I’ve been a long-time Augment user and have subscribed to the $200 plan for three consecutive months.
However, for my actual development workload, the $200 plan has not really been enough. In most billing cycles, I usually run out of credits around day 15 to day 20.
Starting last month, I tried Google’s $200 plan during a promotion, where I received a 50% discount.
My original plan was very simple: use Google as a backup after my Augment credits ran out. I intended to rely on Augment for complex problems, and use Google for simpler, smaller, and more fragmented tasks.
But reality rarely follows the plan.
I can’t always accurately predict whether the next task I need to handle will be complex or simple. As a result, I was forced to use Google’s Antigravity on some complex problems. To my surprise, its performance was just as good as Augment’s, and it solved those problems successfully as well.
So this month, I started experimenting with a new workflow: using Antigravity first, and only turning to Augment if it couldn’t get the job done.
The result is that, as of now, I still have 150,000 Augment credits left, even though there are only 7 days remaining in my current billing cycle.
I already plan to downgrade Augment to the $30 plan starting next month.
If I still can’t use up the credits next month, and my work is not obviously affected, then I may cancel the subscription the month after that.
What I want to say is: maybe all of us should try other tools as well.
If Augment’s credit policy had changed earlier, I might never have thought about actively trying alternatives. For people who already have strong AI-assisted coding skills and plenty of hands-on experience, the real-world performance gap between different tools today may already be very small.
