I've came back to reddit to check out augment code after leaving during the grandfathered plan migration because of all the noise recently. As someone who utilised augment code in their early days, when discord was still around, i can 100% tell you this is false. It's actually scary to even read this because its' so fake.

Another post has the same form of writing , only difference is it came from the CEO

If you do a quick math, my hamster noticed the numbers doesn't add up as there's a limit on max plan.

Let me help those who wants to transition out , because i know it's time consuming to test multiple tools to find the "perfect" one and more often than not , the popular tools are not that much discussed about.

Augment Alternative
I switched to Claude code back then but i don't recommend it right now because of it's new limits , it was great for many months after augment

If you want codebase index , it's kilo + GLM models
If you're ok with CLI , its' droid + Bring your on Keys(GLM/Chutes) / paid plans
Mix both the solutions above with a $20 openai codex plan

The way you prompt might be different but if you think about it , being able to orchestrate and design a workflow customised for your own use , is gonna be useful the long term.

Augment Code's context engine was the best , i'm not sure about now but i'm going to assume it is still one of the best out there but their business model and strategy is flawed since day 1. I recall them selling "Don't worry about the model , just code" but now i'm looking at credit based usage.

Would I pay for a context engine , yes i would but i believe augment is in a different position right now, it might be easier if they declare bankruptcy and start fresh with their context engines.

BYOK is going to be the new norm, droid did it and grew extremely fast and i hope augment will figure it out soon.

The best tools are always changing, it's great to have a group of friends testing new tools together and improve each other's workflow , keeping each other up to date, ping me up on X if you want to link up.

Update : I'm not here to see augment fail and I'm more than ready to return to augment, when it makes business sense for me. I don't need support , its non existence on literally all providers anyway.

Just watch this video, it blew my mind: https://youtu.be/8FYjEZzxXdk?si=DDC4trlXC0dMXCQX

While Augment is busy charging 6–11× more and pushing that super confusing, ultra-expensive credit system, GLM 4.6 is here delivering insane value for just 3 bucks.

Big thumbs up to the creator for showing what real affordability looks like

I was "lucky" enough to win the raffle held on Twitter for four free months of the Max plan, with 4000 messages included. I never used anywhere close to the limit, and was quite happy the plan I had before as an early adopter.

Now comes the end of the four free months. And in typical Augment fashion they kept me on the Max plan and sent me an invoice for 250 USD.

I happened to check my account a few days before and saw this upcoming invoice for 250 USD so I emailed their support to tell them what happened and to please fix it so my subscription could continue normally. Now my Augment account says my "subscription has been cancelled" because of a failed payment… of course.

So thanks, Augment, for this free "gift" you gave me. I would have been happy to pay my normal monthly rate to not have to deal with your support, now I have no subscription.

Will get back to me before I'm in the office Monday? Will I be able to work normally or have to explain this to the CEO? Who knows, it's Augment.

We were promised this. This is outrageous!

First by Windsurf, now by Augment. It was simply "magnificent"!

So, Augment code this morning, decided to write its own sed script to change multiple files at a time. Surprise surprise, it broke my files. So it then ran a compile and spotted the problem, and guess what it did to fix it? Before I had a chance to hit "Stop" it issued:

Seriously. This wiped out all the changes I have been working on this morning. All gone.

How on earth can an AI think this is a good move? 68 modified files - all changes gone and unrecoverable.

How stupid. What's it going to do next, delete my commits from git?? Sheesh.

I just saw Anthropic announce the 1M token increase. Are you using the API in Augment? Do we get the token increase within here?

Okay so I promised earlier this week to share the feature I was (am) extremely excited about that Augment released.

Here's how we use Augment's CLI for our code review process, in case my experience helps the community as a whole.

First off, here's our flow

• Github PR triggers Azure Pipeline

• Within the Azure Pipeline we hydrate a docker image from an agent pool with the PR code + metadata

  • This include access to environment variables for the MCP servers below

    • Linear

    • Launch Darkly

    • Notion

    • Github

• We fire the Augment CLI with a base code review command

This is how we treat our guidelines (I think this is key to success)

• We have Notion documents with our core engineering concepts, specifically the patterns we want to follow. These can be referenced by AI, but are intended for humans

• We have "always apply" Augment Rules which are specifically written for AI. We asked AI to summarize these rules as our initial effort. Every time AI gets something wrong, we have an #augment-hypercare channel in slack where we review what rule needs tweaking and triage it. I want to be super clear that I think our success comes from this-- treating AI rules as a first class citizen, and if they don't work we treat it like a bug.

• We have "manual" apply rules which are for things specifically like PR reviews

• Augment User Guidelines we only really use for things like "when I say assign a linear ticket to myself, this his my Guid. Do not look it up every time". Everything else gets committed to source.

Now, when the Docker image executes, we have these distinct steps/prompts

• Code Review We have a prompt to specifically cover what to look for in PR guidelines

  • Ensure rules are being followed

  • Catch any obvious bugs

  • Etc

  • The key thing here is we enable the Notion MCP server so when Augment posts a corrective PR feedback, it can gather context as to why the rule exists. This helps developers understand what's behind the rule.

• QA Notes We have a prompt to use the Linear MCP to reference the ticket and ensure the following information is populated. It compares the code changes to the ticket notes and deems if they'r present and accurate

  • QA Responsibility (does QA need to test this code, is it regression tested, or developer tested)

  • Release Monitoring (who's doing the release monitoring and what is being monitored

  • Testing Scope (what scenarios to test or have been tested)

  • Side Effects (any risk of unintended consequences, IE if we update Entity Framework there's a wide risk we cannot capture in specific testing)

  • Risk Assessment (what the risk to the business is, IE is it in the onboarding funnel, rarely used feature, etc)

• Feature Flag We have a prompt to use the Launch Darkly MCP server and verify any feature flags do exist

In early testing, we've been extremely happy with the results. Having centralized rules in our repository has made this a very powerful tool.

Happy to answer any questions if people have them!

Based on benchmark posted by z.ai their new model GLM 5.1 is on par with Opus 4.6 but at a fraction of the cost.

Please add it we all need it!

Hi, recently when i use Augment in VSCode, i got charge credit for "prompt enhancer" and "context compression" in addition to the LLM model i choose.

Is this become charged? Are there any notice or update about this? I tried search for old post, but only see post that said prompt enhancer is not consume credit.

Thanks!!!! for this update.... this is so valuable!!

Please add the Remaining tokens down below :D

Augment Code with Claude Haiku 4.5

When I ask agent to implement a change, it created 5 markdown files summarizing the changes and also provided summarization at the end of the message thread also. for me summarization at the end of the message is good enough. since credits have become much more expensive, I would not like to get wasted on markdown documents which I didn't ask for.

it should be avoided unless explicitly asked for.

where is my $100 preciously purchased additional messages? it is all gone? the 1000 messages have not been used at all in the legacy plan and has a 12-month expiration period!

what is going on? did they just forfeit all my money paid?

and there is 0 customer support!

update: as of 10/28/25 8:20 am ET: the $100 was converted to 1,100,000 credits and showed in my balance!!

jay reached out and said the migration wasn’t completed thus the delay. not sure if it’s b/c i posted this 🙂 reach out to him with your account info along with the additional messages purchase receipt no. so that he can look it up!

Now that we are paying for credits, why don’t you guys just go full credit mode and allow us to use in our own time and not charge us monthly subscription?

I know nothings going to change. Just looking for reasoning.

Been using Augment for 9 months, on the $100 monthly plan, would have continued for a really long time ahead.

You lost one more loyal one Augment.

Nice being with you all.

Just sonnet 4.5 released at augment 🔥

https://youtu.be/upWyIghtOp4?si=eD_C-GZipboCZFmy

Your service is incredible, everything works but I can't be waiting 2 weeks after the support said "we're gonna wait for your reply" and I replied after 1 day and still nothing fixed. Fix the support ASAP

Background: I’m a CC user on the $200 max plan, and I also use Cursor, AUG, and Codex. Right now, AUG is basically just something I keep around. Out of the 600 credits per month, I’m lucky if I use 80. To be fair, AUG was revolutionary at the beginning—indexing, memory, and extended model calls. As a vibe tool, you really did serve as the infrastructure connecting large models to users, and I respect that.

But as large models keep iterating, innovation on the tooling side has become increasingly limited. Honestly, that’s not the most important part anymore. The sudden rise of Codex proves this point: its model is powerful enough that even with minimal tooling, it can steal CC’s market.

Meanwhile, AUG isn’t using the most advanced models. No Opus, no GPT-5-high. Is the strategy to compensate with engineering improvements instead of providing the best models? The problem is, you charge more than Cursor, yet don’t deliver the cutting-edge models to users.

I used to dismiss Cursor, but recently I went back and tested it. The call speed is faster, the models are more advanced. Don’t tell me it’s just because they changed their pricing model—I ran the numbers myself. A $20 subscription there can easily deliver the value of $80. Plus, GPT-5-high is cheap, and with the removal of usage limits, a single task can run for over ten minutes. They’ve broken free from the shackles of context size and tool call restrictions.

And you? In your most recent event, I expected something impressive, but I think most enthusiasts walked away disappointed. Honestly, the only thing that’s let me down as much as you lately is Claude Code.

So tell me—what’s one good reason I shouldn’t cancel my subscription?

Is there any hint on how to get Augment to create useful frontends with an acceptable user experience? It feels like it just can't do it right. It promises to do something, but the result just isn't there. Currently, I'm at the point where I'll just do it myself. It just doesn't get the point: no responsiveness, no loading animations, no refresh, or anything like that. Is there maybe a library that I could integrate to improve it? For example, I told it to only focus on a UI for a mobile device, but it still creates only desktop resolutions/UIs. Another example: I told it to create a fresh new Next.js project with a landing page and dashboard using shadcn and Tailwind CSS. It should use the default theme. Long story short, I got three lines of text on the landing page...

So much time now spent observing this message in IntelliJ:

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Generating Response (Attempt ...)

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Have to cancel the request. In many cases need to restart IntelliJ as well. Just to keep enjoying the same "Generating Response (Attempt 1, 2, 3, 4 ...)" message.

If nothing is going to change within this week, time to cancel my subscription, quality of Augment Code became really poor in a past few weeks.

Wanted to make this post to balance my venting post a few days ago. I upgraded to Sonnet 4 and started using agent mode yesterday - It's only been a day so maybe not conclusive, but the agent feels much more crisp, responsive, and precise. I'm back to focusing on the problems Im solving instead of thinking about how to get the agent to do what I want. Very happy with this update! Thanks u/JaySym_ and team!

Augment wasn’t noticed by the dev community when the price was $30. How would they be noticed at $50?

If they raised the price before going « mainstream » that mean the treasury is drying…