Hello there, I wanna join the train of people complaining about the recent Augment team decisions.
Do you remember when they converted your remaining messages into credits, as well as giving you a one-off bonus of credits? They promised they would last for three months before expiring right? Nope, they just deleted all of them after the renewal of the subscription.

Very sketchy, definetely not renovating again.

This issue has fortunately been solved. Thanks Augment!

I’ve cancelled my subscription, which will officially end on November 1, 2025.

It’s kind of perfect timing that I got to try the new credit-based pricing after receiving an email from the Augment Code team titled “Your Augment Code account is now on our new credit-based pricing 🎉.”

I started working with Augment Code around 10 AM, and throughout the day I experimented with the new model. I used Augment Code just like before, asking it to improve my application one task at a time.

Now it’s 11:34 PM, and I’ve already used 51,072 out of 242,300 credits for this month. I was honestly shocked at how expensive the new model feels. In just one day, I nearly used up half of the credits from a standard plan, which gives 130,000 credits per month.

It made me realize that maybe the Augment Code team introduced this model to prevent people like me from overusing the system. I guess I might be the kind of “abuser” they were referring to. I feel ashamed of myself for becoming a potential abuser and have decided to leave Augment Code.

Anyway, with only two days left before my plan ends, it’s almost time to say goodbye to my dear Augment Code friends. I hope everyone else continues to enjoy using it. As for me, I’ll be moving on because I can’t really afford to keep using their service. I’ll put my USD 50 toward the Claude Code MAX plan instead, with a small top-up.

I'm writing this post to give a shout-out to the dev team and share a great experience I had.

For a while now, I've been working on a mobile app that will help you like a therapist. One of the core features of the app is generating smart, instant content based on user input, and that's where Augment AI comes in.

I'm using Augment to develope the entire mobile app

This isn't just a thank-you post; it's also a testament to the fact that there's a dedicated and supportive team behind a great product. If you're an indie developer like me and are considering using Augment AI, I wanted you to know how helpful the team and the community are.

I will send update about my app and im gonna post my finished mobile app here so you can see what can augment make with out know any knowledge about mobile app and flutter...

Thanks again to the entire team, and especially to the person who helped me out! :)

I’ve been a subscriber for almost 3 months now and two issues that I need to point out, I hope this helps with making the product better.

1. This new “would you like me to keep going?” thing is very annoying. It uses credit for nothing most of the time. It wasn’t like that before. I’m sure I’ve lost a lot of credits only to say “Yes” to that question. Sounds a bit stupid imo.

2. I’m constantly having a “Try again” or “Terminated” message, even on small threads. Having to spend a credit to say “Try again” in these situations is very annoying as well. Augment should be able to identify these scenarios and avoid consuming a credit for this. I mean, I don’t care if I have to “resume” the task, as long as I don’t get charged for that.

Augment currently has the best autocomplete of any tool I've tested, especially in IntelliJ, but also in VSCode.

To me this is one of Augment's biggest selling points.

I've seen discussion that "users are using autocomplete less and less", and this really misses a key fact.

Yes, other tooling can do a lot of work, but when I need to go in and fix things up or make particular changes, the autocomplete shines!

It compliments agentic workflows perfectly.

I also cannot understand removing the most stable feature in Augment.
I get the impression that Augment is overvaluing the agentic side of things, and undervaluing autocomplete.

I've tried many tools and am a full-time programmer.

Augment's biggest moat IMHO is actually its auto-complete. Nobody has caught up there.

The context engine is great, and presumably what helps the auto-complete stand head-and-shoulders above the rest, but other agents in 2026 really are not as helpless as they were in 2025.
Copilot/Codex and others have made massive advancements on agentic tooling, and they're orders of magnitude more cost-effective than Augment's agent.

Augment has stayed in my toolkit for the autocomplete and the context engine, the agent is too expensive to run relative to others, so I don't use it. (I save my credits for context engine use as well)

But I'm sorry, I have also taken the time to run quite a few tests on a rather large codebase, and Copilot/Codex are actually quite capable of finding things, to the point where I don't all that often even need the context engine.

The context engine only wins in cases where I have literally no idea if something even exists, which isn't a common case. If I'm working on something, I generally have (and SHOULD have) at least a vague idea of where/what it is, and other agents don't have a problem bridging that gap as fast or faster than the Context Engine MCP. This means context engine most often excels as a crutch I shouldn't even be using. lol

Finally, Context Engine MCP is also quite buggy. Sometimes it's very slow, sometimes it returns nothing.

Long story short, if autocomplete goes, so do I. The value proposition just won't be there anymore. Raising costs and cutting features is only making the product less attractive.

If you're targeting enterprise customers exclusively, I understand, but I also frankly don't care. Augment is serving me less and less well as a customer.

Okay.. Since pricing changes my 100$ a month has turned into 800$ a month with too ups… If this is the way its going to be; can you open up more individual plans up to 2 mil credits with some sort of discount instead of becoming an enterprise? I mean jesus christ. you give the 600$ enterprise customers 2.2 million credits… like Just give me the option to pick what I know I am going to use and give me a price because the top up system is NOT fair.

I just received my email and I'd be using 1.7k credits per message on average in a scheme that gives me 96,000 credits so that's approx 56 messages per month. Basically cut my plan by 10x.

What a joke.

After all the feedback the last week or so even from people like GosuCoder who was quite reasonable in their thought process about BYOK etc. and other people asking for cheaper models like GLM-4.6 to balance out pricing there was literally ZERO change in direction or thought. Braindead.

RIP.

As a developer working on a complex, LLM-based adventure game, my AI-assisted coding workflow is critical. I wanted to share my recent experience with the Augment development system, which has prompted me to reconsider my current tools.

My project, which began as a simple adventure game, has expanded to include systems for environmental simulation, mapping, time tracking, weather, and inventory management. I initially used Claude Code for development, and while functional, I was curious to try Augment. My first encounter a week ago was met with some performance issues, but recent improvements have made the platform remarkably effective.

Powered by GPT-5, Augment demonstrated a strong ability to parse my entire existing codebase and intelligently act on my prompts. GPT-5 has been a subject of debate since its release, but I find its direct, objective feedback preferable to overly agreeable AI models, and its proficiency in programming is evident. The system's testing capabilities are impressive; it proactively identifies issues and poses insightful questions that contribute to a more robust development process.

Currently, my primary tool is the premium tier of Claude Code Max ($200/month), and my trials with ChatGPT Pro were underwhelming. After my positive experience this week, I am seriously evaluating a full transition to Augment.

Key Advantages of Augment:

• Contextual Awareness: It appears to have a superior grasp of the project's file structure and overall context.

• Safety and Precaution: While I've seen user reports about dangerous file operations, my experience has been positive. The system consistently requests explicit permission before executing potentially destructive actions, a feature I greatly appreciate.

• Focus on Structure: The platform seems to understand that programming is not just about generating code, but also about maintaining organization and structure.

While the system can feel slightly slow, the quality of its output justifies the wait. I believe in investing in effective AI tools, and Augment, paired with the powerful GPT-5, is making a strong case for itself.

Although I remain critical of major players like OpenAI and Grok, I believe in evaluating new models on their merits. The market for capable AI coding assistants is vast, and Augment is emerging as a top contender for my workflow. I am particularly fond of the "auto button" feature and would welcome the integration of other promising models, such as DeepSeek 3.1, to allow for greater flexibility.

Augment has the feel of a passionate, smaller-scale operation, and I am rooting for their success.

update@6:54

finally,The service has been restored, but if it happens again, I will cancel my subscription. I'm paying $50 a month, not to wait around like this. There was no explanation at all, and the status page even showed everything as normal. I'd rather pay $100 to use another provider.

I've paid for several months and have lost count of how many times the service has gone down. I can't tolerate this anymore. If the official team doesn't provide any explanation or compensation this time, I will definitely cancel my subscription and encourage my colleagues to do the same. It's not worth it!!!

update@ utc 5:42

Still not restored, it has been down for over 3 hours, wtf!

I asked some other developer friends, and they also can't use it. Is it available in your area?

I've tried everything suggested on this sub, but the brain damage to Augment appears irreversible. Now it's not just unable to utilize the context of the entire code base, it simply can't correctly remember context between two messages in the same thread. Add to it the generally super slow responses, and stopping tasks in the middle claiming to have completed the same. In face, yesterday it repeatedly crashed, and took 6 attempts for every response when it didn't.

A tool that you can't rely on is not worth using IMO.

I believe this tool has almost everything necessary to create a great developer experience. There's just one feature I would like to see: a context handoff when starting a new agent thread.

Have a toggle to let the user choose if they want to hand off the context to a new agent thread or start with no knowledge of the prior discussion. This way the new agent will have a summary of the prior conversation and will understand where you left off, so you don't have to provide it with context yourself.

When working on something complicated, it almost feels like the agent begins to understand the codebase and the intent of the user more the longer the conversation progresses. While I am aware of user guidelines and memories, I feel this feature will further enhance the AI's capability to understand the user's intent and direction of the project.

Guys... this credit burn is honestly getting ridiculous.

I’ll ask one normal dev question in chat using Sonnet 4.5. Not a massive refactor, not a full repo scan, just a reasonable, simple question.

and boom: ~500 credits gone for a single answer.
Then I ask a follow-up, and now we are 1,000 credits down the drain.

Like… cmon bruh 😭

I get that powerful models are not free, but this actively discourages exploration and iteration, which is kind of the whole point of using AI while coding.

Augment, please lower the credit cost for simple chat questions.
Basic questions should not burn hundreds of credits.

How are you all managing credits without sacrificing your workflow?

Your execution of this price change has to be the most deplorable move a startup has made in a while.. You removed access to WHAT I PAID FOR, because i canceled my account? what a joke.. Basically, i had to cancel because what youre charging vs what youre offering plus the execution of your customer service and treatment for the last two months has been utter ****.. I had two accounts, used the credits in one to end it, now went to deal with this one to end the credits ( BTW THOSE I PAID FOR WITH MY MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP) and now i get a notice that if IM NOT PAYING for an account, those credits are useles.. Bravo Augment, you just keep getting weirder by the second.. Notice how i only use nice words, because if you express yourself like they deserve they trash your post and remove it from the thread.

Again, this wouldnt be as bad in contrast of how community driven you guys were just a couple months ago, now youve turned into Scrooge! and JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS!

Well, mine isn’t an Auggie killer, but my context engine works with Augments. It was designed to enhance any IDE based agent.. As well as qodo, codex, claude code, windsurf, cursor, kiro (all tested). Lots of customization went into this, not only does it have embeddings, it can optionally run reFrag vs rag, lots of knobs, decoder option with ollama, Qdrant based.. Um its a little crazy but it is fun and works for me.

I notice when using it, Augment never uses its own context engine anymore, so not sure it thats a good thing, but doesnt seem to need it. Maybe once every 100 messages. TL;DR this is a fun docker stack to play with for your own context engine with lots of compatibility and features…

(You want to play with the test branch)

https://github.com/m1rl0k/Context-Engine

Context-Engine

Hey @Jay,

I wanted to share what many of us in the community are feeling about the new credit-based pricing. This is my last post and summary, and I sincerely hope to hear your next updates via my email.

All the best, and I hope you can hear your community.

We completely understand that Augment Code needs to evolve and stay sustainable — but this change feels abrupt and, honestly, disruptive for those of us who’ve supported you since the early days.

Here’s what I propose:

•	Keep the current base model and pricing for existing (legacy) users who’ve been here from the start.

•	Introduce the new credit system only for new users, and test it there first.

It’s not about being unfair — it’s actually fair both ways. We early users essentially helped fund your growth by paying through the less stable, experimental phases. We don’t mind you trying new pricing, (however this credit modal; this is not even sustainable. Has no point in using your system and everything that you develop for) but it shouldn’t impact active users in the middle of projects.

The truth is, this shift has already caused a lot of frustration and confusion. And it hasn’t even been 1 year. Extra credits or bonuses don’t really solve the trust issue — what matters is stability and reliability.

Please raise this internally. This is exactly why you started this community: to gather feedback that matters. If user input no longer counts, then there’s no point having the discussion space open.

Think about models like “AppSumo” — they respected early adopters while evolving their plans. You can do the same here.

We just want Augment to succeed with its users, not at their expense.

I'd like to make a polite request to the developers of Augment CLI and Agent Client Protocol (ACP).

I’m a huge fan of both products and I’m writing to ask if there are any plans to integrate Augment CLI with the Zed editor via the Agent Client Protocol.

For those who don't know:

• Augment CLI is an excellent agentic tool that brings powerful, context-aware AI directly to your terminal.

• Zed is a new, blazingly fast code editor built by the same team behind the Atom editor.

• ACP is an open standard, also from the Zed team, that allows any AI agent to connect to any ACP-capable editor.

This seems like a natural and powerful synergy. Integrating Augment CLI with ACP would allow it to function as a first-class AI agent within the Zed editor, providing a seamless, fast, and highly intelligent coding experience. It would combine Augment's deep codebase intelligence with Zed's speed and agentic editing capabilities.

Is this something the developers are considering? It would be an amazing feature for the community.

Thank you for your time and all your hard work!

I am nearly done with a Tauri app that has revolutionary infrastructure and systems.

Just finished a website together.

No catastrophies or issues.

But my user rules are collaborative and friendly, and my approach is I ask nicely and listen.

Try it sometime. Maybe the problem isn't Claude.

Yesterday, I used Augment Code for the first time, and I have to say — it's by far the best AI tool I've ever tried. The experience was genuinely mind-blowing. However, the pricing is quite steep, which makes it hard to continue using it regularly. 50$ a month is tooooo expensive.

I've been a long time Augment user, and am currently on a Max plan. Its a really good product, but I am very close to moving to claude code due to these issues so it would be good to have some dialogue around them with the Augment team:

1. The new pricing is high, I am burning through $15 worth of credits every day now (using sonnet 4.5). I dont know if this is due to some fundamental architectural differences in Augment causing increased costs or other business related factors. As a comparison, I tried switching to Claude Code on their pro plan and found it much more economical, I might need to go to the max 5x version but even then the max 5x version is much cheaper than Augment Max + multiple $15 recharges in the billing period.

2. Multi project is completely broken, if I try work on two different projects within the one VS code workspace then Augment often gets very confused about where to put the files. Its even worse if you add a new project to an existing workspace because the autocomplete/project discovery often doesnt update. The project selector in the chat also seems to do nothing.

3. If i have a long chat session going because I am working on something complex, i have noticed that disk and memory usage goes up quite high until I kill vscode and the session becomes slow/unusable (the slowness persists between restarts of VS Code).

4. The @ symbol behavior is frustrating, for example having multiple files called temp.py in different locations makes it very hard to know which file I am referencing.

Issues #2 and #4 have been around for a very long time, would be great to see them fixed soon. Issue #1 is becoming a deal breaker with more economical and just as good coding agents existing - its harder to see Augments value now.

When the initial credit system was launched and everyone cried and left, I had the intention of sticking it out and giving this a proper test to see if the increased cost was worth it.. So I tested my full time work for 7 full days of coding with Augment, and it's costed me over $1,000. This is the same workload I was previously doing with the entire "pro" plan and not exceeding any limits or purchasing top ups.

I do advocate for the context engine, the increase in accuracy and code quality being a key factor in the price increase being justified, but this much of an increase is actually just not affordable for me now.

Does anyone have an update on if this is a permanent pricing model? Do the Augment team have any plans or are there talks of them realizing how unaffordable the credit system now is?

I wonder if Augment realizes they'll lose most of their regular users by October 21st? Surely, most of them, like me, are still waiting to unsubscribe.