AI Tool Comparison
Comparing as AI Code Generation & AutocompleteRefact.ai vs Augment Code

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Augment Code
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Pricing
FreemiumRefact.ai is free to start with 2,000 agent/chat coins per month — no credit card required. This covers basic AI Agent and chat usage with access to the platform's full feature set within the monthly quota.
Pro costs $10/month (or $8/month billed annually) and provides a higher coin allocation for developers who use the AI Agent and chat heavily on a daily basis.
Enterprise pricing is custom and covers three deployment models: self-hosted on your own GPU infrastructure (any hardware you own or rent), AWS-managed (including AWS Inferentia2 for 1.5x price-performance), and VPC/cloud-managed SaaS. Enterprise adds dedicated engineer support, fine-tuning on your private codebase, code access restriction controls, team management dashboard, and SLA guarantees. Contact hello@refact.ai for enterprise pricing.
PaidAugment Code uses a usage-based pricing model with two tiers. The Business plan costs $100/month flat for up to 50 seats. This includes $100 of pooled monthly usage across LLM inference (billed at provider list price + 40% service fee), Context Engine API calls, and Cosmos compute. Usage is shared across the whole team. Top-ups are available pay-as-you-go at any time; top-ups expire 12 months after purchase.
The Enterprise plan has custom pricing for teams over 50 seats. It adds custom usage limits and top-up rates, volume-based annual discounts, SSO/OIDC/SCIM, Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK), ISO/IEC 42001 compliance, SIEM integration, data residency options, granular audit trails, multi-region compute, unlimited concurrent sessions, and a dedicated customer success manager with priority support.
All paid plans include a guarantee of no AI training on customer data. A 7-day free trial is available. Previously Augment charged $60/active user/month under a named-seat model before switching to flat/usage-based pricing in October 2025.
Categories
AI Coding AssistantsAI Productivity ToolsAI Developer APIs & Platforms
AI Coding AssistantsAI Productivity ToolsAI Developer APIs & Platforms
Summary
Open-source AI coding agent — self-hosted, fine-tuned on your codebase, #1 SWE-bench
AI coding agent with deep Context Engine for large enterprise codebases
Refact.ai Pros & Cons
Pros
- #1 on SWE-bench Lite for open-source AI coding agents — independently validated autonomous task completion performance
- Self-hosted on any hardware including AWS Inferentia2 — first AI coding assistant on Inferentia2 with 1.5x price-performance vs GPU
- Fine-tuning on private codebase delivers ~45% code acceptance rate — significantly higher than generic completions
- Open source with full transparency — audit the model, the agent code, and the inference pipeline
- Supports both open-source LLMs (Code Llama, DeepSeek, Llama) and closed-source models (GPT-4, Claude) in self-hosted mode
- Free plan with 2,000 coins/month and no credit card — genuinely usable for individual developers and evaluation
Cons
- Smaller community and brand recognition than GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Codeium
- Self-hosted deployment requires GPU hardware and technical infrastructure setup — not trivial for smaller teams
- Agent mode still maturing compared to more established alternatives like Cursor or Cline
- Cloud-hosted tier is newer and has fewer enterprise features than established alternatives like Tabnine or Augment Code
- Visual Studio extension is in beta — not as polished as the VS Code and JetBrains plugins
- Fine-tuning pipeline requires dedicated setup and data preparation — significant upfront investment for enterprise customization
Augment Code Pros & Cons
Pros
- Deepest codebase context of any AI coding tool — Context Engine indexes 400K+ files with semantic graphs, not just open tabs
- #1 on SWE-bench Pro at 51.80% (Auggie CLI) — top publicly benchmarked coding agent score at publication
- First and only AI coding assistant with ISO/IEC 42001 certification alongside SOC 2 Type II and CMEK
- Usage-based flat pricing ($100/mo for up to 50 seats) is more predictable than per-seat models for variable teams
- Cosmos platform covers the full SDLC — from ticket to PR, code review, tests, incidents, migrations, and onboarding
- Trusted by Adobe, MongoDB, Webflow, Snyk, Pure Storage, Crypto.com, Tekion, and DXC across enterprise codebases
Cons
- No free individual tier — Business plan starts at $100/month with a team minimum; sole developers pay full price for low usage
- Pricing changed three times in 18 months (2023–2025), causing some developer community backlash and unpredictability concerns
- IDE support limited to VS Code and JetBrains — no standalone IDE, no Neovim full feature parity, no Visual Studio
- Closed-source with no self-hosting option — all computation runs on Augment's infrastructure or Enterprise cloud tenants
- Context Engine first-run indexing takes 15–30 minutes on large repos before initial suggestions become fully accurate
- Enterprise plan requires sales contact for pricing — no public list price above the Business tier