diff --git a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
index ea4c5ae2d..29c9ecd16 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
                        file that is in the archive.
     break_on_reject:   Stop the download process when encountering a video that
                        has been filtered out.
+    break_per_url:     Whether break_on_reject and break_on_existing
+                       should act on each input URL as opposed to for the entire queue
     cookiefile:        File name where cookies should be read from and dumped to
     cookiesfrombrowser: A tuple containing the name of the browser and the profile
                        name/path from where cookies are loaded.
@@ -2968,9 +2970,13 @@ def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
                 res = func(*args, **kwargs)
             except UnavailableVideoError as e:
                 self.report_error(e)
-            except DownloadCancelled as e:
+            except MaxDownloadsReached as e:
                 self.to_screen(f'[info] {e}')
                 raise
+            except DownloadCancelled as e:
+                self.to_screen(f'[info] {e}')
+                if not self.params.get('break_per_url'):
+                    raise
             else:
                 if self.params.get('dump_single_json', False):
                     self.post_extract(res)
diff --git a/yt_dlp/__init__.py b/yt_dlp/__init__.py
index 38959d930..d56c55b56 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/__init__.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/__init__.py
@@ -701,6 +701,7 @@ def report_args_compat(arg, name):
         'download_archive': download_archive_fn,
         'break_on_existing': opts.break_on_existing,
         'break_on_reject': opts.break_on_reject,
+        'break_per_url': opts.break_per_url,
         'skip_playlist_after_errors': opts.skip_playlist_after_errors,
         'cookiefile': opts.cookiefile,
         'cookiesfrombrowser': opts.cookiesfrombrowser,
diff --git a/yt_dlp/options.py b/yt_dlp/options.py
index 0843d5ff7..4c1920404 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/options.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/options.py
@@ -449,6 +449,14 @@ def _dict_from_options_callback(
         '--break-on-reject',
         action='store_true', dest='break_on_reject', default=False,
         help='Stop the download process when encountering a file that has been filtered out')
+    selection.add_option(
+        '--break-per-input',
+        action='store_true', dest='break_per_url', default=False,
+        help='Make --break-on-existing and --break-on-reject act only on the current input URL')
+    selection.add_option(
+        '--no-break-per-input',
+        action='store_false', dest='break_per_url',
+        help='--break-on-existing and --break-on-reject terminates the entire download queue')
     selection.add_option(
         '--skip-playlist-after-errors', metavar='N',
         dest='skip_playlist_after_errors', default=None, type=int,