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title: "Hard budget limits now available for GitHub Advanced Security"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/hard-budget-limits-now-available-for-github-advanced-security-tqkwa76da
source_url: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-28-hard-budget-limits-now-available-for-github-advanced-security
type: article
source: "GitHub Changelog"
published: 2026-05-28T22:36:16.046Z
updated: 2026-05-29T00:40:47.426Z
tags: ["security", "github"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Hard budget limits now available for GitHub Advanced Security

**[GitHub Changelog](https://daily.dev/sources/github_updates)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

GitHub has introduced hard budget limits for GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), allowing enterprise administrators and billing managers to enforce strict license caps. Previously, only soft budgets existed — admins received email alerts at 75%, 90%, and 100% thresholds but couldn't block overspending. With hard limits, once the budget is reached, new license assignments are blocked and GHAS won't activate on new repositories until the budget is raised or licenses freed. New features include real-time license-to-cost estimates, smart defaults that protect existing active licenses, continued threshold alerting, and organization-level cost center controls. Configuration is available in enterprise billing settings under Budgets & alerts.

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