
-const MAX_RECURSIVE_UNION_LITERALS: usize = 10;
+const MAX_RECURSIVE_UNION_LITERALS: usize = 5;
 /// If the value ​​is defined non-recursively, the fixed-point iteration will converge in one go,
 /// so in principle we can have as many literal elements as we want,
 /// but to avoid unintended huge computational loads, we limit it to 256.