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Augment Code
An AI coding assistant built around indexing very large codebases.
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why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
Anthropic's version covers the headline feature only, so the $50/mo is now paying for the workflow around it, not the AI.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Million-token context windows eroded the retrieval advantage. Anthropic, August 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 3 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth $600/yr
- $50/mo at the entry paid tier — $600 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked missing: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- August 1, 2025
- List price
- $50/mo
- Per year
- $600
The backstory
Augment's differentiator was a context engine that could reason across huge monorepos when models had small windows. As frontier context grew and agents learned to search repos themselves, that advantage narrowed, and it now competes on enterprise controls rather than on being the only thing that fits your codebase.
