diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 952034a16b..7c74a00c2f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3973,6 +3973,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "sha2",
+ "smallvec",
  "smol_str",
  "socket2 0.5.5",
  "sync_wrapper",
@@ -5107,6 +5108,9 @@ name = "smallvec"
 version = "1.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "62bb4feee49fdd9f707ef802e22365a35de4b7b299de4763d44bfea899442ff9"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "smol_str"
diff --git a/proxy/Cargo.toml b/proxy/Cargo.toml
index f075c718a7..dc2aa93975 100644
--- a/proxy/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxy/Cargo.toml
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ postgres-native-tls.workspace = true
 postgres-protocol.workspace = true
 redis.workspace = true
 smol_str.workspace = true
+smallvec = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 
 workspace_hack.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/proxy/src/cache/project_info.rs b/proxy/src/cache/project_info.rs
index 6dea1c8f3f..794e95d84c 100644
--- a/proxy/src/cache/project_info.rs
+++ b/proxy/src/cache/project_info.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use std::{
-    collections::HashSet,
     sync::{atomic::AtomicU64, Arc},
     time::Duration,
 };
@@ -7,6 +6,7 @@ use std::{
 use dashmap::DashMap;
 use hashlink::LruCache;
 use parking_lot::Mutex;
+use smallvec::SmallVec;
 use smol_str::SmolStr;
 use tokio::time::Instant;
 use tracing::info;
@@ -60,7 +60,27 @@ pub struct ProjectInfoCacheImpl {
     ip_cache: Mutex<LruCache<SmolStr, Entry<Arc<Vec<IpPattern>>>>>,
     role_cache: Mutex<LruCache<(SmolStr, SmolStr), Entry<AuthSecret>>>,
 
-    project2ep: DashMap<SmolStr, HashSet<SmolStr>>,
+    // endpoints per project:
+    // P90:  1
+    // P99:  2
+    // P995: 3
+    // P999: 10
+    // P9999: 186
+    //
+    // Assuming 1 million projects with this distribution:
+    // (0.9 * 1 + 0.09 * 2 + 0.005 * 3 + 0.004 * 10 + 0.0009 * 186) * 1,000,000
+    // =~ 1,500,000 endpoints
+    //
+    // 1,000,000 * size_of(SmolStr) = 24MB
+    // 1,500,000 * size_of(SmolStr) = 36MB
+    // SmallVec inline overhead: 8B * 0.9 * 1,000,000 = 7.2MB
+    // SmallVec outline overhead: 32B * 0.1 * 1,000,000 = 3.2MB
+    //
+    // Total size: 70.4MB.
+    //
+    // We do not need to prune this hashmap and can safely
+    // keep it in memory up until 100s of millions of projects
+    project2ep: DashMap<SmolStr, SmallVec<[SmolStr; 1]>>,
 
     start_time: Instant,
     ttl: Duration,
@@ -204,7 +224,7 @@ impl ProjectInfoCacheImpl {
         self.project2ep
             .entry(project_id.clone())
             .or_default()
-            .insert(endpoint_id.clone());
+            .push(endpoint_id.clone());
     }
 
     fn get_cache_times(&self) -> (Instant, Option<Instant>) {
diff --git a/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml b/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
index dbd46054a4..9fe76d3dad 100644
--- a/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
+++ b/workspace_hack/Cargo.toml
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ rustls = { version = "0.21", features = ["dangerous_configuration"] }
 scopeguard = { version = "1" }
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["alloc", "derive"] }
 serde_json = { version = "1", features = ["raw_value"] }
-smallvec = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["write"] }
+smallvec = { version = "1", default-features = false, features = ["serde", "write"] }
 subtle = { version = "2" }
 time = { version = "0.3", features = ["local-offset", "macros", "serde-well-known"] }
 tokio = { version = "1", features = ["fs", "io-std", "io-util", "macros", "net", "process", "rt-multi-thread", "signal", "test-util"] }