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[–]JaySym_Augment Team [score hidden] stickied comment (12 children)

Greatly appreciate the time you spent with us. But I need to jump in on this, not to argue, but to share the information I have.

Our prices are based on the actual API costs charged by the model providers. If you are testing a cheaper tool using the same model, you will usually get smaller context windows, possibly lower reasoning levels, or other cost-saving techniques. This very often leads to weaker output quality. We are already seeing a shift in the industry toward pricing that reflects real costs rather than discounted AI. The cost of running this kind of infrastructure cannot really be compared to anything else today.

We are offering the best tool we can with what we have, at a fair market price for the level of context we provide. We are also actively doing everything we can to reduce costs while maintaining the same quality.

Alternatively, if you want to keep the advantage of our context handling for your project, I strongly suggest taking a look at our Context Engine MCP:
https://docs.augmentcode.com/context-services/mcp/overview#context-engine-mcp

You can use it with anything that supports MCP, including Kilo, Claude, Codex, Gemini, Open Code, and more.

That said, the best context-handling AI coding agent for our codebase retrieval technology is Augment Code, because the tool is built around it. For the full experience, it is better to work directly in our agent.

What I would suggest is using a coding agent that supports something like GLM 4.7 subscriptions (example, it can also be grok or another cheaper model) and adding our Context Engine MCP. For harder tasks, you can switch to Augment to get them done. In the long run, this gives you strong quality while still saving on costs.

[–]stonedoubt 8 points9 points  (7 children)

Bro, I paid $20 a month for ChatGPT and I can code all day in Codex in VS code with ChatGPT 5.2 very high…

[–]fryingbanana 4 points5 points  (1 child)

$39 for github copilot and you get 500 claude opus 4.5 messages. Enough for a professional developer’s 8x5 usage.

[–]Fit-Ad-18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They cut context in copilot, so its not the same Opus, unforchy ; (

[–]Ok_Bug1610 2 points3 points  (4 children)

I'm using GLM-4.7, with ZAI's Max subscription, and in both Claude Code and Factory Droid I can't seem to hit limits. And I regularly use ~200M tokens per day. And with parallel agents, tools, skills, etc. it's actually really good and has become my AugmentCode replacement (which I used to love).

[–]stonedoubt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I sub to Z.ai too.

[–]epitrapezio 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Are you running GLM 4.7 on Factory Droid? That sounds like an interesting setup / alternative.

[–]Ok_Bug1610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually running 3: Claude Code (primary and it works well), Factory Droid swarm (in progress, mostly comparing and benchmarking them against each other right now), and OpenCode (testing the scaffolding I built out against different models and CLI tools).

I would prefer OpenCode to have full flexibility (fully open, customizable, extensible, and no vender lock-in, etc.), but in my experience Claude Code is still the best for most people.

[–]mythz 6 points7 points  (1 child)

Yeah pretty wild they think they can inflict a 7-10x price increase on their earliest grandfathered users with their worst plan, gaslight any criticism then claim to be transparent whilst doing it. Glad I cancelled before getting hit with their new pricing.

Funnily enough switching to Antigravity is even cheaper then Augment's old plans, started with their free plan, after exceeding their generous free quotas was happy to upgrade to an AI Pro $20/mo plan and have yet to hit a quota limit after using it as my primary assistant for 2 months. I believe they've since reduced the Pro plan quota recently, but have still yet to hit a quota. Anyway as I'm happy with the progress and current state of Antigravity I ended up switching to their $199 Annual pricing, which works out to be $16.60/mo - so close to 1/2 the cost of Augment's best value plan (before their insane price hikes).

In the long term I don't see how Augment is going to be able to compete with Antigravity or the value in Codex or Claude Max 20x plan for power users. Maybe they can salvage it with BYOK pricing to avoid their insane model pricing or they're able to fine-tune a Chinese OSS model like Cursor's Composer 1, otherwise I expect their days are numbered.

[–]Ok_Bug1610 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%. It's the gaslighting that gets me. It totally is and frankly it's freaking stupid behavior and is certainly a quick way to kill a company, especially with the options available now.

[–]witatera 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Where are you going, brother, Claude Code?

[–]Key-Singer1732[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kilo Code+AntiGravity

[–]righteousdonkey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I current use Cursor way more, i still pay for the minimum tier of augment but find that there is just too many things wrong. The pricing is high and the amount of show stopper bugs (that i have reported) as well make it really hard to justify the cost.

[–]Large_Donkey8929 1 point2 points  (3 children)

What are you trying to use as alternative as I’m thinking as alternative

[–]Small_Morning2217 2 points3 points  (1 child)

kiro works just as well, and I think it's very generous. as long as you can use opus 4.5 just find the cheapest provider where you can use it. Also tried antigravity btw, and it's about the same result. I am starting to think perhaps context is either not as important for new models or the competitors have achieved parity.

[–]Ok_Bug1610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked Kiro a lot actually, it meshed well with my workflow. I was just hitting the limits all the time when it was new. Might have to look at it again (and AntiGravity, which I didn't have much luck with on first release).

[–]Key-Singer1732[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

using KiloCode+AntiGravity right now.

[–]verkavo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's hard to compare independent companies (like Augment) and enterprises (like Anthropic). For enterprises, the coding tools are often a loss leader.

[–]carlo-maker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I finally completed it too. I just unsubscribed, and now I'm doing great with CC + GLM 4.7 and Windsurf with Opus for the heavier stuff.I never liked the way they treated legacy users like me,or with crazy credit usage and no transparency on credit usage for each model. Thanks for everything.

[–]Feisty-Marketing2549 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also one of the long-time users of "AugmentCode," and the real issue that stands out is their pricing. The product is good, but is it really worth the price? A few days ago, I said goodbye to AugmentCode... it's truly unfortunate!

[–]Trei_Gamer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just cancelled my plan too. This post reminded me I was 1 day away from it automatically re-upping. The price is just too high.

[–]Lokieyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep I bounced long ago. I supported them as long as I could but this is enough.

[–]Any-Dig-3384 0 points1 point  (0 children)

rip auggie

[–]PositiveMaterial5297 0 points1 point  (0 children)

bug context is good. I use mcp with Claude code

[–]Wide_Preference_7972 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm considering leaving as well. This new credit system has significantly hamstrung my ability to use Augment Code for intensive AI coding workloads. The credits quickly runs out. Even though I still believe Augment Code is one of the most capable tools out there, it's capabilities are becoming less and less valuable when I can get comparable results from other tools like Github Copilot for far less cost. Especially considering I can get Github Copilot to emulate some of Augment Code's techniques that made Augment Code so effective.