diff --git a/doc/api/fundamentals.rst b/doc/api/fundamentals.rst
index b96bc6eccf..f57e9e2bbb 100644
--- a/doc/api/fundamentals.rst
+++ b/doc/api/fundamentals.rst
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ respectively, or ``null`` if there is no such page. You can use those URLs to re
 respective page.
 
 The field ``results`` contains a list of objects representing the first results. For most
-objects, every page contains 50 results.
+objects, every page contains 50 results. You can specify a lower pagination size using the
+``page_size`` query parameter, but no more than 50.
 
 Conditional fetching
 --------------------
diff --git a/src/pretix/api/pagination.py b/src/pretix/api/pagination.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a417a3c87d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pretix/api/pagination.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from rest_framework.pagination import PageNumberPagination
+
+
+class Pagination(PageNumberPagination):
+    page_size_query_param = 'page_size'
+    max_page_size = 50
diff --git a/src/pretix/settings.py b/src/pretix/settings.py
index 8784ab68de..e9db10e07e 100644
--- a/src/pretix/settings.py
+++ b/src/pretix/settings.py
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ REST_FRAMEWORK = {
     'DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES': [
         'pretix.api.auth.permission.EventPermission',
     ],
-    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'rest_framework.pagination.PageNumberPagination',
+    'DEFAULT_PAGINATION_CLASS': 'pretix.api.pagination.Pagination',
     'DEFAULT_VERSIONING_CLASS': 'rest_framework.versioning.NamespaceVersioning',
     'PAGE_SIZE': 50,
     'DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES': (