diff --git a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
index 88bf91ea94..e69c2f7cd3 100644
--- a/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
+++ b/esphome/components/api/api_connection.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ namespace api {
 // Since each message could contain multiple protobuf messages when using packet batching,
 // this limits the number of messages processed, not the number of TCP packets.
 static constexpr uint8_t MAX_MESSAGES_PER_LOOP = 5;
+static constexpr uint8_t MAX_PING_RETRIES = 60;
+static constexpr uint16_t PING_RETRY_INTERVAL = 1000;
 
 static const char *const TAG = "api.connection";
 static const int ESP32_CAMERA_STOP_STREAM = 5000;