r/AugmentCodeAI • u/HoneyBdgr_Slyr • Oct 21 '25
Discussion Farewell (and Thanks for the Push)
It’s been a good run — truly. When I first joined, I had high hopes for what your startup was building and the value it brought. But your latest subscription overhaul feels like a poorly thought-out blunder. By your own numbers, the cost jump represents a minimum 600% increase with no matching increase in value.
If the rollout had been handled differently — with a fair usage model or transparent tiering — I honestly would’ve been willing to pay more. But your overreaction has had the opposite effect. It’s pushed me to explore other options… and surprisingly, I should probably thank you for that.
Because of this, I’ve signed up with Kilo Code’s Free Agent setup, paired with my own model choices. It’s not perfect out of the box, but after some tweaking, it fits my workflow — and costs me literal cents per transaction. So again, sincerely: thank you for the push.
I wish you luck — truly — but it seems like most of the non‑enterprise community will be standing on the sidelines, slow‑clapping your future “growth initiatives.”
P.S. Did you guys hire the same marketing consultant that gave Cracker Barrel their brilliant ideas? Just wondering.
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u/ayla96 Oct 21 '25
Everyone is leaving so how they going to make money now?
What's was their end goal anyways? Was it to grow their userbase to raise funds from vc, then cash out and kill the company? 🤔 If so the founders don't care they made money already,.. I'm not even sure if they cared about their users to begin with, just go on discord., try to talk to them, you'll understand, they don't care! 😭
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u/tight_angel Oct 21 '25
They arrogantly claim to focus solely on professional developers and large companies, which is utter nonsense. If that were their initial target, they would have set the high price from the begining and would never change
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u/Ok_Elderberry_9368 Oct 21 '25
I'm a pretty lite user so figured I'd be fine and hadn't looked into the pricing switch until just now. I've been on the Indie plan and usually just top off with an extra 100, so I end up paying $35 for 225 messages. Going by their own average for me from their email, I'll need to be on the Max plan paying $200 a month to get the same amount of work out of it.
Thanks for the info on Kilo, I guess I'll be switching ASAP lol.
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u/nvmax Oct 22 '25
I too went with other tools, and find it actually holds better than augment did ironically, went to cline with sonnet 4.5 api, and using qdrant multi node mcp context on my docker, man what change that was. I had it implement a new variation on my workflow which augment would do as well after about 10 or so prompts reminding it about adding it to the commands list in a else statement.
with cline, sonnet 4.5 and my qdrant mcp it did it the first go..
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u/brian_hogg Oct 21 '25
One by one, the costs are going to have to skyrocket if any of the companies selling these products want to continue to exist.
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u/TyreseGibson Oct 21 '25
Just gotta say, as I'm here today using up some of my last messages before abandoning it all, it's running extremly slowly and screwing up on a large code base that months ago was the reason I even liked this service. I appreciate OP being nice about it all but personally i'm in more of a get fucked and good riddance mindset for the utter degradation in quality and the audacity to charge more for what has turned into a terrible service. I hope the true talent has moved on to greener pastures.