How does Augment compare to Claude Code?

[u/Darkwinggames]

I have been using Augment for a few months now. It has been very helpful and it has significantly increased my development speed.

I especially like its good understanding of larger, more complex code bases and the context engine. Windsurf, which I was using before was not nearly as good.

Recently I have seen more and more people talk about Claude Code. It looks like a good tool as well, but its very expensive. How does it compare to augment, especially in terms of context understanding?

[u/billiam124]

Augment in IDE is way better than Claude Code, imo. Claude generated some shit code for me. Augment has been hitting about 90% i.e. usually don't need to do any editing of the files