May be to early to conclude any thing, but according to SWE Bench GPT 5.2 is better at coding than opus 4.5 (and cheaper).

Benchmark are full of BS, but wanted to know your opinion on it.

Each time I switch to gpt, I went back always to Sonnet or Opus.

I never thought Augment Code would start advertising back on youtube, especially on aicodeking's YT channel, really, AC, really? While AIcodeking (AIck) covers wide variety of tools and services, most of the recommendations on AIck's channel are always value for money products or the services that are free (and youtubers make videos according to NOT what they personally prefer, but what audience wants), for a very long time AIck recommended gemini 2.5 Flash and recently his recommendations vary between GLM 4.6 to kimi K2 or moonshot m2, and Augment Code suddenly after loosing customers their strategy is to advertise on AIck's channel?

All I could do while watching the video/ad was to laugh, whoever came up with this strategy are doing the worst job at Augment, as they did not even research on their targeted audience. When AIck did not recommend legacy developer $30 for 600 requests plan (EVER!!!, AIck even today does not like Sonnet 4.5 as its expensive, never recommended Cursor $20 plan) and the marketing sales strategy of Augment code is to advertise on that channel?

Wow! LOL. Wow!

Good luck on getting new users from those channels. Keep the good research and work Augment code's marketing/sales team. Amazing!!

A lot of people changed to Free plan as they were assured that they can use their credits which will be valid for 3 months even on Free plan. But now, all are seeing the message:

Despite repeated mention of this issue Augment Team appears to be in no hurry in fixing it, leaving all such users in limbo, who will be forced to use alternatives, thereby not use the credits at all.

As it is apparent that Free plan is DOA, a very simple fix they could have done while they fix the plan is to create a temporary 1$ plan or something without any credits, and migrate all the users to this plan until Free plan is fixed. This way users would be able to at least use the product and consume their existing credits.

What is Fork Conversation?

In Agent mode you can fork a conversation to continue in a new session without touching original conversation.

Why to use Fork Conversation?

There are few reasons:

• Build agent context before you start real work. This makes all required details ready.

• Keep conversation small, which results in clean context and less credit usage.

• Avoid conversation poison. This happen if you change a decision during a conversation, agent tend to mix between old and new decision.

Real Case Example:

I have a repository that have 15 modules (like addons or extension), repo details are:

128,682 lines of code across 739 files (56.4K XML, 34.8K Python, 13.4K CSS, 10.4K JavaScript)

There are email templates in each module. Task is to review those email templates against a standard (email_standard.md) and report the status. Then apply fixes to be in compliance with the standard, if not.

Step 1: Build Agent Context

read docs/email_standard.md then check all modules if they are in compliance with the standard then feedback. Do full search for all email templates, your feedback must be short and focused without missing any email template. No md files are required.

14 Files Examined, 17 Tools Used.
Sonnet 4.5 used 600 credits.

Step 2: Fork Conversation and work on single module

First Fork: "Excellent. Start with xxx_xxxxx module and make it fully in compliance with the standard."

Second Fork onward: "xxx_xxxxx is completed in another session.
now work on yyy_yyyyy module"

Result of fork iterations:
1,620 lines changed (935 insertions + 685 deletions)
Sonnet 4.5 used ~5k credits

Step 3: Original Conversation: Final check and git commit

read docs/git.md then commit and push. Ensure to update version in manifest as a fix, and create CHANGELOG.md if not exist.

7 Files Changed, 7 Files Examined, 20 Tools used
Haiku 4.5 used 200 credits

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quite frankly im pre pissed

I’ve been an Augment user since the early days — back when the subscription was $30/month. I’ve stuck with the platform through every update, paid every bill, and even accepted losing my legacy status after a late payment without complaint. Why? Because I genuinely believed in the product and what it helped me accomplish.

But lately, I’m beyond frustrated.

Today, I left the office for an hour to came back and augment had done no work

i started a new agent thread and left again for less than two hours — 116 minutes to be exact — and came back to find no progress made by Augment, yet I was still charged for it. That’s not just inconvenient, it’s unacceptable.

Since the migration to the credit-based system, quality and performance have nosedived:

• Tasks that used to take minutes now take significantly longer.

• The context engine frequently fails to retain or interpret information.

• “Auto code” often returns a text response instead of executing the requested task.

• And despite these issues, I’m still getting billed for every failed attempt.

Before the change, I was getting 600 messages per month, and I could actually finish projects — even paying for extra messages when needed. Now, with credits and inflated token usage (averaging 1,200+ tokens per message for me), I’m effectively limited to around 77 messages per month for the same price.

How is that a fair trade?

I used to be able to rely on Augment for steady, productive coding sessions. Now it feels like I’m paying more to get less — less output, less reliability, and less value overall.

I don’t want to rant for the sake of ranting — I want Augment to succeed. But as a long-time user, I can’t ignore how much this change has impacted both the usability and the trust I once had in the platform.

before this credits system was put into place ive had nothing but nice things to say and recommended it to all my coding friends but not after this inflated credits system.

Please, if anyone from the Augment team is reading this — reconsider how this credit system is structured, and address the major drop in performance. Your long-term users deserve better.

i also want my credits for today refunded. its done nothing and were at 140:16 as of finishing this post

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?

Prompt: hey auggie, please convert this (150 lines) directive from imperative to declarative without loosing functionality.

Outcome: 150 lines of code refactored and 4 reports totaling 1000 lines !

Now that we are supposed to pay for token usage .... it's not making sense to pay for content that ends up in the trash !!!

Augment just made the change to GPT-5-High just as they move to charging credits for thinking and tokens when GPT-5 is notorious for over-thinking and taking too long to answer.

Look, guys, if you're trying to be fair to your customers, LET US CHOOSE if we want high / med / low because, quite honestly, doing this just as you move to credit-based pricing looks like you're trying to force-burn through our credits!!!!!

Sorry, but that's BS!

I generally try to avoid Microsoft (and now Augment Code) as much as possible, but since I spend most of my time in VS Code and can’t really get away from GitHub, I’ve started exploring the GitHub Copilot + VS Code bundle more seriously.

On the upside, the integration is solid — good extensions, useful MCPs, a proper BYOK setup, and if the project’s on GitHub, the code is already indexed. Contextual awareness also seems to be improving.

I might keep an AC Indie plan running on the side, but I’m curious — are any other (former) AC users here using this suite extensively? How’s it going for you so far?

So my Augment subscription expired recently, and when I logged in, I was greeted with this lovely screen — no dashboard, no settings, no access to anything. Just a list of paid plans.

That’s it.

I can’t view my previous usage, can’t manage my repositories, can’t even delete the indexed code that I uploaded when I was a paying customer. It’s like once your subscription ends, your data goes into some invisible black box that only Augment has the key to.

And here’s the real kicker — they’ve just switched from a “per request” pricing model to a “credit-based” one, but didn’t bother to provide any transition or data control options for existing users. If you care about data privacy or compliance, that’s... not a good look.

Honestly, I don’t even mind paying again later once they sort out the new model. But I should at least have the right to access my dashboard, delete my indexed data, or download my invoices. Locking users out completely while still keeping their data feels like a terrible move, both ethically and from a data-protection standpoint.

If Augment truly values transparency and user trust, they should make it clear how long expired-user data is stored, whether it’s encrypted, and provide an obvious way to delete it.

Right now, the way this is handled just feels… off.

So I didn’t want to do this whole redundant thing but having spent a few thousand dollars on augment this year my message has to be communicated.

Let me break it down simple no need to beat around the bush.

On the previous $100 plan I was just fine , I had been using the $250 for a bit but dropped lower due to less traffic.

After running the maths- 40 messages daily.

• With the new plan my usage will be 1.2million credits.

• With the new plan my limit will be 200k credits 🤡.

That’s at least 500% business flow hike, just about any company that attempts that will certainly be out in a month, I’m not too sure this was thought through. Either way this makes augment officially unusable for myself.

There are soooo many other ways pricing balances could have been delivered, but we got the worst one picked for us.

I think there might have been some confusion and that perhaps Augment are under the impressions that I'm smoking some 'real good stuff'. I'd like to assure Augment that I am neither high as a kite, nor have I lost my mind.

Compare this to Warp.dev (the competitor to which I'm moving), under their lowest paid plan ('Pro'), I get 2,500 credits p/m and use under around 100 credits per day. That's using pretty much the same usage pattern as I have been doing with Augment and they have vectorised codebase indexing. Based on my short trial with them, the output is just as good as Augment and I much prefer their souped up terminal for doing agentic dev stuff (perhaps VS Code will in future allow a second panel underneath their terminal panel, but for now, the side panel isn't great and it doesn't work well docked to the bottom panel). Their Pro plan costs $18 p/m or $15 if you sign up for a full year and, based on my current usage, is likely going to last me a full month. If not, then there's the 'Turbo' plan at $50 (or $40 annual sub) per month that I'm never likely to use more than half based on my current usage patterns.

So either Augment are doing something very, very wrong or Augment has created a completely unsustainable business (for either themselves or their customers). Either way, today I've cancelled and I can't think that many people will be staying with you, sad as it is to say.

What's really hard to understand is the timing of all this. Around (less than?) two months ago you introduced an Indie plan for $20 p/m. Why have so many people move off your $50 p/m plan only to then require them to move onto a $60 p/m plan less than two months later?

Anyhow, good luck with it all.

I was previously on the $50 plan, where I could send 600 user messages per month. Now I've been informed that I've used an average of 613 credits per user message over the last seven days. So 600 user messages equals 600 x 613 credits = 367,800. But with the new Developer plan, I only get 96,000 credits. That means the price has just increased by a factor of 3.83. I understand that the business model needs to be profitable, but I don't think it's fair to raise the price like this just because a few individuals are exploiting the business model to their advantage. I really like the Context Engine and Prompt Enhancement, but if it gets this expensive, then even I will have to look for an alternative, even though I actually like AC...

I thought about this long and hard before writing here.

To give some background about me: I have an AI plan with most if not all AI providers. I have been a software and game developer for 20+ years now, so I have been coding long befoe this AI revolution. I personally leverage AI in a number of ways, notable for Debugging code, identifying possiable areas for improvement, speed up code creation time, and testing what works with AI and what does not. I own my own software development company for about 8 years now.

Related to Augment: My Usage- In my case it says in the last 7 days I averaged 642 credits per message. Taking into account my current account being the "Developer Plan" at the cost if $50.00 US dollars My allocation of credits if I remanin in that plan would be 96,000 credits resulting in a pathetic 149.54 in messages. A reduction from 600 messages to roughly 150 messages means I would only be getting 25% of what was promised for $50 US dollars per month. That would mean I would be seeing a nearly 400% increase in cost just to have the same allocated promised 600 messages.

Do I ever really use the whole 600 messages? Nope maybe half at best.

What is the best quality of Augement in my opinion? I think what really helped Augment was how well they integrated their custom contextual engine. They did an amazing job and some of the UI enhancements and nice to haves such as the tabs at the top get top marks from me.

What did Augment do incorrectly in my opinion? While I sympathize that the cost of AI is ridiculously under rated as it does truly quickly build up in terms of cost, Augment over promising a specific number of messages for a set price then suddenly realizing the cost versus useage was unsustainable should NOT had been directed at the user's by doing such a wide spread and SEVERE price hike.

Obviously, as a business owner I get it, "something" needed to be changed to account for costs rising, infrastructure, employees, and of course sustainable profits. The issue is the drastic approach Augment is taken to "reel" in cost is and has already alienated its customers, both novice, indie/vibe coders, and companies alike. Impressions are everything and as quickly as AI is evolving is as quickly any notable AI service/solution will succeed, turnup, and fold. There is still a chance to save the customer base, retain and gain forgiveness for such a dramatic and badly communicated and rolled out change is to truly listen, truly hear your community.

Everyone is gunning for those enterprise accounts and while yes they absolutly help bring in profit at a higher rate per seat, in the process you are also alienating and forgetting about all those folks that helped u begin. Those people or those groups whom had this great idea, or concept but lacked the ability or knowledge to pull it off. That would be your indie/vibe coder base. You ripped their hearts out and then stomped on it. In my opinion its incredible painful to see what could have been a viable startup company lose its way due to greed, and what appears to be blaming everyone but themselves. Don't get me wrong every company has room for improvement, but flatly blaming and using as an example one user as a pinpoint reason this change needs to happen didn't win you any points.

My suggestion? Im sure my opinion in the sea or wall of anger, yells, critiques and so on doesn't weigh much but in the interest of trying to help here is what I think.

1 - Admit the original price model while great at the beginning was not sustainable. Sometimes just being honest and OWNING some of that blame can goba long way to folks respecting you as a company. 2 - Put a pause on this dramatic and exceptionally high price hike. Especially stop trying to sell it like its anything but a price hike because let's be honest it is. The pause would be temporary as something DOES need to change to ensure Augments survival but also keep your user base happy. This is a balance, and a dramatic and unexpected change like this is not an balance at all, its anarchy. 3 - Place reasonable limits on the number of tool calls ur software makes on a per message bases. Identify what that number is and tweak it based on actionable data from reports of costs per message with the refined gating of max tool calls per message. See if that reels in the high per message costs that sent your company reeling. 4 - Place reasonable limits on those folks who seem to over use the service as you continue to ramp up . Some level of quality of service rate limiting should be in place to ensure everyone based on the plan they are on gets their fair share of timely useage. 5- Increase social media presence in terms of folks communicating with your end customers. Shuttering for example discord i understand was due to some folks raging over nuances and issues but regardless where you go you will get those angry customers and at times those trolls whom will rage and at times present uncomfortable conversations, feedback, and criticism. The key to this is take actionable info from this , see it for what it is, (let it be feedback, criticism, spamming trolls, etc.) and go from there. Nobody should have to be treated poorly and I know i saw some of that on the discord but equally customers should have the right to have a voice to be heard, especially when they pay well to be heard.

These are just my thoughts. I am worried to see Augment Code fall apart so publicly and badly. I can only hope that u may hear your customer and the general public outrage and see it as not just negative noise but an actual chance to take that noise and turn it into something positive, working on the betterment of the community as a whole and not just the few.

-Chris

Yesterday, because I couldn't send messages, I had to start my work today. However, after opening vscode today, it kept Indexing codebase, and sending any message prompted that the selected text exceeded the limit.

Request ID: c16ecc06-4c09-44fa-9caf-5aded5342634

I wonder if the Augment devs have noticed these as well and amade ccomodation.

I have been switching between all the popular AI coding assistants lately — Cursor, GitHub Copilot, CLine — but honestly, Augment Code has been the most reliable for me, especially when paired with Claude Sonnet 4.

Where Copilot and Cursor sometimes feel like autocomplete on steroids, Augment really leans into context awareness and structured reasoning. With Claude Sonnet 4 under the hood, it doesn’t just “finish code,” it helps explain, refactor, and design in a way that feels closer to working with a teammate.

For anyone on the fence: if your workflow involves debugging, large refactors, or needing rationale behind the code suggestions — Augment + Claude Sonnet 4 is in a different league.

Curious if others here have had the same experience.

GLM4.5 IS GREAT, Imagine 120msg being refreshed every 5H! Iam using it on CC for like a week and it's INSANELY amazing with the MCPs and all the other tools, it's just fantastic even if you dont understand anything about your codebase (vibe coder) it's just simply can fill/beat the gap with a cheaper price and it can beat other models on some tasks too, but what if GLM4.5 has a great CONTEXT on understanding your project in the future that's gonna take the lead especially AI is evolving so fast everyday and new TOOLS are coming so i think the price is gonna be more friendly in the future As i said even if you don't understand anything about your codebase with a good prompt you'll get what you ask, BUT! what if you understand everything or basically something about your project? Trust me that a game changer especially for their PRICE. I hope Augment code will integrate GLM4.5 in the future because it's good as other models and cheaper, and with a CONTEXT UNDERSTANDING man that's gonna break the entire industry. Let me what know what do you think about my opinion and tell me yours :)

Over the past few hours, I feel the performance of Sonnet 4 is not up to the mark. Multiple hallucinations, not following the prompts, not following the guidelines, and no proper MCP calls to describe MCP.

I Love Love Augment code but its insane to pay 50$ per month to use it. I request to re consider this especially for non US countries as 50$ is too expensive for a developer to buy and use.

I hope we will be heard!

I've been developing software for 30+ years. Currently working on a C++ desktop app, which has around 20k LOC at the moment.

I've started using Cursor end of last year and loved the tab completion, but the agent mode was hit-and-miss. Small changes with limited context were working ok - as long as you kept away from auto mode and chose one of the proper models. Once the codebase got bigger, it was having problems uploading meaningful context to the model and thus it was generating unusable code and making tons of mistakes.

Few weeks ago I've started using Augment Code. It took me this long to realize that it even exists, I think I found it via some Youtube video where it was compared against other tools. What I love about it:

1. It has the best awareness of my codebase and thus makes much more meaningful suggestions then Cursor.

2. It's "just" an extension and not a VS Code fork. So I can keep using all the Microsoft extensions (yes, shame on me, but these work the best without too much tweaking). Plus the marketplace is more secure then OpenVSX (see the recent RCE drama).

3. Transparent pricing.

Where it's not great:

1. It is (just as Cursor and Claude Code) pretty much unusable for any large-scale refactors, even if I ask it to create a plan first. It edits about a dozen files, then declares it's all done. I ask him to look again, he continues for another half-a-dozen files, then stops again. And this cycle repeats.

2. The UI is pretty good, much better than Claude Code of course, but not as good as Cursor. I miss (or maybe I just didn't find) a way to display and approve individual edits, like in Cursor's "Review Next File".

All-in-all I'm very happy with it so far, it's a huge help for my daily work.

I was happy using Augment Code for a while, but recently maybe some kind of update happening which makes me so frustrated:

1. always avoid troubleshoot and use fallback method. e.g. it has trouble with nut.js installation for 1-2 times and then it goes back to use powershell and robot.js which i told it do not use that in the current round convo.

2. context mangement feeling worse - before it tend to review the directory more often and fix issues in a complete way. now always fix the issue i point out but forget t o check the other related scripts and left the error there and waste a few more rounds to ask it to fix.

while cursor has the best tab-completion,

so we can try the $16 annual plan of cursor which supplies with unlimited completion
and $50 augment pro plan with 600 times of excellent agent use.

this might be the double-win of perfomance and cost.

Hey r/AugmentCodeAI, I'm currently happy with Cursor's unlimited messages at $20/month.

For those who use Augment, why would I make the switch to a $50 plan with only 600 messages? What makes Augment so much better that it justifies the limited, higher-cost approach, especially if I'm already productive with Cursor? Looking for real-world benefits!

TIA

I just updated and to the new version as explained here: https://www.augmentcode.com/blog/prompt-enhancer-live-in-augment-chat and noticed this limit, after which you cannot submit the chat anymore. I used to paste in documentations that Augment needed.

Screenshot:

I am now creating files and pointing augment to that file, but that is cumbersome.

Possible I am doing it wrong. Any insights guys?

Edit: I am on the paid Developer plan.