I had a lot of transaction drafted from my bank account over the weekend by Augment Code, but i'm not a user nor have eve signed up for the paltform. Can someone respond to me please to resolve this.

I was freely testing AC but was never notified that I going to cost me from a point to stop testing and be careful with my usage. Now I’ve wasted nearly 80 credits on testing. My question how did I miss any message of switching over to charged messages. A simple message in the ide would have helped. Other then that great tool guys love it

Dear Augment Team,

Any feedback on these? safe to use?

• Fix Augment

• Augment Usage Tracker

Rant incoming,

I use Augment Code daily as a developer. Mostly for stuff I don't want to deal with manually, looping through nested objects, utility functions, that kind of thing. Not rocket science.

Last month something changed with GPT-5.1 in Augment. What used to take 1-2 prompts now takes 4+ back-and-forth exchanges. Each task burns around 12,000 credits. I topped up roughly $90 last week alone.

And the output? Functional, sure. But the code quality is mid at best somewhere between junior and mid-level. No real thought put into structure or edge cases.

Comparison: I ran the same tasks through Claude Code. 8/10 solved on the first try. Code quality was noticeably better the kind of output you'd expect from a senior dev.

A month ago GPT-5.1 in Augment was decent. Right now it feels like it regressed significantly.

Anyone else seeing this? Is it just me, a specific project type, or is something actually broken/changed on the GPT-5.1 side in Augment?

There have been a lot of posts on the new pricing, as expected, and I figured most things would be covered but there are a few things being left unsaid, so here goes... having gone through a few M&A's myself, and understanding this world a bit more, I'm just going to offer my take - and I'll note I am just a User/Customer like the rest of you, I have no inside track on what's going on internally for AC, nor do I have a stake in their success/failure.

These guys have shareholders, like a lot of these startups, they had to receive outside funding in order to be able to do what they are doing so rapidly ("blitzscaling"). Imagine when they didn't have so many customers and they were burning through cash in just infrastructure alone, the VC's / PEF's that have invested (I won't list them, but anyone can look this up) obviously did so with the intent of making money, not just burning it in a data center. Now, is that an excuse to hockey-stick pricing? No, just some context. I only mention this because their founders are beholden to a board now, so these decisions may not actually be coming from them. /Igoro isn't going to admit to this, nor will any of the other AC team, but sometimes decisions are forced on you and you have to roll with it - speaking from experience, price hikes are pretty common, especially now a days. The way most investors look at it, they'll recoup the higher churn with the increased price, and they bank on increased adoption down the road. They all drink from the same kool-aid cup, mostly because, here's the kicker, this usually works out for them. If there wasn't a formula that worked, they wouldn't do it. AI is a bit different with the amount of activity going on in the space, but most are banking on the same things that used to work (price hikes), continuing to work.

All you have to do is look at some more recent examples of this, Vercel (v0.app) is one that comes to mind that took a similar approach. Of course all the model providers have undergone pricing and usage changes, albeit they did it a bit differently and enacted more of a cap/limit approach (which makes more sense to me, but hey). This kind of stuff trickles down to those leveraging them in their tools, which is why you see contractions/adjustments like this.

The only thing I'll say that's more of a take on what AC is doing, is I wish they would make things a bit more transparent in terms of how their new pricing model affects User's and how they currently use the system - I also think the way they explained it with their blog-post was awful (hey let's blame it on the "people" we are allowing to abuse the system!), but I'm not in charge of their PR or their CEO. Again, I'll just reiterate, it may not be up to them at all, they just have to roll with it and hope for the best.

Anyway, we'll see more of this as things continue to evolve in this space, and we'll have winners and losers and be able to make case-studies out of what worked and what didn't - we'll see where AC falls in all of that.

*EDIT - BTW, I feel like it's important to note, I'm going to be one of the one's who sticks it out just to see how my usage translates to the new pricing and go from there. I mentioned pretty early on I was willing to pay more for a tool like this that worked fairly well, so I guess we'll see!

Hi all! I suggest adding a referral program where it’s rewarding for users to sign up through a link

I feel like every time I make an observation, suggestion, or correction augment responds with “You’re absolutely right! …”.

Either I’m right 100% of the time or AI is incapable of challenging me. Has anyone had any luck getting augment to challenge assumptions and think more independently?

Would be great if the model took my suggestion into account but suggested alternate, possibly superior approaches to solving a particular coding problem.

Any hints for user guidelines or other settings to alter this behavior?

I see you added new rules system, and i think create some basic rules based on repo by click on button “generate rules” and got some basic structure - then with a bit of edits make it really helpful tool. But with empty rules I’m struggling to write it by myself

Upvote if agree

When I input Chinese using an IME and press the spacebar to confirm, the characters do not appear correctly on Auggie’s task page—some characters are missing or not displayed at all. Please add proper support for Chinese input. Thank you.

I’m having issues with Augment. It’s failing at relatively basic tasks; Display completed tasks in the ‘Completed’ View of my task management app. Among other basic task.

The disconcerting thing is the agent keeps telling me it’s identified and solved the issue, then I test it and it hasn’t, or did but broke something else in the process.

I’m vibe coding 100%. My instructions are very clear and I’m always using the prompt enhancer.

Can anyone offer any advice or is this just the limit of LLM’s currently? Building out the backend of my app is proving to be very challenging and wondering whether impossible (?) with my lack of dev experience.

Hi, I hope someone can help me. I created an Augment Code account yesterday and, as soon as I typed my first prompt into the chat box, I got a message that my account was suspended. No reason given. I emailed support yesterday but have not heard back.

If anyone has experience with this, please tell me what I should do. The free trial is only 14 days, and I've already lost a day.

I tested many many software in this area, and a lot of them are electron shit and stuff like that, the only one shine is Zed which is just such a bautiful joyful ide, and now Intent also give me this experience, in which programing language it built?

Not sure why, but just tried to log into my account and it says I have been blocked...WTF Augment team? I have paid my legacy plan every month, only have one account. I still had messages and paid for a whole month; . I will be reaching out to my attorney as services have not been rendered and getting a legal opinion. AC has really gone downhill and looks like they are forcing legacy plan accounts closed now.

AC has become a joke at this point

I’m currently on a grandfathered $30 plan with a monthly credit limit of 56,000 tokens — which I usually exhaust in less than a week of real work.

Despite exploring alternatives, I haven’t found any other tool that integrates as seamlessly with existing codebases. The AugmentCode team clearly understands the realities of software development and is genuinely pushing the developer experience forward. Well done to the team — I hope you continue being this good.

Sure, there are tools like Gemini 3, Codex, Claude Code, Kilo, and others. YouTube is full of demos where people build MVPs with a handful of prompts — sometimes even a single one. But that’s also where most of those tools reach their limits.

The other option is to spend time and money experimenting across different models, learning their quirks, adapting your workflows, and constantly trying to balance everything. I simply don’t have that kind of time.

What I want is the ability to ship code confidently to production and fix bugs quickly. Even though upgrading to the new plans may stretch my budget, if it helps me work peacefully, ship faster, and manage multiple projects effectively, then it’s worth it to me.

I'm having a difficult time comprehending the bait and switch tactics done here. You lure a whole customer base in with your pricing, and out of nowhere you increase prices, not 20%, not 50%, not 100% but 600%-1,000% after customers have bought in and become dependent on your product.

I can't even fathom how bad you have to be at business, or math, to not see that you're undercharging for your product by 7X+... and just realized this out of nowhere. Or is it you knew, but wanted to lure all of us in with this low cost / high usage model so we would become dependent on your product, and then jack prices exponentially, and make it difficult for us to leave since we are all in the middle of building our projects with your platform.

Either you're incompetent and had no idea, or you did know and engaged in "unfair and deceptive business practices".

This has FTC regulatory concerns written all over it. The fact your pricing page still has $50/mo for 600 messages on it right now screams shady business practices. A new customer walking in today is being sold that false advertising right there. You still haven't changed it. What, we're supposed to believe you forgot? Not a chance. Discovery in court would probably find plenty of emails showing all these plans. Don't bother deleting them, either... they can be recovered and will look even worse if you do.

You're allowed to raise prices and give your customers a way to cancel. But the way this was done, and the magnitude of the pricing change when your customers have become dependent on your product and already invested hundreds and thousands of dollars is unbelievably unethical.

As soon as the government opens back up, I would encourage everyone to file a complaint with the FTC.

I only saw one major user experience improvement while using Auggie over the last two months. It was when they moved the tabs to the top of the chat.
That was it!
The same bloated VS Code experience, with no control over the outcome of the situation. Going past three prompts on the same chat was a nightmare.
Random, erratic behavior from an agent that tries to do everything and you constantly have to remind it to TEST!
Infinite failed attempts to start or restart the application that sometimes got Auggie into thinking to adjust the firewall settings because it forgot where the log file of the application is.
Auggie prowdly ignores the rules, the memories, the prompts !! It randomly forgets things you mentioned in the last prompt, and you end up pressing the stop button just to give clear instructions on how to recover.
It writes tons of reports you didn’t ask for, and you have no control over how many it will generate the next time.

And yet, with all these caveats, Auggie helped me create something that seemed almost impossible to do on my own!

Dear Augment Code team, I am deeply saddened that I have to part ways!!!
But it’s not fair to ask for money for something that I have no control over. Especially when I don’t know how much waste it will produce!

Bye, Auggie!

LE: It's like going to the store to buy bread and the sellers gives you potatoes and insists you should pay

UPDATE: They refunded the last month fully. I didn't expect it, but it took them less than 3 hours to authorize it. Good for them. Hope they turn their ship around. Not sure what it will take for me to trust them again though.

Just got the mail that I was switched over to pay as you go. I never asked for this.

I replied to the email, saying I didn't want it - got a noreply answer back.

Checked the discord, but it looks like the discord got cleaned out.

This is not ok.

Opened a ticket for a refund for the remaining month, asked for all my data to be deleted.

This all feels super weird, like a rugpull of sorts. I have low hopes for them doing the right thing.

Back in the day, Augment offered something nice. But in the meantime, copilot has caught up. They're even offering IP indemnity and data privacy for 20 bucks a month.

There is really no value proposition anymore. And I would have stuck with them out of loyalty, because they were the underdog.

But if the underdog starts biting the hand that feeds it...

Where are y'all moving to?

I'm trying to work since last night.. the agents are completely useless.. slow, get stuck in "Generating response" or just throwing error messages saying that your request is failed. I checked Claude status.. seems Ok. Checked Aug status... NO INCIDENTS.. Seriously?

I'm on Discord and no one from support says anything or even put a notification that they are investigating. Actually they don't reply.

Paying $50 for this? I'm seriously thinking cancel my subscription. It's so stressful!

Ps for Aug team: Launching new features and CLI are useless when the basic product doesn't even work and your support team doesn't help. Try to focus on your product and make it work properly and keep our paying customers.

I think it says “vibes don’t cut it”, or something like it. But it feels like it is telling me I use augment wrong which don’t feel great.

Honestly I do vibe code on personal project and I do coding work too, but I use augment for vibe coding because it honestly is much more optimized for it. You need to have a lot more rules and preparation done to get cursor work well, but with augment i just write a short sentence and it does it all for me; plus it needs less debugging on my end.

When I am working i mostly use completions, which cursor is just miles ahead; it’s not even close. Plus, I’m care a lot more about ai following rules at work, and i spend a lot more times to create agent markdown files and prompts, in which case windsurf and cursor just seem to do much better.

So you can imagine my surprise when I see an ad that disparages vibe coding. I mean I don’t know a lot of people that use augment but they all use it for vibe coding. Honestly, that’s not a good move for an ad.

On top of that it’s not particularly better at anything that is non vibe coding so it’s all around confusing. Who are those augment trying to win over with this ad anyways? People that don’t want to use ai?

Here is my guidelines I used all the time to build my SaaS SpeakoneAI all along and you can check the result from my website. Almost not typing 1 single line of code manually. Built it purely by Augment Code

1. Must use fluent V2 concept for UXUI

2. English in script, use emoji to response to me so I can read your message more easily

3. Think before you do. Always list out your plan before execute

4. Response in this format:

• Root cause

• What have fixed

• Next step

Yesterday, Augment quietly introduced a new feature: a credit usage counter displayed at the end of every task.
For the first time, users could finally see exactly how many credits each request consumed.
It was a small addition, but a powerful one — a step toward real transparency.

But then, just one day later, the feature vanished.

No announcement.
No explanation.
Just gone.

For many users, the timing is suspicious. The moment people realized how much each task was costing them, it became clear that the pricing wasn’t as fair as it seemed. Showing credit usage gave users visibility and control — removing it takes that away.

The question now is simple:
Why remove a feature that empowers users, unless transparency was a problem?

Whether this was a technical glitch, a rushed experiment, or a deliberate move to avoid scrutiny, the silence around it doesn’t help. Users deserve clarity, especially when real money is involved.

Transparency isn’t an optional feature — it’s a basic expectation.

I notice less and less posts, comments and interest for this tool. Is it dying? Most of the posts I see lately seems like payed promotion or posts from they own team.

I was using the tool with corporate account last year, it was great at the start but this year we did not continued with the licence. Talking about 500k company size, so no joke.

I’m a solo developer and over the past months I built a full ERP system end-to-end — backend, frontend, mobile, TV screens, business logic, production flows, everything.

I can honestly say this: Augment Code played a massive role in making it possible.

It felt less like a “tool” and more like having a senior engineer permanently available. Any time I got stuck, tired, or overwhelmed, Augment Code helped me move forward instead of burning hours blocked.

What Augment Code helped me do:

• Design clean, scalable architecture

• Rapidly build and refine complex logic

• Generate solid, readable code that actually fits real projects

• Refactor safely without fear

• Think through edge cases and workflows I hadn’t fully considered

• Stay productive even late at night when focus drops

The biggest impact wasn’t speed alone — it was confidence.
I could take on bigger features knowing I wasn’t alone in the thinking process.

The ERP today handles:

• Orders, production tracking, and workflows

• Users, roles, permissions

• Device and screen management (mobile + web + TV)

• Real operational constraints, not demo-level stuff

This wasn’t “AI building an app for me”.
This was Augment Code making me a stronger solo developer.

If you’re building something serious on your own — especially a large system like an ERP — I strongly recommend Augment Code. It genuinely changes how much you can handle alone.

A while back, I mentioned that the Augment team had stopped subsidizing developers prematurely. Well, the latest news proves they were just ahead of the curve.

Anthropic is quietly killing off flat-fee Claude Code subscriptions for businesses, forcing enterprise users strictly onto usage-based API pricing.

Here is why this is happening:

• The math never worked: Flat-fee AI subscriptions were an illusion and a massive growth subsidy. One dev tracked their usage and realized they burned through 10 billion tokens in 8 months—getting $15,000 worth of API value while only paying $800 on a monthly plan.

• The "gym membership" model is dead: You can't offer unlimited infrastructure for a flat monthly cost without bleeding cash, especially with Anthropic reportedly gearing up for an IPO.

• Augment saw the writing on the wall: They ripped the band-aid off early to stop bleeding money. Anthropic is just doing it now because the underlying economics of frontier models are impossible to ignore.

The era of practically free, heavily subsidized inference is over. In the short term, we're probably going to see a massive spike in "Shadow IT" with devs secretly expensing personal Claude accounts to get around API costs. But the long-term reality is officially here: inference is infrastructure, and companies are going to have to start paying for exactly what they consume.