diff --git a/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIO.java b/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIO.java
index 8a04f76b6829..7033bdf40111 100644
--- a/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIO.java
+++ b/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIO.java
@@ -229,7 +229,8 @@ RequestResponseIO<RequestT, ResponseT> withSleeperSupplier(SerializableSupplier<
    * need for a {@link SerializableSupplier} instead of setting this directly is that some {@link
    * BackOff} implementations, such as {@link FluentBackoff} are not {@link Serializable}.
    */
-  RequestResponseIO<RequestT, ResponseT> withBackOffSupplier(SerializableSupplier<BackOff> value) {
+  public RequestResponseIO<RequestT, ResponseT> withBackOffSupplier(
+      SerializableSupplier<BackOff> value) {
     return new RequestResponseIO<>(
         rrioConfiguration, callConfiguration.toBuilder().setBackOffSupplier(value).build());
   }
diff --git a/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIOTest.java b/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIOTest.java
index cd0b29bab661..5a199225f396 100644
--- a/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIOTest.java
+++ b/sdks/java/io/rrio/src/test/java/org/apache/beam/io/requestresponse/RequestResponseIOTest.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.greaterThan;
 
 import com.google.auto.value.AutoValue;
+import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.PipelineResult;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.coders.Coder;
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.schemas.annotations.DefaultSchema;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.testing.PAssert;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.testing.TestPipeline;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Count;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Create;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.util.BackOff;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.util.SerializableSupplier;
@@ -333,6 +335,36 @@ public void givenCustomBackoff_thenBackoffBehaviorCustom() {
         greaterThan(0L));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void givenBoundedBackoff_thenRetriesStopAfterLimit() {
+    int maxRetries = 3;
+    Caller<Request, Response> caller = new CallerImpl(5);
+    SerializableSupplier<BackOff> boundedBackoffSupplier = () -> new BoundedBackOff(maxRetries);
+
+    Result<Response> result =
+        requests()
+            .apply(
+                "rrio",
+                RequestResponseIO.of(caller, RESPONSE_CODER)
+                    .withBackOffSupplier(boundedBackoffSupplier)
+                    .withMonitoringConfiguration(
+                        Monitoring.builder().setCountCalls(true).setCountFailures(true).build()));
+
+    PAssert.that(result.getResponses()).empty();
+    PAssert.thatSingleton(result.getFailures().apply("CountFailures", Count.globally()))
+        .isEqualTo(1L);
+
+    PipelineResult pipelineResult = pipeline.run();
+    MetricResults metrics = pipelineResult.metrics();
+    pipelineResult.waitUntilFinish();
+
+    assertThat(
+        getCounterResult(metrics, Call.class, Monitoring.callCounterNameOf(caller)),
+        equalTo((long) maxRetries + 1));
+    assertThat(
+        getCounterResult(metrics, Call.class, Monitoring.FAILURES_COUNTER_NAME), equalTo(1L));
+  }
+
   // TODO(damondouglas): Count metrics of caching after https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/29888
   // resolves.
   @Ignore
@@ -463,6 +495,29 @@ MetricName getCounterName() {
     }
   }
 
+  private static class BoundedBackOff implements BackOff, Serializable {
+    private final int maxRetries;
+    private int retries = 0;
+
+    private BoundedBackOff(int maxRetries) {
+      this.maxRetries = maxRetries;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void reset() {
+      retries = 0;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public long nextBackOffMillis() {
+      if (retries >= maxRetries) {
+        return BackOff.STOP;
+      }
+      retries++;
+      return 0L;
+    }
+  }
+
   private static class CustomBackOffSupplier implements SerializableSupplier<BackOff> {
 
     private final Counter counter = Metrics.counter(CustomBackOffSupplier.class, "custom_counter");