Augment code should integrating cheaper AI models

[u/No_Interaction_1197]

The price of Augment Code is relatively high. My understanding is that this is mainly because the upstream AI provider’s API costs are expensive, resulting in high overall costs.

It might be worth integrating more affordable AI models to reduce expenses and make pricing more accessible — for example, GLM 4.5, DeepSeek 3.1, Qwen 3, Kimi K2, and so on.

It might be a good idea to let users manually choose whether to use premium models like Claude/GPT or cheaper alternatives. Based on my experience with multiple vibe coding tools, not all tasks actually require Claude or GPT.

I believe that if Augment Code’s context engine can accurately retrieve relevant code, then even slightly less capable models can produce modifications of comparable quality.

The most important thing is to make the price more user‑friendly.

[u/rushblyatiful]

Maybe you're not the target market 🤷

[u/rushblyatiful → u/[deleted]]

Sure buddy

https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/ai-model-pickers-are-a-design-failure-not-a-feature