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Azure Subscription Disabled: Spending Limit Reached

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Workaround available Azure portal, Azure CLI, PowerShell Updated November 14, 2026Based on 2 user reportsHow we research

Quick answer

Free Trial and credit-based subscriptions are disabled when usage hits the credit amount. Remove the spending limit or upgrade to pay-as-you-go to re-enable it.

Most likely fix: Remove the spending limit (credit subscriptions such as Visual Studio)

How to fix it

Try these in order — the most common fix is first.

  1. 1. Remove the spending limit (credit subscriptions such as Visual Studio)

    1. Sign in to the Azure portal as the Account Administrator
    2. Search for Cost Management + Billing and select your subscription
    3. Select the remove spending limit banner in the Subscription overview
    4. Choose indefinitely or for the current billing period only
    5. Select a payment method and select Finish
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  2. 2. Upgrade a Free Trial to pay-as-you-go

    1. Open Cost Management + Billing > Subscriptions
    2. Select the free account subscription and choose Upgrade
    3. Add a valid payment method; the subscription is re-enabled automatically
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  3. 3. If the banner is missing

    1. Switch to the correct tenant/directory
    2. Open the RemoveSpendingLimitBlade URL in the portal with your subscription ID
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Symptoms

Azure emails you that the spending limit was reached. VMs are stopped and de-allocated, deployed resources are removed from production and storage becomes read-only until the next billing period or until you act.

Why it happens

  • Free Trial or Visual Studio credit fully used
  • Third-party Marketplace images or Azure DevOps Services exhausting credit almost immediately
  • Spending limit left on by default for credit subscriptions

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