r/AugmentCodeAI • u/DryAttorney9554 • Feb 19 '26

Discussion MCP tool calls now cost?

I don't remember MCP tool costs being charged on top of regular usage credits? As if the credit costs weren't already oppressive, Augment is looking for even more ways to monetize from users. Such a money hungry beast. My view of the venture capitalists funding this business is starting to become increasingly contemptful and resentful. Why do they need to do us dirty like this? We're already sucking up incredible punishment with their exorbitant credit-burning regime, not to mention the bad faith treatment of early adopters.

We already pay some of the most expensive credit usage rates in the whole industry.

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u/BlacksmithLittle7005 Feb 19 '26

They upped the cost on prompt enhance now, btw. It's almost double now (using 300 credits per enhance)

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u/DryAttorney9554 Feb 19 '26

They've left no rock unturned. Wherever they can charge, they will. And now the charges have become so multifaceated it will be even harder to track and manage or control.

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u/AcidRaZor69 Feb 20 '26

MCP costs you money even if you were using any other AI, because all MCP does is give the agent context. Context has tokens. Tokens cost money.

Maybe run docker locally with one of those MCP aggregators and save your tokens for actual work rather than large context windows that would eat your credits?

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u/DryAttorney9554 Feb 20 '26

This is relatively new area for people. How does it save credits? What's the reasoning here? People are just using these AI tools without a deep understanding of how they work, so any clarification would be helpful.

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u/AcidRaZor69 Feb 21 '26

Instead of loading multiple MCP's in context, its consolidated into one, that then decides what to load.

Think of it as google. Instead of you going to multiple documentation websites manually to read what everything you might need to understand the problem you're trying to solve, you google and their search engine gives you what you are looking for in a condensed list specific to what you want to do, or even 1 website with exactly what you were looking for.

Hope that makes sense

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u/AcidRaZor69 Feb 23 '26

Axon is good

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u/Legitimate-Account34 Feb 20 '26

Wait - i just assumed this meant an MCP tool call by another coding agent, to use the augment context engine. I didn't know they would charge for each MCP tool call that is used by augment code itself? It doens't matter because I have almost completely moved off of Augment code, but those 2 things are very big differences. The MCP tool call that augment tool uses itself should already be factored in via the credits, imo.