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Augment Code

Coding agent with deep codebase context

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Best for

Best for engineering teams in large monorepos where context retrieval is the bottleneck on AI usefulness.

At a glance

Pricing: freemiumfrom $30/mo
Setup time: 15 minutes
Learning curve: medium
Last verified: 5/21/2026

What we love

✓Genuinely better at understanding huge codebases
✓Remote agent execution is differentiated
✓Enterprise-grade security story

Where it falls short

−Free tier limits are tight
−Cold-start indexing takes time on large repos
−Less ecosystem of community extensions than Cursor

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 2026

3 tiers

Free

forever

✓50 messages/mo
✓3,000 completions/mo
✓Context engine on small repos

Developer

$30

per month

✓Unlimited completions
✓Full context engine
✓Agent mode

Enterprise

$60

per user per month

✓SSO
✓Audit
✓EU data residency
✓Self-hosted option

Why we picked it

Augment has positioned itself for the codebases that are too big for Cursor's built-in retrieval. The context engine is real and the chat answers are noticeably more grounded.
— MoreAI.tools editor

Overview

Coding assistant from ex-Microsoft and ex-Google folks, positioned around a context engine — heavy investment in retrieval over your whole codebase so completions and chat have real grounding.

Key features

●Context engine indexes the entire codebase
●VS Code and JetBrains plugins
●Agent mode for multi-file changes
●Inline chat and completions
●Remote agents that run in the background
●SOC 2 and EU data residency
●Self-hosted option for enterprise

Best use cases

Work in a monorepo

Index 5M lines, ask Augment cross-package questions and get grounded answers.

Run a long-horizon refactor

Hand a remote agent a multi-file task and check its progress without keeping the IDE open.

Integrations

VS Code

JetBrains

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Linear

Jira

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