Unless you changed the default, this will be 16 MB:

mysql> SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name="max_allowed_packet";
+--------------------+----------+
| Variable_name      | Value    |
+--------------------+----------+
| max_allowed_packet | 16777216 |
+--------------------+----------+

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