The Prometheus List
Intelligence is the new fire. Work at companies with unlimited or very high AI usage budgets, verified from public sources.
Last updated Mar 20, 2026
“For any worker who is able to wield AI agents effectively in an organization, their compute budgets are just going to monotonically go up over time.”— Aaron Levie, CEO of Box
| Company | Location | Stage | Policy | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | Santa Clara 🇺🇸 | Big Tech | Very High | CEO Jensen Huang: "If our $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed." Business Insider(opens in new tab) |
| Resend | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "Every employee at Resend gets access to multiple AI tools. No credit caps, no approval process. Use as much as you want." X @resend(opens in new tab) |
| Notion | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | CEO Ivan Zhao: "We encourage our engineers to burn as many tokens as possible." LinkedIn (via Reid Hoffman)(opens in new tab) |
| Ramp | New York 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "Unlimited AI token usage" Ramp Careers(opens in new tab) |
| Browserbase | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "Every engineer gets any API key they want with no limits." X @pk_iv(opens in new tab) |
| Vercel | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | Rauch, the Vercel CEO, says that so far his highest token spenders are also his top performers. He estimates that $10,000 spend for a day's work probably saved him millions. WSJ(opens in new tab) |
| Valon | New York 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "Valon gives our team unlimited token budget. Tinkering and experimenting are encouraged." LinkedIn (via CoS Ariel Brito)(opens in new tab) |
| Eigen Labs | Seattle 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "Everyone at EIGEN has unlimited Claude Code access." X @0xkydo(opens in new tab) |
| Polygon | Dubai 🇦🇪 | Big Tech | Very High | "Every employee will get $200 a year to spend on any AI tools they want." X @sandeepnailwal(opens in new tab) |
| LazyCat | Beijing 🇨🇳 | Startup | Unlimited | "没有限额，无限Tokens，让你用到爽。" X @manateelazycat(opens in new tab) |
| primitive | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "You should have at least 2 agents running right now. We have an unlimited AI budget for all team members" YC Jobs(opens in new tab) |
| AirOps | Miami 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "No counting tokens, no rationing, and definitely no asking for permission." LinkedIn Matt Hammel(opens in new tab) |
| Webflow | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "At @webflow everyone gets unlimited tokens." X @leinwand(opens in new tab) |
| Shopify | Ottawa 🇨🇦 | Big Tech | Very High | "Reflexive AI usage is a baseline expectation at Shopify." First Round Review(opens in new tab) |
| n8n | Berlin 🇩🇪 | Startup | Unlimited | "Everyone gets an unlimited AI budget." n8n Careers(opens in new tab) |
| Zip | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "Unlimited AI token usage" Zip Careers(opens in new tab) |
| Basis AI | New York 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | "We give every engineer an unlimited token budget" Basis AI Careers(opens in new tab) |
| Anthropic | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | Head of Claude Code Boris Cherny: "Give engineers unlimited tokens... Some engineers at Anthropic spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on tokens." Lenny's Podcast(opens in new tab) |
| OpenAI | San Francisco 🇺🇸 | Startup | Unlimited | Employees compete on internal leaderboards for max token use NYT(opens in new tab) |
| Meta | Menlo Park 🇺🇸 | Big Tech | Very High | Unlimited Claude Code access; "We literally have a leaderboard of who has cost the most in compute… there are folks north of $80k in spend." Reddit(opens in new tab) |
CEO Jensen Huang: "If our $500,000 engineer did not consume at least $250,000 worth of tokens, I am going to be deeply alarmed." Business Insider(opens in new tab)
"Every employee at Resend gets access to multiple AI tools. No credit caps, no approval process. Use as much as you want." X @resend(opens in new tab)
CEO Ivan Zhao: "We encourage our engineers to burn as many tokens as possible." LinkedIn (via Reid Hoffman)(opens in new tab)
"Every engineer gets any API key they want with no limits." X @pk_iv(opens in new tab)
Rauch, the Vercel CEO, says that so far his highest token spenders are also his top performers. He estimates that $10,000 spend for a day's work probably saved him millions. WSJ(opens in new tab)
"Valon gives our team unlimited token budget. Tinkering and experimenting are encouraged." LinkedIn (via CoS Ariel Brito)(opens in new tab)
"Everyone at EIGEN has unlimited Claude Code access." X @0xkydo(opens in new tab)
"Every employee will get $200 a year to spend on any AI tools they want." X @sandeepnailwal(opens in new tab)
"You should have at least 2 agents running right now. We have an unlimited AI budget for all team members" YC Jobs(opens in new tab)
"No counting tokens, no rationing, and definitely no asking for permission." LinkedIn Matt Hammel(opens in new tab)
"At @webflow everyone gets unlimited tokens." X @leinwand(opens in new tab)
"Reflexive AI usage is a baseline expectation at Shopify." First Round Review(opens in new tab)
"We give every engineer an unlimited token budget" Basis AI Careers(opens in new tab)
Head of Claude Code Boris Cherny: "Give engineers unlimited tokens... Some engineers at Anthropic spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a month on tokens." Lenny's Podcast(opens in new tab)
Employees compete on internal leaderboards for max token use NYT(opens in new tab)
Unlimited Claude Code access; "We literally have a leaderboard of who has cost the most in compute… there are folks north of $80k in spend." Reddit(opens in new tab)
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