Key Terms
- Cosmos - Augment's platform for AI-native engineering teams: cloud environments, Experts, Automations, workers, and the Context Engine. Source: Augmentcode – Cosmos The Platform For Ai Native Engineering Teams
- Auggie CLI - Augment's terminal agent; version 0.36.0 added a reasoning-effort flag (Aug 21). Source: Augmentcode – Auggie Cli 0 36 0 Release Notes
- Cost Analytics - Cosmos's cost dashboard: CSV exports, flexible filters, secondary breakdowns, per-session cost calculation, and session tags (Enterprise). Sources: Augmentcode – Cosmos Week 32 Release Notes , Augmentcode – Cosmos Week 30 Release Notes
- Token-based billing - Augment bills per model at per-token rates plus a flat 40% service fee on LLM usage; Cosmos compute is $0.19/hour, fee-free. Source: Augmentcode – Credit Based Pricing
- FDE-as-product - Augment's positioning (Aug 28 essay) that forward-deployed-engineer workflows should be built into the product. Source: Augmentcode – We Think The Fde Should Be Part Of The Product So We Built One In
Latest Changes
Changes since the 2026-07 report.
July watch items verified:
- Sonnet 5 addition: still-pending. No model-table updates were published in August (the changelog's Models filter shows no August entries); the newest Sonnet remains 4.6. Sources: Augmentcode – Changelog , Augmentcode – Credit Based Pricing
- Individual tier restoration: failed (second consecutive month). Pricing remains Business ($100/month, up to 50 seats) and Enterprise only. Source: Augmentcode – Pricing
- 40% service fee: unchanged. No pricing announcements in August. Source: Augmentcode – Credit Based Pricing
New August changes:
- Cost claim (Aug 14): "How we rebuilt the Auggie CLI harness to make tasks 53% cheaper than Claude Code" documents a harness rebuild with a direct cost-per-task comparison against Claude Code. Source: Augmentcode – Auggie Cli Harness Rebuild 53 Percent Cheaper
- Feature added (Aug 13): Cosmos Settings > Connectors unifies all integrations and MCP servers in one hub with error visibility and custom MCP onboarding. Source: Augmentcode – Cosmos Week 33 Release Notes
- Feature added (Aug 5): Configurable session tabs; ClickUp and Snowflake connectors; Automations overview/history pages; Cost Analytics CSV export and per-session cost calculation; isolated workspaces for daemon pools and Expert sessions; file version restore. Source: Augmentcode – Cosmos Week 32 Release Notes
- CLI updates: Auggie CLI 0.35.0 (daemon pool bundles, async environment rebuilds, restricted-permission auth tokens, Aug 13) and 0.36.0 (reasoning-effort flag, security patches, VFS sync fixes, Aug 21). VS Code extension 0.893.1 fixed Context Usage double-counting MCP tool definitions (Aug 10). Sources: Augmentcode – Auggie Cli 0 35 0 Release Notes , Augmentcode – Auggie Cli 0 36 0 Release Notes
- Editorial: FDE-as-product essay (Aug 28); a two-person team handling 6x product feedback with Cosmos (Aug 27); PR-to-merge loop optimization (Aug 13). Sources: Augmentcode – We Think The Fde Should Be Part Of The Product So We Built One In , Augmentcode – Feedback Triage With Cosmos
Plans
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Business | $100/month, up to 50 seats | Per-token model pricing + 40% service fee; Cosmos compute $0.19/hour |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom models, admin controls, Cost Analytics |
No individual/free tier; unchanged since June. Source: Augmentcode – Pricing
API Pricing
Model rates (carried over, unchanged in August): Claude Fable 5 $10/$50, Claude Opus 5 and Opus 4.8 $5/$25, GPT-5.6 Sol $5/$30, Terra $2.50/$15, Luna $1/$6, GLM 5.2 $1.40/$4.40, Kimi K3 $3/$15 per MTok, all plus the flat 40% service fee. Sonnet 5 ($2/$10 at Anthropic) is still absent from the table. Source: Augmentcode – Credit Based Pricing
Model Performance / Benchmarks
Augment published no model benchmarks in August. The Auggie CLI harness rebuild post claims tasks cost 53% less than Claude Code at equivalent pass rates on Augment's internal evals (methodology in the post). Source: Augmentcode – Auggie Cli Harness Rebuild 53 Percent Cheaper
Latest News
The 53% Harness Claim (August 14, 2026)
Augment's engineering post details a rebuild of the Auggie CLI harness (prompting, context handling, tool orchestration) yielding 53% lower cost per task than Claude Code on their internal evaluation suite. It is the most explicit harness-level cost comparison published by any tracked supplier this month. Source: Augmentcode – Auggie Cli Harness Rebuild 53 Percent Cheaper
Cosmos Consolidates Integrations (August 2026)
Weeks 32-33 brought a unified Connectors hub, ClickUp/Snowflake support, automations dashboards, and maturing Cost Analytics (CSV export, per-session costs, tag filtering). Source: Augmentcode – Cosmos Week 33 Release Notes
Community Signals
No significant HN or Reddit threads on Augment were found in August. The company's own content (FDE-as-product essay; customer story of a two-person team absorbing 6x feedback volume) is the primary public signal. Sources: Augmentcode – We Think The Fde Should Be Part Of The Product So We Built One In , Augmentcode – Feedback Triage With Cosmos
Enterprise Readiness
| Feature | Available? | Details |
|---|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Yes | Enterprise. Source: Augmentcode – Pricing |
| SSO (OIDC) | Partial | Hosted MCP OAuth flows documented; OIDC SSO not itemized. Source: Augmentcode – Auggie Cli 0 35 0 Release Notes |
| SCIM | No | Not documented. |
| Audit logs | Partial | Cost Analytics, session tags, workspace activity; formal audit-log export not documented. |
| IP indemnity | No | Not mentioned. |
| Data residency | No | Not documented. |
| HIPAA | No | Not mentioned. |
| Air-gapped / on-prem | No | Cloud-first (Cosmos); self-hosted agents not offered. |
| SLA | Yes | SLA and Support Policy published. Source: Augmentcode – Sla And Support Policy |
| Admin controls (RBAC) | Yes | Space/role access controls, organization-level MCP access controls, sensitive-path approval requirements, secret write-only handling. Sources: Augmentcode – Cosmos Week 32 Release Notes , Augmentcode – Auggie Cli 0 34 0 Release Notes |
Transparency Gaps
| Gap | Details | Severity |
|---|---|---|
| 40% service fee | The flat fee on all LLM usage remains unique among tracked suppliers and is not itemized per invoice. | High |
| Individual tier absence | No plan below $100/month for the third consecutive month, pricing out solo developers. | Medium |
| 53% claim methodology | The Claude Code comparison uses Augment's internal evals and cost accounting; no third-party replication exists. | Medium |
| Model table lag | Sonnet 5 missing two months after launch; no published SLA for adding new models. | Medium |