diff --git a/connectors/src/connectors/github/lib/github_api.ts b/connectors/src/connectors/github/lib/github_api.ts
index 1d572177047f..c9bff8346e46 100644
--- a/connectors/src/connectors/github/lib/github_api.ts
+++ b/connectors/src/connectors/github/lib/github_api.ts
@@ -641,14 +641,14 @@ export async function processRepository({
     "Retrieved repository info"
   );
 
-  // `data.size` is the whole repo size in KB, we use it to filter repos > 2GB download size. There
+  // `data.size` is the whole repo size in KB, we use it to filter repos > 10GB download size. There
   // is further filtering by file type + for "extracted size" per file to 1MB.
-  if (data.size > 2 * 1024 * 1024) {
+  if (data.size > 10 * 1024 * 1024) {
     // For now we throw an error, we'll figure out as we go how we want to handle (likely a typed
     // error to return a syncFailed to the user, or increase this limit if we want some largers
     // repositories).
     throw new Error(
-      `Repository is too large to sync (size: ${data.size}KB, max: 2GB)`
+      `Repository is too large to sync (size: ${data.size}KB, max: 10GB)`
     );
   }