unless they changed something in the like 2 months (edit: besides implementing a cap for claude code specifically, since other tools already had caps) since ive left my job there im pretty sure 1500$ is the very max you can use after maxing out free calls, initial budget, then 2 extensions individually reviewed by your manager

higher ups pushed for these last 2 years to be AI focused so I don't think this restriction is a measure of "don't use too much AI" as much as it is a measure of "don't use only 'manual' AI tooling" since we had a dozen more specialized tools in-house running locally or otherwise that didn't count towards the budget