diff --git a/playground/ruff/src/Editor/settings.ts b/playground/ruff/src/Editor/settings.ts
index 411399da5d..7a7be3d95b 100644
--- a/playground/ruff/src/Editor/settings.ts
+++ b/playground/ruff/src/Editor/settings.ts
@@ -79,6 +79,15 @@ export function persistLocal({
   settingsSource: string;
   pythonSource: string;
 }) {
+  const totalLength = settingsSource.length + pythonSource.length;
+
+  // Don't persist large files to local storage because they can exceed the local storage quota
+  // The number here is picked rarely arbitrarily. Also note, JS uses UTF 16:
+  // that means the limit here is strings larger than 1MB (because UTf 16 uses 2 bytes per character)
+  if (totalLength > 500_000) {
+    return;
+  }
+
   localStorage.setItem(
     "source",
     JSON.stringify([settingsSource, pythonSource]),
diff --git a/playground/ty/src/Editor/persist.ts b/playground/ty/src/Editor/persist.ts
index 2adc5f3fe9..1767e14d0f 100644
--- a/playground/ty/src/Editor/persist.ts
+++ b/playground/ty/src/Editor/persist.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,18 @@ export async function restore(): Promise<Workspace | null> {
 }
 
 export function persistLocal(workspace: Workspace) {
+  let totalLength = 0;
+  for (const fileContent of Object.values(workspace.files)) {
+    totalLength += fileContent.length;
+
+    // Don't persist large files to local storage because they can exceed the local storage quota
+    // The number here is picked rarely arbitrarily. Also note, JS uses UTF 16:
+    // that means the limit here is strings larger than 1MB (because UTf 16 uses 2 bytes per character)
+    if (totalLength > 500_000) {
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+
   localStorage.setItem("workspace", JSON.stringify(workspace));
 }