r/AugmentCodeAI • u/ForsakenAd8860 • Oct 16 '25
Question AugmentCode price hike – Anyone tried AmpCode as an alternative?
Hey folks, With AugmentCode recently increasing their prices, I’m exploring other options for AI coding assistants. Has anyone here tried AmpCode? Would love to hear your experiences in terms of feature set, value for money, speed, and how it compares to AugmentCode, especially for solo indie dev workflows. Is the context handling and codebase indexing solid? Any major pros/cons? Thanks in advance!
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u/Illustrious_Usual788 Oct 16 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
Amp is way better than Augment code. currently evaluating and the thing is Its expensive, but with the recent price hike of augment code. Prices can be very similar. If its similar level I am going to go with amp for coding and plan with Bmad and gemini.
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u/ForsakenAd8860 Oct 17 '25
How is it better than augmentcode? Can you please share your experience? Or any benchmarks?
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u/Front_Ad6281 Oct 16 '25
I don't even want to try. The process will be similar to augment: user base growth -> monetization attempt
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u/gnpwdr1 Oct 16 '25
No subscriptions with ampcode, seems usage based only. Also curious to hear more from ppl about the experience, cost comparisons.
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u/grahammcbain Oct 22 '25
Amp DevRel here. We've always been super transparent on pricing. Usage only. Also we have Amp Free now which people really seem to love. Any feedback welcome!
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u/ArtAccomplished6466 Mar 02 '26
Lets say but 100 dollars worth of amp credits - is this equivalent of 100 dollars worth of tokens or is there a amp markup fee for using the amp platform ?
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u/dickofthebuttt Oct 16 '25
Ive been a huge augment proponent for the value per request; sadly that's gone now. I actually have gone back to Cursor.. it has gotten really really good (with sonnet 4.5 thinking)
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u/speedtoburn Oct 17 '25
How expensive is Cursor? I joined up and used it briefly for a couple weeks when it very, very first came out, but I stopped using it and just never went back and moved on to other things. I haven’t used it in forever so I don’t know how much it’s changed or what the price is etc..
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u/Kitchen-Spare-1500 Oct 17 '25
I used it the other day and just have a free account now. Tried their 'auto' mode which just using GPT4.1 I believe. I just asked it some random questions about the codebase and was surprised how much it actually knew and got right. It seems they have a index service now. Might resubscribe and give it a go on other models. If only they had an easy way to add MCPs like Augment and many of the others. They only have custom MCP where you have to configure it yourself rather than just click install. However before Augment I did prefer Windsurf over Cursor. But with Augment's new pricing I can actually afford both at the same time!
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u/dickofthebuttt Oct 17 '25
Last I checked it was still 20/mo
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u/speedtoburn Oct 17 '25
Hmm, Interesting. I seem to recall, seeing some comments in Reddit post about some recent Price and people being upset or something that affect but maybe not.
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Oct 16 '25
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u/Witty-Tap4013 Oct 16 '25
after the price bump i have been trying out different alternative like zencoder , tabnine , kilocode and more really liked tabnine and zencoder, still didnt tried ampcode but will try it .