diff --git a/.changeset/olive-islands-sneeze.md b/.changeset/olive-islands-sneeze.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b44f071acc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/olive-islands-sneeze.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend-module-github': patch
+'@backstage/cli': patch
+---
+
+Request slightly smaller pages of data from GitHub
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/commands/onboard/discovery/providers/github/GithubDiscoveryProvider.ts b/packages/cli/src/commands/onboard/discovery/providers/github/GithubDiscoveryProvider.ts
index d5a3dc4a77..a24756edd7 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/commands/onboard/discovery/providers/github/GithubDiscoveryProvider.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/commands/onboard/discovery/providers/github/GithubDiscoveryProvider.ts
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export class GithubDiscoveryProvider implements Provider {
     const query = `query repositories($org: String!, $cursor: String) {
       repositoryOwner(login: $org) {
         login
-        repositories(first: 100, after: $cursor) {
+        repositories(first: 50, after: $cursor) {
           nodes {
             name
             url
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-github/src/lib/github.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-github/src/lib/github.ts
index 073e6c1587..cf6b400443 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend-module-github/src/lib/github.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend-module-github/src/lib/github.ts
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ export async function getOrganizationRepositories(
     query repositories($org: String!, $catalogPathRef: String!, $cursor: String) {
       repositoryOwner(login: $org) {
         login
-        repositories(first: 100, after: $cursor) {
+        repositories(first: 50, after: $cursor) {
           nodes {
             name
             catalogInfoFile: object(expression: $catalogPathRef) {