diff --git a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/source.py b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/source.py
index e84d3b148d32..659714202e3c 100644
--- a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/source.py
+++ b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/source.py
@@ -162,6 +162,15 @@ def get_non_retryable_errors(self) -> dict[str, str | None]:
             "Request had invalid authentication credentials": "Your Google Ads connection could not be authenticated. Please reconnect your Google Ads account.",
         }
 
+    def get_retryable_errors(self) -> set[str]:
+        # A quota/rate-limit RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED ("Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check
+        # quota).") is already ridden out in-process by `_call_with_transient_retry` (see
+        # `_is_transient_grpc_error` in google_ads.py). A search that still fails after that
+        # budget has hit a longer-lived quota window than a few seconds of backoff can clear,
+        # but Temporal's activity retry recovers once it does — self-recovering, not a bug, so
+        # keep it out of error tracking as noise.
+        return {"Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota)"}
+
     # TODO: clean up google ads source to not have two auth config options
     def parse_config(self, job_inputs: dict) -> GoogleAdsSourceConfig | GoogleAdsServiceAccountSourceConfig:
         if "google_ads_integration_id" in job_inputs.keys():
diff --git a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/tests/test_google_ads_source.py b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/tests/test_google_ads_source.py
index 513fd3f732f6..344d6402423b 100644
--- a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/tests/test_google_ads_source.py
+++ b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/sources/google_ads/tests/test_google_ads_source.py
@@ -325,6 +325,33 @@ def test_access_not_configured_has_friendly_message(self):
         assert "admin" in friendly.lower()
 
 
+class TestGoogleAdsRetryableErrors:
+    def setup_method(self):
+        self.source = GoogleAdsSource()
+        self.retryable = self.source.get_retryable_errors()
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(
+        "error_msg",
+        [
+            # str(google.api_core.exceptions.ResourceExhausted) as it propagates once
+            # `_call_with_transient_retry`'s in-process retry budget (see google_ads.py) is
+            # exhausted on a quota/rate-limit RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED.
+            "Resource has been exhausted (e.g. check quota).",
+        ],
+    )
+    def test_quota_exhausted_is_retryable(self, error_msg):
+        # If this pattern drops out of get_retryable_errors(), a quota window that outlasts the
+        # in-process retry budget starts polluting error tracking even though Temporal's activity
+        # retry still recovers once the quota clears.
+        assert any(pattern in error_msg for pattern in self.retryable)
+
+    def test_receive_limit_exhausted_is_not_retryable(self):
+        # The client-side "Received message larger than max" abort is deterministic (see
+        # `_is_transient_grpc_error`) — it must not be swallowed as benign noise here.
+        error_msg = "Received message larger than max (90000000 vs. 67108864)"
+        assert not any(pattern in error_msg for pattern in self.retryable)
+
+
 class TestGoogleAdsLookbackDefault:
     _SCHEMAS_PATH = "products.warehouse_sources.backend.temporal.data_imports.sources.google_ads.google_ads.get_schemas"