Augment Hikes Price for AI Code Editor, Users Protest
Augment has updated its pricing model for Augment Code, an AI coding assistant, to be based on AI usage rather than message interactions.
The company stated that its existing model "isn't sustainable", but users have calculated that the new model is more than ten times as expensive.
About Augment
Augment was launched in April 2024, co-founded by Igor Ostrovsky, a former Microsoft software engineer, and Guy Gur-Ari, a former Google AI researcher, and backed by venture capital, including an investment from Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO.
Augment Code Features
- AI-powered chat
- Next Edit code suggestions
- Inline code completions
- Agentic AI programming, which can create an app from scratch
- Memories feature that persists context across conversations
- 200K context window, allowing the AI to be better informed about the codebase
The existing model "isn't sustainable"
Author's summary: Augment hikes AI code editor price, sparking user protests.
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