diff --git a/CHANGES/+resource-budget.bugfix b/CHANGES/+resource-budget.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b957a59e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGES/+resource-budget.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Take advantage of pulpcore's `ResourceBudget` feature which enables the sync pipeline to keep disk usage down without an excessive performance hit.
diff --git a/pulp_container/app/tasks/synchronize.py b/pulp_container/app/tasks/synchronize.py
index 72cfc2022..aa2ffa051 100644
--- a/pulp_container/app/tasks/synchronize.py
+++ b/pulp_container/app/tasks/synchronize.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from pulpcore.plugin.stages import (
     ArtifactDownloader,
+    ArtifactResourceBudget,
     ArtifactSaver,
     DeclarativeVersion,
     QueryExistingArtifacts,
@@ -68,11 +69,13 @@ def pipeline_stages(self, new_version):
             list: List of :class:`~pulpcore.plugin.stages.Stage` instances
 
         """
+        resource_budget = ArtifactResourceBudget.from_settings()
+
         pipeline = [
             self.first_stage,
             QueryExistingArtifacts(),
-            ArtifactDownloader(),
-            ArtifactSaver(),
+            ArtifactDownloader(resource_budget=resource_budget),
+            ArtifactSaver(resource_budget=resource_budget),
             QueryExistingContents(),
             ContainerContentSaver(),
             RemoteArtifactSaver(),
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f3e5826f5..592522ce2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ classifiers=[
 requires-python = ">=3.11"
 dependencies = [
   "jsonschema>=4.4,<4.27",
-  "pulpcore>=3.73.2,<3.115",
+  "pulpcore>=3.111.0,<3.115",
   "pyjwt[crypto]>=2.4,<2.13",
   "pysequoia>=0.1.33,<0.2.0"
 ]