diff --git a/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/_exports/index.ts b/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/_exports/index.ts
index 6d756e96ecbe..e1fc8b940006 100644
--- a/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/_exports/index.ts
+++ b/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/_exports/index.ts
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ export * from '../it-utils'
 export * from '../runner/run'
 export * from '../runner/dryRun'
 export * from '../runner/collectMigrationMutations'
+export {MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY} from '../runner/constants'
diff --git a/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/constants.ts b/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/constants.ts
index 22eaa57c134b..d4269c574939 100644
--- a/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/constants.ts
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 export const MUTATION_ENDPOINT_MAX_BODY_SIZE = 1024 * 256 // 256KB
 export const DEFAULT_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY = 6
+export const MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY = 10
diff --git a/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/run.ts b/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/run.ts
index debcfe63beff..9bad754b6fd9 100644
--- a/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/run.ts
+++ b/packages/@sanity/migrate/src/runner/run.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ import {toFetchOptions} from '../fetch-utils/sanityRequestOptions'
 import {commitMutations} from '../destinations/commitMutations'
 import {collectMigrationMutations} from './collectMigrationMutations'
 import {batchMutations} from './utils/batchMutations'
-import {DEFAULT_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY, MUTATION_ENDPOINT_MAX_BODY_SIZE} from './constants'
+import {
+  DEFAULT_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY,
+  MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY,
+  MUTATION_ENDPOINT_MAX_BODY_SIZE,
+} from './constants'
 import {toSanityMutations} from './utils/toSanityMutations'
 
 interface MigrationRunnerOptions {
@@ -37,10 +41,11 @@ export async function* run(config: MigrationRunnerOptions, migration: Migration)
     ndjson(await fromExportEndpoint(config.api)) as AsyncIterableIterator<SanityDocument>,
   )
 
-  const concurrency = Math.min(
-    DEFAULT_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY,
-    config?.concurrency ?? DEFAULT_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY,
-  )
+  const concurrency = config?.concurrency ?? DEFAULT_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY
+
+  if (concurrency > MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY) {
+    throw new Error(`Concurrency exceeds maximum allowed value (${MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY})`)
+  }
 
   const batches = batchMutations(toSanityMutations(mutations), MUTATION_ENDPOINT_MAX_BODY_SIZE)
 
diff --git a/packages/sanity/src/_internal/cli/commands/migration/runMigrationCommand.ts b/packages/sanity/src/_internal/cli/commands/migration/runMigrationCommand.ts
index 91f4b9d5c741..84eb56f56d3f 100644
--- a/packages/sanity/src/_internal/cli/commands/migration/runMigrationCommand.ts
+++ b/packages/sanity/src/_internal/cli/commands/migration/runMigrationCommand.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import {
   collectMigrationMutations,
   fromExportArchive,
   fromExportEndpoint,
+  MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY,
   Migration,
   ndjson,
   run,
@@ -15,7 +16,10 @@ import {format} from './mutationFormatter'
 
 const helpText = `
 Options
-  --dryRun <boolean> Whether or not to dry run the migration. Default to true, to actually run the migration this has to be set to false
+  --dry <boolean> Whether or not to dry run the migration. Default to true, to actually run the migration this has to be set to false
+  --from-export <export.tar.gz> Use a local dataset export as source for migration instead of calling the Sanity API. Note: this is only supported for dry runs.
+  --concurrency <concurrent> How many mutation requests to run in parallel. Might be subject to an upper hard limit.
+
 
 Examples
   sanity migration run
@@ -26,6 +30,7 @@ Examples
 interface CreateFlags {
   dry?: 'true' | 'false' | 'yes' | 'no'
   'from-export'?: string
+  concurrency?: number
 }
 
 const tryExtensions = ['mjs', 'js', 'ts', 'cjs']
@@ -111,6 +116,18 @@ const createMigrationCommand: CliCommandDefinition<CreateFlags> = {
       throw new Error('Can only dry run migrations from a dataset export file')
     }
 
+    let concurrency = args.extOptions.concurrency
+    if (concurrency !== undefined) {
+      if (concurrency > MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY) {
+        concurrency = MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY
+        console.warn(
+          'Provided concurrency exceeds maximum and is is limited to %d',
+          MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY,
+        )
+      }
+      concurrency = MAX_MUTATION_CONCURRENCY
+    }
+
     const {dataset, projectId, apiHost, token} = apiClient({
       requireUser: true,
       requireProject: true,
@@ -126,7 +143,7 @@ const createMigrationCommand: CliCommandDefinition<CreateFlags> = {
 
     const progress = dry
       ? dryRun({api: apiConfig}, migration, context)
-      : run({api: apiConfig}, migration)
+      : run({api: apiConfig, concurrency}, migration)
 
     for await (const result of progress) {
       output.print(result)