Key findings
- May 7, 2025: plans billed by user message, with a US$50 Developer plan of 600 messages and a US$30 rate kept for early customers.
- October 20, 2025: credits replaced messages, with Indie at US$20, Standard at US$60, and Max at US$200 per month. Augment said the change would raise costs for some users.
- March 31, 2026: Completions and Next Edit ended for non-Enterprise plans.
- June 2026: dollar billing replaced credits, on a US$100 Business plan that bills model tokens at list price plus a 40% service fee. Augment's pricing docs described it by June 12.
- September 2026: a US$20 Standard plan appeared next to Business, between the archived copies of September 2 and September 14. Both are flat for up to 50 seats.
- October 8, 2026: Harness acquired select Augment Code assets, including Auggie CLI, Cosmos, and the Context Engine, and the team behind them joined Harness.
Get Augment's prices, its service fee, and the future of its IDE extensions in writing before you commit. Augment changed how it charges three times in 13 months, and Harness, which now owns Auggie CLI, has said nothing about existing contracts.
How billing changed
In May 2025 Augment moved to user messages. It counted each successfully processed message to the agent or chat, and pooled messages at the team level. In October 2025 it moved to credits. Augment explained that one Max-plan user cost it close to US$15,000 a month and that equal pricing for unequal tasks was unfair and unsustainable. Existing customers migrated between October 21 and 31, 2025, with a month of bonus credits.
Augment switched from credits to dollars in early June 2026 without a blog post or changelog entry. GILD checked both on October 25, 2026. An Internet Archive copy of the pricing page still shows credit plans on June 4. Augment's token-based pricing docs, archived June 12, already describe the US$100 Business plan, and the pricing page shows it on June 17. Usage now bills model tokens at the provider's public API list price, adds the service fee on that spend. It charges Cosmos compute at US$0.19 per hour in 5-minute increments, all from one pooled balance. If you held a credit plan, ask your account team for the effective date of your switch. The US$20 Standard plan followed in September 2026.
Features retired and rebuilt
On March 5, 2026 Augment announced that Next Edit and Completions would end on March 31 for Indie, Standard, Max, and Legacy plans, citing declining use as developers move to agents. Enterprise plans keep both, and Augment's completions docs still say so on October 25, 2026.
In August 2026 Augment described rebuilding Auggie CLI on a fork of Pi, an open-source terminal coding agent. It reported that on SWE-bench Pro the new version completes a task for US$1.27 where Claude Code spends US$2.70 at the same pass rate. Cosmos agents received the new version first. Augment planned the CLI rollout for September and October 2026, when the earlier version is deprecated.
The Harness acquisition
Harness's CEO announced on October 8, 2026 that Harness acquired select Augment Code assets, including Cosmos, the Auggie CLI, the Code Context Engine, and related technology. Cosmos becomes the Harness Cosmos Software Factory Agent. Augment's CEO wrote the same day that the team behind these products is moving to Harness.
Harness's blog post, its press release, and Augment's own post say nothing about existing contracts, the Standard and Business plans, or the Augment IDE extensions, which still shipped releases in October 2026. Harness says customers can adopt its agent, keep their preferred coding tools, or use both.
- Ask which entity holds your contract and processes your data, and from when.
- Ask whether plan prices, the service fee, and included usage hold through your renewal.
- Ask for the support and release commitment for the IDE extensions and Auggie CLI.
Methodology
GILD read Augment Code's pricing announcements, changelog, pricing page, and documentation, Harness's acquisition announcement, and Augment's benchmark posts on October 12, 2026. It rechecked the blog, changelog, docs, and Harness press release on October 25, 2026. GILD compares each change with the public accounts in its Auggie user research. Augment published no announcement for the June 2026 move to dollar billing or the September 2026 Standard plan. GILD therefore dates both from Internet Archive copies of the pricing page and the pricing docs. Every benchmark figure is Augment's own, linked in Sources.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Official documentation
- 12
- Public source
- 10
- Augment blog: New, simpler pricing with user messages (May 7, 2025)
- Augment blog: Augment Code's pricing is changing on October 20, 2025 (Oct 6, 2025)
- Augment blog: Our new credit-based plans are now live (Oct 21, 2025)
- Augment Code pricing
- Augment docs: Token-based pricing
- Augment changelog: Planned March 31 sunset for Next Edit and Completions (Mar 5, 2026)
- Augment changelog: Auggie launch (Jul 31, 2025)
- Augment blog: Rebuilding the Auggie CLI harness (Aug 14, 2026)
- Augment Code changelog
- Augment blog: Augment Code's next chapter (Oct 8, 2026)
- Harness blog: Harness acquires Augment Code (Oct 8, 2026)
- Augment Code pricing page as archived on Jun 4, 2026: Indie, Standard, and Max credit plans
- Augment Code pricing page as archived on Jun 17, 2026: Business at US$100 with usage at list price
- Augment Code pricing page as archived on Sep 2, 2026: Business plan only
- Augment Code pricing page as archived on Sep 14, 2026: Standard at US$20 added
- Hacker News: the move to token-based pricing (Nov 5, 2025)
- Hacker News: a user who felt rugpulled after the repricing (Nov 3, 2025)
- Hacker News: leaving Augment Code after its new pricing (Jan 8, 2026)
- Codewello: five VS Code assistants compared (Oct 27, 2025)
- Augment docs: Token-based pricing as archived on Jun 12, 2026: Business plan at US$100 with a 40% service fee
- Augment docs: Completions (Markdown source, Enterprise support note)
- PR Newswire: Harness Acquires Augment Code, Advancing the Autonomous SDLC from Idea to Production (Harness, Oct 8, 2026)