diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 41fc0b8098..08a95aff2b 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ bool AcceptToMemoryPoolWorker(CTxMemPool& pool, CValidationState &state, const C
             nLastTime = nNow;
             // -limitfreerelay unit is thousand-bytes-per-minute
             // At default rate it would take over a month to fill 1GB
-            if (dFreeCount >= GetArg("-limitfreerelay", DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY) * 10 * 1000)
+            if (dFreeCount + nSize >= GetArg("-limitfreerelay", DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY) * 10 * 1000)
                 return state.DoS(0, false, REJECT_INSUFFICIENTFEE, "rate limited free transaction");
             LogPrint("mempool", "Rate limit dFreeCount: %g => %g\n", dFreeCount, dFreeCount+nSize);
             dFreeCount += nSize;