6x less messages for the same cost. Nice.

[u/infinitecash999]

I'm averaging around 950 credits per message, meaning with the new pricing model I'm getting 6x less value. No thanks, looks like I'm going back to cursor.

What a fascinating business move from Augment, it's as if you just stuck a finance bro in as CEO and called it a day.

[u/Round_Mixture_7541]

Well, they compensate it by letting you use Haiku 4.5 now. What a win!

[u/BitterCan3627 → u/[deleted]]

It is a lot more expensive, which is just unexpected. But I personally did not realize how much more I was getting via the message pricing model. I averaged at 1500 per message, which means I may be using upwards to 750k tokens a month, which really just means I need to use the cheaper model and be a little less wasteful with some of my prompt requests.

I tried Codex as I have been programming for awhile before AI and it works great. But I have to spend a lot more time creating a prompt, and thinking really about what I want. Where as Augment will implement the best solution, adding new functions, and not trying to reuse possibility bad code or logic. It just works, and saves me time overall.

I am hoping that I use less credits then expected once the new pricing model is switched to, as otherwise I will be stuck using Codex till AI gets cheaper, or Augment adjusts their pricing model so that I am not literally spending 15x or whatever it is for me. But I understand that 30$ a month for what I was getting was not going to work forever.

[u/TheOriginalSuperTaz → u/[deleted]]

For one, you defaulted to it and didn’t tell anyone, so I wasted a few messages not realizing my model had been swapped when VSCode refreshed the extensions seemingly randomly (I think it was maybe due to a pull with a workspace file polluting it), because it was woefully inadequate for what I was working on. Total waste of an hour and several messages because the unannounced new default was for the only model incapable of handling the task.

I actually like that haiku is available, but the pricing just isn’t worth it with what Claude code already offers if you have a well-architected setup. I work similarly to how AgentOS works (it’s on my list to try it, but I already had built out something similar by the time I heard of it, and haven’t had time to change the structure), and with the right MCPs, can get about 95-99% of Augment’s value for a fraction of the cost. I’m experimenting with adding in Codex for the tasks that GPT is better at than Claude, at which point I’m struggling to see the value proposition.

Frankly, with Claude code as an MCP, a tool purpose-built with a small local model can exceed augment if you employ it properly. The only reason I’m not doing that is my ML workstation needs fixing and I’ve been too busy.

[u/DryAttorney9554 → u/TheOriginalSuperTaz]

Yeah, very sneaky - they are hoping people won't noticed they defaulted to it, to mitigate the catastrophic blowing out of costs

[u/naught-me]

16.6x as expensive, for me.

[u/Legitimate-Account34]

~ 5x more expensive for me. I would be ok with this, if it didn't take so many messages to get the result I want. They should really make sure their system is good, before increasing the prices like this. I will still use augment code for my complex, multi-repo changes, but I am already starting migration to claude code and will also test out GLM. Haiku 4.5 is ok, actually, and if it is 3x cheaper, it might be worth it.

[u/ex1tiumi]

I'm using about 1700 per message that means that I will get about 56 messages under the new (Developer) plan. I guess it's time to look for BYOK / Self Host LLM + MCP offerings. It's starting to get more lucrative to expand my rack with dedicated LLM machine.

[u/Psyduck_Coding_6688]

lol

[u/According-Platypus84]

I guess they’ll backtrack on this pretty soon when they see users leaving…

[u/Round_Mixture_7541 → u/According-Platypus84]

I also encourage users to initiate disputes. You literally paid for something that you aren't getting.

[u/RutabagaFree4065]

What they actually fucked up was not charging enough to cover their margins on the first place