diff --git a/packages/insomnia/src/common/constants.ts b/packages/insomnia/src/common/constants.ts
index 7f201938dfd..c8c0bedca27 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia/src/common/constants.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia/src/common/constants.ts
@@ -590,3 +590,6 @@ export const EXPORT_TYPE_ENVIRONMENT = 'environment';
 export const EXPORT_TYPE_API_SPEC = 'api_spec';
 export const EXPORT_TYPE_PROTO_FILE = 'proto_file';
 export const EXPORT_TYPE_PROTO_DIRECTORY = 'proto_directory';
+
+// (ms) curently server timeout is 30s
+export const INSOMNIA_FETCH_TIME_OUT = 30_000;
diff --git a/packages/insomnia/src/ui/insomniaFetch.ts b/packages/insomnia/src/ui/insomniaFetch.ts
index 48e25926bdb..d2d976cad35 100644
--- a/packages/insomnia/src/ui/insomniaFetch.ts
+++ b/packages/insomnia/src/ui/insomniaFetch.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 
-import { getApiBaseURL, getClientString, PLAYWRIGHT } from '../common/constants';
-import { delay } from '../common/misc';
+import { getApiBaseURL, getClientString, INSOMNIA_FETCH_TIME_OUT, PLAYWRIGHT } from '../common/constants';
 
 interface FetchConfig {
   method: 'POST' | 'PUT' | 'GET' | 'DELETE' | 'PATCH';
@@ -13,26 +12,6 @@ interface FetchConfig {
   headers?: Record<string, string>;
 }
 
-const exponentialBackOff = async (url: string, init: RequestInit, retries = 0): Promise<Response> => {
-  try {
-    const response = await fetch(url, init);
-    if (response.status === 502 && retries < 5) {
-      retries++;
-      await delay(retries * 1000);
-      console.log(`Received 502 from ${url} retrying`);
-      return exponentialBackOff(url, init, retries);
-    }
-    if (!response.ok) {
-      // TODO: review error status code behaviour with backend, should we parse errors here and return response
-      // or should we rethrow an error with a response object inside? should we be exposing errors to the app UI?
-      console.log(`Response not OK: ${response.status} for ${url}`);
-    }
-    return response;
-  } catch (err) {
-    throw err;
-  }
-};
-
 // Adds headers, retries and opens deep links returned from the api
 export async function insomniaFetch<T = void>({ method, path, data, sessionId, organizationId, origin, headers }: FetchConfig): Promise<T> {
   const config: RequestInit = {
@@ -47,15 +26,25 @@ export async function insomniaFetch<T = void>({ method, path, data, sessionId, o
       ...(PLAYWRIGHT ? { 'X-Mockbin-Test': 'true' } : {}),
     },
     ...(data ? { body: JSON.stringify(data) } : {}),
+    signal: AbortSignal.timeout(INSOMNIA_FETCH_TIME_OUT),
   };
   if (sessionId === undefined) {
     throw new Error(`No session ID provided to ${method}:${path}`);
   }
-  const response = await exponentialBackOff((origin || getApiBaseURL()) + path, config);
-  const uri = response.headers.get('x-insomnia-command');
-  if (uri) {
-    window.main.openDeepLink(uri);
+
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch((origin || getApiBaseURL()) + path, config);
+    const uri = response.headers.get('x-insomnia-command');
+    if (uri) {
+      window.main.openDeepLink(uri);
+    }
+    const isJson = response.headers.get('content-type')?.includes('application/json') || path.match(/\.json$/);
+    return isJson ? response.json() : response.text();
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err.name === 'AbortError') {
+      throw new Error('insomniaFetch timed out');
+    } else {
+      throw err;
+    }
   }
-  const isJson = response.headers.get('content-type')?.includes('application/json') || path.match(/\.json$/);
-  return isJson ? response.json() : response.text();
 }