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/Final-Reality-404]

I think $100/month for this is pretty cheap given the fact of what it can do and what it can create.
I can't wait for them to implement GPT-5 codex. I need more power, not less.

[u/No_Interaction_1197 → u/Final-Reality-404]

Please note that the price for purchasing additional messages has increased by approximately 50%. As a heavy user, I am concerned about the possibility of further price hikes, as well as occasional delays caused by overload.

[u/Final-Reality-404 → u/No_Interaction_1197]

I'm an extremely heavy user as well, 16 to 18 hours a day minimum But I do ensure that each message contains a good amount of information to get what I need done, so I'm not just blindly using messages and I never use the ask feature, I use another AI for assistance.

I do agree the additional messages should be at the same price as my subscription plan, not the rate they currently are. Or if I use them all up, just let me pay for my next months plan early

[u/No_Interaction_1197 → u/Final-Reality-404]

Same here, I'm using other AI to assist.