Uber Caps Employee AI Token Spending at $1,500 Per Month After Budget Exhaustion
The cap reveals that even a company deeply integrating AI into daily operations must impose hard limits once the costs outpace the budget, suggesting the productivity gains have not yet made unlimited spending sustainable.
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Uber Technologies has set a $1,500 monthly cap per employee on AI coding tool token spending after the company exhausted its annual AI budget early in 2026. The cap applies per tool, with a dashboard for tracking usage and a process to request overage permission. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi previously said engineers use AI for 90% of their work.
Uber Technologies has imposed a $1,500 monthly cap per employee on token spending for AI coding tools after the company burned through its annual AI budget by early 2026, a spokesperson told Bloomberg. The cap applies independently to each tool, and employees receive a dashboard to monitor usage. A process exists to request permission to exceed the normal limit. The move follows CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's February 2026 revelation that software engineers use AI for about 90% of their work and that about 30% of employees are AI power users. CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga said in April that about 11% of real-time backend system code updates are now created by AI agents built with Claude Code, up from just a few percent three months earlier.
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