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Abstract We extend a result by Huneke and Watanabe bounding the multiplicity of F-pure local rings of prime characteristic in terms of their dimension and embedding dimensions to the case of F-injective, generalized Cohen–Macaulay rings. We then produce an upper bound for the multiplicity of any local Cohen–Macaulay ring of prime characteristic in terms of their dimensions, embedding dimensions and HSL numbers. Finally, we extend the upper bounds for the multiplicity of generalized Cohen–Macaulay rings in characteristic zero which have dense F-injective type.