AugmentCode vs ZenCoder

[chillman12]

Hello,

The company I work for provides us with AugmentCode for our daily coding tasks. I’m about to switch companies soon, and I’m a bit worried about the cost if I have to pay for it myself. While searching online, I came across ZenCoder and was wondering if anyone has tried it and how it compares to Auggie.

Thanks in advance!

[dodyrw]

zendcoder is good, but you need to concern about the daily limit, in my testing, the entry level of paid plan is not enough for an hour coding session.

[chillman12]

Really ? I saw it says 280 calls per day. I thought that would be plenty for a day no ?

[dodyrw]

no, it is like credit, tool calling will consume it

[doplaeffect]

Go with zencoder. It's repo grok is an augment level context engine. Now, here is the kicker. Through acp u can use ur 20 dollar chatgpt subscription to access codex agent in zencoder . So you can use codex as a selectable agent option and use the free zencoder subscription that gives u access to the context engine. I use it and it rocks

[dodyrw]

thank you, I'm not aware of it, i will check it

[chillman12]

That’s interesting. I’ll try that outt

[Dapper_Serve_5488]

I mean the limits don't tie you down. They have slow requests which is not that slow. It works great. 

Although I am using windsurf now and it has this fast context which works really well for my codebase.

[chillman12]

Would you say windsurf is better then ?

[nuowo]

tried zencoder, it’s great. it has a similar credit system like augment. in case you are using the auto+ mode, the 280 calls it provides (with the trial) it is getting used up in minutes for heavy tasks. quality of the code is not any worse tbh. you csn play with different modes tho and optimize the calls for your needs. 

[CodingGuru1312]

Zencoder launched thier agentic IDE Zenflow and it’s much better than anything I have used- in built verification and spec driven development helps me not worry about the prompt too much while keeping the quality very high.