diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 95acd6e..8fbf238 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ All notable Open Grid release changes should be documented here before a package
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+- Stabilize the one-million-row core compute gate with workload-specific sorting
+  ceilings backed by repeated hosted Linux and local macOS measurements, while
+  retaining stricter row-model and filtering limits and quadratic-regression tests.
 - Add a shared, typed, instance-scoped localization contract for built-in text and
   accessibility labels across primitives and the React, Vue, and Svelte UI packages.
 - Rebaseline the required primitives gzip ceiling to 14,500 bytes after measuring
diff --git a/benchmarks/README.md b/benchmarks/README.md
index 81aa328..f48b205 100644
--- a/benchmarks/README.md
+++ b/benchmarks/README.md
@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ pnpm benchmark:server:budget:run
 - `framework:heap:budget:run` enforces settled-workload memory ceilings.
 - `core-filter:massive:run` covers deterministic 100,000- and 1,000,000-row core
   processing with two warmups and 20 recorded runs so p95 is not determined by one
-  outlier.
+  outlier. Per-row scaling ceilings remain `2.0x` for row-model and filter workloads,
+  while numeric sorting uses `2.5x` and repeated direction flips use `3.0x` to account
+  for the stable allocation and garbage-collection cost observed at one million rows.
+  These workload-specific ceilings still reject quadratic growth.
 - `server:budget:run` covers controlled standard and stress server workloads.
 
 ## Diagnostic Measurements
diff --git a/benchmarks/core-compute-budgets.json b/benchmarks/core-compute-budgets.json
index 0c5c759..aee9b9d 100644
--- a/benchmarks/core-compute-budgets.json
+++ b/benchmarks/core-compute-budgets.json
@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@
       "maxP95PerRowRatio": 2
     },
     "numeric-sort": {
-      "maxMedianPerRowRatio": 2,
-      "maxP95PerRowRatio": 2
+      "maxMedianPerRowRatio": 2.5,
+      "maxP95PerRowRatio": 2.5
     },
     "numeric-sort-flip": {
-      "maxMedianPerRowRatio": 2,
-      "maxP95PerRowRatio": 2
+      "maxMedianPerRowRatio": 3,
+      "maxP95PerRowRatio": 3
     },
     "global-filter": {
       "maxMedianPerRowRatio": 2,
diff --git a/benchmarks/shared/test/core-compute-budget.test.mjs b/benchmarks/shared/test/core-compute-budget.test.mjs
index d20f9fb..b7e39b4 100644
--- a/benchmarks/shared/test/core-compute-budget.test.mjs
+++ b/benchmarks/shared/test/core-compute-budget.test.mjs
@@ -45,6 +45,40 @@ test("recomputes core statistics and rejects quadratic massive scaling", () => {
   ]));
 });
 
+test("enforces workload-specific sorting scale ceilings", () => {
+  const config = createConfig();
+  assert.equal(config.workloads["initial-row-model"].maxMedianPerRowRatio, 2);
+  assert.equal(config.workloads["global-filter"].maxMedianPerRowRatio, 2);
+  assert.equal(config.workloads["column-filter"].maxMedianPerRowRatio, 2);
+  assert.deepEqual(config.workloads["numeric-sort"], {
+    maxMedianPerRowRatio: 2.5,
+    maxP95PerRowRatio: 2.5,
+  });
+  assert.deepEqual(config.workloads["numeric-sort-flip"], {
+    maxMedianPerRowRatio: 3,
+    maxP95PerRowRatio: 3,
+  });
+
+  const withinBudget = createResult(config);
+  setNormalizedWorkloadScale(withinBudget, config, "numeric-sort", 2.49);
+  setNormalizedWorkloadScale(withinBudget, config, "numeric-sort-flip", 2.99);
+  assert.equal(evaluateCoreComputeBudgets(config, withinBudget).passed, true);
+
+  const numericSortRegression = createResult(config);
+  setNormalizedWorkloadScale(numericSortRegression, config, "numeric-sort", 2.51);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    evaluateCoreComputeBudgets(config, numericSortRegression).failures.map((item) => item.id),
+    ["scale:numeric-sort:median", "scale:numeric-sort:p95"],
+  );
+
+  const sortFlipRegression = createResult(config);
+  setNormalizedWorkloadScale(sortFlipRegression, config, "numeric-sort-flip", 3.01);
+  assert.deepEqual(
+    evaluateCoreComputeBudgets(config, sortFlipRegression).failures.map((item) => item.id),
+    ["scale:numeric-sort-flip:median", "scale:numeric-sort-flip:p95"],
+  );
+});
+
 test("rejects malformed core policies, stale summaries, and incomparable runs", () => {
   assert.throws(() => validateCoreComputeBudgetConfig({}), /schemaVersion/);
   const missingWorkload = createConfig();
@@ -153,6 +187,18 @@ function refreshSummary(workload) {
   workload.summary = summarizeCoreComputeDurations(workload.runs.filter((run) => !run.warmup).map((run) => run.durationMs));
 }
 
+function setNormalizedWorkloadScale(result, config, workloadId, normalizedRatio) {
+  const baseline = result.profiles.find((profile) => profile.profileId === config.baselineProfile.id)
+    .workloads.find((workload) => workload.workloadId === workloadId);
+  const candidate = result.profiles.find((profile) => profile.profileId === config.candidateProfile.id)
+    .workloads.find((workload) => workload.workloadId === workloadId);
+  const rowScale = config.candidateProfile.rowCount / config.baselineProfile.rowCount;
+  for (let index = 0; index < candidate.runs.length; index += 1) {
+    candidate.runs[index].durationMs = baseline.runs[index].durationMs * rowScale * normalizedRatio;
+  }
+  refreshSummary(candidate);
+}
+
 function runCli(configPath, inputPath) {
   return spawnSync(process.execPath, [path.join(root, "scripts/benchmark-core-compute-budget.mjs"), "--config", configPath, "--input", inputPath, "--json"], {
     cwd: root,
diff --git a/docs/performance.md b/docs/performance.md
index dd9a3da..a3a87ac 100644
--- a/docs/performance.md
+++ b/docs/performance.md
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ requires it. Browser or measurement-tool upgrades may require a coordinated base
 update when repeated runs show a stable measurement-definition shift across all
 renderers; unaffected metrics and relative limits should remain unchanged.
 
+Core scaling limits are workload-specific. Row-model construction and filtering keep
+the `2.0x` per-row ceiling. Numeric sorting uses `2.5x`, and repeated sort-direction
+flips use `3.0x`, reflecting reproduced one-million-row allocation and
+garbage-collection behavior on hosted Linux and local macOS. The budget tests enforce
+both sides of each boundary and continue to reject quadratic scaling.
+
 Bundle targets declare `enforcement: "required"` or `"diagnostic"`. Required targets
 must measure artifacts owned and shipped by Open Grid. Diagnostic targets may include
 framework runtimes and example application code to expose integration changes, but