diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e7c5980bb..501c995f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 #### Fixes
 
 * [#2767](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape/pull/2767): Update rubocop to 1.88.0 and rubocop-rspec to 3.10.2 - [@ericproulx](https://github.com/ericproulx).
+* [#2770](https://github.com/ruby-grape/grape/pull/2770): Avoid per-entry array allocation in `Request#build_headers` - [@ericproulx](https://github.com/ericproulx).
 * Your contribution here.
 
 ### 3.3.0 (2026-06-20)
diff --git a/lib/grape/request.rb b/lib/grape/request.rb
index 12a0fca0d..c56237e1d 100644
--- a/lib/grape/request.rb
+++ b/lib/grape/request.rb
@@ -177,13 +177,19 @@ def make_params
       raise Grape::Exceptions::RequestError
     end
 
+    # Uses a plain `each_header` block instead of `each_header.with_object`:
+    # `with_object` can only pass the block one value plus the memo, so the
+    # `k, v` pair would be boxed into a throwaway Array on every header. A
+    # two-arg block receives `k`/`v` directly and allocates nothing extra.
     def build_headers
-      each_header.with_object(Grape::Util::Header.new) do |(k, v), headers|
+      headers = Grape::Util::Header.new
+      each_header do |k, v|
         next unless k.start_with? 'HTTP_'
 
         transformed_header = KNOWN_HEADERS.fetch(k) { -k[5..].tr('_', '-').downcase }
         headers[transformed_header] = v
       end
+      headers
     end
   end
 end