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Augment Code (Auggie CLI, Cosmos)

Name: Augment Code (Auggie CLI, Cosmos)
Price: 20 USD
Author: Augment Computing, Inc.

Augment Code indexes a team's repositories in its cloud Context Engine and uses it to drive coding agents. It ships the Auggie CLI (terminal, CI automation, ACP mode, TypeScript/Python SDKs), VS Code and JetBrains extensions, a Context Engine MCP server and Cosmos, a cloud platform of configurable 'Experts' that take work from ticket to PR to review. Pricing is team-based and usage-metered: Standard $20/month and Business $100/month flat for up to 50 seats, each including that amount of usage. In 2026 the company shifted its focus from the IDE extension to Cosmos and the CLI.

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What reviewers and users praise

Codebase context retrieval repeatedly singled out as best-in-class by users (HN, Dec 2025–May 2026) and reviewers (fast.io, tooliverse)
Enterprise compliance: SOC 2 Type II attested and ISO/IEC 42001 certified, customer-managed keys
Handles large, multi-repo codebases (tooliverse, fast.io)

What they criticise

Repeated pricing changes (per-message to credits in late 2025, then new team plans in 2026) and the removal of inline completions alienated individual users (HN, Reddit, fast.io, tooliverse)
IDE extensions de-emphasised in favour of Cosmos/CLI; users report short notice for withdrawal from self-serve plans (Reddit)
Closed source and cloud-indexed code, unlike BYOK open-source agents
VS Code extension reported as slow and prone to hangs in heavy use (HN)

Rating certificate · AW/26-09/08626 Sept 2026

Not enough evidence

Augment Code (Auggie CLI, Cosmos)

Augment Computing, Inc. · Coding agents

Trust B

Adoption55

Experts—

Crowd—

Experts vs the crowdneeds both scores

Experts—

Crowd—

Price	From $20
Use it via	CLI, IDE extension, Web app, MCP server, API, Chat apps
Runs on	macos, linux, windows, web
Licence	proprietary
Updated	Evidence collected 26 Sept 2026

How the rating was worked out

Weights for Coding agents: adoption 35%, experts 40%, crowd 25%. Fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. The method.

Adoption & momentumweight 35%	55	GitHub stars `281` → 14 · npm weekly downloads `30k` → 40 · VS Code / Open VSX installs `779k` → 51 · `17` releases in 90 days → 100 reach × 0.7 + momentum × 0.3
Expertsindependent reviews · weight 40%	—	Only 1 independent review (3 needed) Benchmarks, shown not scored: SWE-bench Verified No. 22 of 77 (Augment Agent v1 (model undisclosed))
Crowdcommunity sample · weight 25%	—	Community sample from a single platform
Rating	—	Not rated: fewer than two pillars have enough evidence.

Evidence checks. 1 review from tool directories, AI-written pages or unnamed authors not counted. 1 item could not be checked at the source (the page could not be fetched, or the quote is from a comment under the linked post); kept and marked “unverified”. How evidence is checked.

Trust & safety

Seven dimensions graded A–D from documented facts. Overall: B.

Permission model

Auggie CLI and Cosmos enforce toolPermissions rules (allow, deny, webhook-policy, script-policy) per tool call; docs state they are 'not enforced in the Augment code extension'. Cosmos can run in Augment-hosted cloud sandboxes, but local CLI use has no default sandbox; unmatched tools follow implicit runtime behaviour. source

Data access scope

Indexes all workspace files except those matching .gitignore/.augmentignore; broad by default, documented. source

Data storage

Code is stored in Augment's cloud for the Context Engine ('Augment stores your code securely and privately'); documented controls include customer-managed encryption keys (Enterprise), proof-of-possession API and data residency options. Cosmos also supports self-hosted daemons. source

Data retention & training

'We never train on our customer's proprietary code' and every plan lists 'No AI training allowed'. No stated retention period found. source

Incident history (24 months)

No published GitHub security advisories on augmentcode/auggie and no security incidents found in searches (checked 2026-09-26). Changelog notes routine dependency upgrades to remediate CVEs. Pricing/product-withdrawal controversies are not security incidents. source

Compliance

Security page lists 'SOC 2 TYPE II Attested' and 'ISO/IEC 42001 Certified', plus GDPR/CCPA/HIPAA (BAA available); trust center linked. source

Transparency

Closed source (Auggie CLI under a custom proprietary licence) with a detailed public changelog and docs. source

The experts

1 named independent reviews found; dated reviews from the last 12 months are scored.

mixed
No inline completions. The March 2026 sunset removed the feature most developers use dozens of times per day.Derek Labian (fast.io) · 28 Jun 2026 · fast.io

The crowd

9 coded posts from hackernews.

4 positive2 mixed3 negative

mixed
We used to use Augment Code at work which has a thing called Context EngineShow HN: Semble – Code search for agents · 18 May 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
positive
I opened my Obsidian directory with Augment Code, and it indexed it in seconds.Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated? · 7 May 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
positive
Augment Code (not very well known but best in class for a long time, hilariously poor at marketing/sales completely bungling this advantage)Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI · 17 Apr 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
mixed
I'm using `auggie` which is their CLI-based agentic tool. (They also have a VS Code integration - that became too slow and hung often the more I used it.)Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally? · 15 Mar 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
negative
I expected to upgrade to a Claude Code Max plan after leaving Augment Code, but given how good Antigravity is now for its low cost, I've switched to itHow Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI · 8 Jan 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
positive
It works far better than painstakingly stuffing your own context manually or having your agent use grep/lsp/etc to try and find what it needs.Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases · 22 Dec 2025 · news.ycombinator.com
positive
From my experience, Augment ( https://augmentcode.com ) is best in class for AI code context.Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) · 8 Dec 2025 · news.ycombinator.com
negative
Augment code has recently switched to a per-token instead of per-message pricing model. This hasn't gone down particularly wellDevelopers are choosing older AI models · 5 Nov 2025 · news.ycombinator.com

Pricing

As published, checked 26 Sept 2026.

Plan	Price	Notes
Standard	$20 / monthly	Flat per team, up to 50 seats, $20/month of usage across LLM, Context Engine and compute included; Cosmos, CLI access, top-ups pay as you go.
Business	$100 / monthly	Flat per team, up to 50 seats, $100/month of usage included.
Enterprise	Custom	Custom; unlimited users, CMEK, ISO 42001, multi-region compute, dedicated support.

Recent changes

31 Mar 2026
Inline completions and Next Edit removed from non-enterprise plans (per Bodega One and fast.io reporting). source
5 May 2026
Cosmos launched in public preview as a platform for coordinating coding agents with shared memory and context (Tessl news report). source
22 Jun 2026
Users report emails announcing the sunset of the VS Code/JetBrains extensions on self-serve plans with about a month's notice (Reddit; Kilo blog). Pricing page now lists Cosmos and CLI access, not the IDE extensions, for Standard/Business. source
14 Aug 2026
Blog post on rebuilding the Auggie CLI harness, claiming tasks 53% cheaper than Claude Code (vendor claim). source
14 Sept 2026
VS Code extension 0.901.1 and IntelliJ plugin 0.491.0 released. source

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Sources

Every figure above traces to one of these, observed up to 26 Sept 2026.