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Augment Code true cost: the 36-month total
Augment Code costs $7,200 over 36 months on Indie at 10 developers, billed annually, before 5 cost lines that sit outside the plan price.
What Augment Code costs over 36 months
Every figure below is Augment Code's own published rate, annualised and multiplied out over 36 months at 10 developers. Where Augment Code publishes no rate, the row says so instead of guessing.
The same plan at four team sizes
Augment Code charges per developer, so the 36-month figure scales linearly with headcount. These are Indie totals, on annual billing, with no fees added.
Renewal sensitivity: three scenarios, not a forecast
Nobody knows what Augment Code charges in 2029. The table below is arithmetic on a rate you choose, not a prediction: it compounds the year-one total forward at 0%, 5% and 10% so you can see how much of the 36-month figure is exposed to a renewal you have not negotiated yet.
Scenario arithmetic on Augment Code's own published year-one figure. Uplift rates are illustrative inputs, not observed or predicted rates.
What sits outside the Augment Code list price
5 lines, sorted by when in the contract lifecycle they land. Lines marked as derived are arithmetic on Augment Code's own tier table rather than vendor prose.
Each line, what triggers it, and how to avoid it
Usage and overage
Stated on the pricing page: Auto top-ups at $15 per 24K credits trigger when allowance empties.
What triggers it. Fires when consumption crosses the included limit. This is the line that decouples your Augment Code bill from your headcount, and it can grow while your team does not.
How to avoid it. Negotiate committed-volume pricing if consumption is predictable at all. Over 36 months, a pre-committed rate beats list overage by a wide margin.
Unpublished pricing
Stated on the pricing page: Annual pricing not advertised, monthly billing only.
What triggers it. Triggered by nothing you do. This is simply a number Augment Code does not publish. Every unpublished component is a hole in the $7,200 figure, which is built only from rates the vendor states.
How to avoid it. Treat the unpublished element as a risk line in the business case with an explicit assumed value. A named assumption can be challenged; a gap cannot.
Usage and overage
Stated on the pricing page: Credits consumed unevenly by complex agent tasks.
What triggers it. Triggered by volume, which nobody forecasts well. The Indie plan includes an allowance; everything past it is priced separately and does not appear anywhere in the $7,200 subscription total.
How to avoid it. Instrument your real consumption during the trial and size the plan to the ninetieth-percentile month, not the average one. Overages priced at list are always worse than the tier that would have included them.
Feature gated to a higher tier
Derived from the published tiers: Moving from Indie to Max costs a further $64,800 over 36 months at 10 developers, which is 10.0x the entry total.
What triggers it. Triggered by needing one feature, not by growing. This is the mechanism that moves teams off Indie: a single requirement that only exists further up the ladder, at a rate that applies to every unit you buy.
How to avoid it. Test the gated feature during evaluation rather than trusting the comparison table. Capability names travel further than capabilities do.
Seat expansion
Derived from the published tiers: Five more developers on Indie add $3,600 across 36 months, on top of the $7,200 above.
What triggers it. Triggered by hiring. Every figure above is priced at 10 developers; this line is what each unit past that costs, and it compounds for the remainder of the term rather than the remainder of the month.
How to avoid it. Price your year-three headcount now, not today's. Negotiating the $7,200 commitment at the size you expect to be is how you avoid buying seats twice.
How that compares across developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling
The median developer platforms, hosting, and dev tooling tool we track charges $20 a month at its cheapest paid tier. Re-expressed on the same basis as the figure above, 10 developers for 36 months, that median works out at $7,200.
Augment Code lands $0 below that figure, 0.0%, measured across 61 tracked tools. A gap either way is a question, not a verdict: cheaper often means fewer included seats or a thinner support tier, and the fee lines below are where that difference usually reappears.
What changes at enterprise scale
Everything above prices the self-serve ladder. Enterprise sits off that ladder, which means the $7,200 figure is a floor for a large deployment rather than an estimate of one.
Enterprise adds custom credit allocation, unlimited users, SSO/OIDC/SCIM, CMEK and volume discounts via sales contract.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Augment Code cost over three years?
$7,200 on Indie at 10 developers, billed annually, which is $200 a month held flat for 36 months. That figure covers the subscription only.
Does paying Augment Code annually save money?
Augment Code publishes the same effective rate either way on Indie, so there is no prepay discount to capture. Keep the monthly option unless the vendor offers something for the commitment.
What does Augment Code charge for outside the plan price?
5 lines: usage and overage, unpublished pricing, usage and overage, feature gated to a higher tier and 1 more. Each one is broken down above with what triggers it and how to avoid it.
Could Augment Code cost more at renewal?
Possibly, and nothing on this page predicts it. If the rate held flat the three-year total would be $7,200; at a hypothetical 10% a year it would be $7,944. Cap the uplift in the contract and the question stops mattering.
What does Augment Code cost for a team of 25?
$18,000 over 36 months on Indie, billed annually. Augment Code charges per developer, so that scales directly with headcount.
Price Augment Code on your own numbers
This page holds the term axis. The pricing breakdown holds the seat axis: every tier, the per-seat calculator, and the same fee list against the monthly figure.
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Sources and method
- List rates and fee disclosures: Augment Code official pricing page, verified 17 May 2026.
- 36-month totals: the published annual-equivalent rate multiplied by 36, at 10 developers. No inflation, no discount, no fee estimates included.
- Renewal rows: scenario arithmetic on rates stated in the table. They are inputs, not observations.
- Category median: the cheapest paid monthly tier of every tool we track in the same category, re-expressed over 36 months.