What it is
On 8 October 2026 Harness bought select Augment Code assets: the Context Engine, the Cosmos agent platform, the Auggie CLI and the team behind them. Cosmos is being renamed the Harness Cosmos Software Factory Agent. Augment Code Computing Inc. remains a separate legal entity, and neither company has said what happens to existing Augment subscriptions, prepaid usage or the VS Code and JetBrains extensions.
Before the sale, Augment sold a coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains, the Auggie CLI and AI review of GitHub pull requests, all built on the Context Engine, which indexes a whole repository so the agent can find the right files in large, old codebases. Cosmos, launched in June 2026, runs many agents across a team with a shared memory, locally or in the cloud.
Augment's changelog hints at a migration: the IntelliJ plugin gained groundwork for a guided migration experience on 17 August, and VS Code release 0.904.1 on 7 October adjusted new Augment Migration commands. The pricing page still sells Standard and Business plans and does not mention Harness.
Our review
Buying Augment today means paying for a product whose core technology has been sold. Harness took the Context Engine, Cosmos and the Auggie CLI on 8 October 2026, along with the people who built them. Harness says customers can adopt Cosmos, keep their preferred coding tools, or use both, but that is a statement about product choice, not a commitment on Augment contracts, credits or the code indexes Augment holds.
The engineering case was always context. The Context Engine indexes an entire repository up front, which users with large or legacy codebases credited with better file retrieval than agents that search on the fly. Cosmos extended that to teams with shared agent memory, and Augment claimed at launch that it tripled its own engineers' throughput, a figure only the company has reported.
Pricing is a flat team fee with a markup. Standard costs $20 a month and Business $100, each including the same dollar amount of usage shared by up to 50 people. Model calls are billed at the provider's list price plus a flat 40% fee, and top-ups expire 12 months after purchase, which matters more than usual when nobody has said who honours unused balances after the sale. Bring-your-own-key tools such as Cline pass model costs through without any fee.
The security paperwork is reasonable. Paid plans bar AI training on customer data under the commercial terms, SOC 2 Type II is listed on Standard and Business, and ISO 42001, customer-managed keys, SSO and SCIM are Enterprise only. Those assurances were given by Augment; whether they follow the Context Engine, which holds an index of your code, to its new owner is the question a security team should ask before renewal.
Where it earns its place
A platform team at a large company already on Harness CI/CD
Automate ticket-to-pull-request work inside the delivery pipeline they already run
Harness says Cosmos is available now to existing Harness customers and hands finished code to its delivery, security and cost agents. Pricing under a Harness contract is not published; Augment's $100 Business plan is the only public reference point.
An engineering manager with 20 developers on Augment Standard
Decide whether to renew before the next billing cycle
The $20 plan's usage is shared, so heavy agent use moves quickly to top-ups that carry the 40% LLM fee and expire after 12 months. Before buying more, get in writing who honours unused top-ups and who deletes the code index after the Harness sale.
A staff engineer maintaining a ten-year-old monorepo
Get an agent to find the right files without hand-feeding context
The Context Engine indexes the full repository so the agent retrieves relevant files itself, the main reason teams chose Augment. Both the engine and the Auggie CLI now sit with Harness, so their roadmap is Harness's rather than Augment's.
Before you commit
- Setup
- Install the VS Code or JetBrains extension or the Auggie CLI and let the Context Engine index the repository; the IntelliJ plugin now needs JetBrains 2025.2 or newer.
- Integrations
- GitHub pull request review; Cosmos connects GitHub, self-hosted GitLab and Azure DevOps, adds MCP servers, and lets admins restrict which models an organisation can use.
- Data and privacy
- Paid plans bar AI training on customer data; SOC 2 Type II on Standard and Business; ISO 42001, CMEK, SSO, OIDC and SCIM are Enterprise only. Who controls code indexes after the Harness sale is not published.
- Cost at scale
- On Business, a team running $1,000 a month of model calls at list price pays about $1,400 in total after the 40% fee, with the $100 plan fee counting towards it, plus any Cosmos compute.
- Limits
- Standard and Business allow 50 concurrent Cosmos sessions on standard-size compute; top-ups expire 12 months after purchase.
What's good
- Context Engine indexes whole repositories for retrieval in large codebases
- One pooled usage balance for up to 50 seats
- No training on customer data on paid plans; SOC 2 Type II
- Cosmos connects self-hosted GitLab and Azure DevOps
What's not
- Core technology sold to Harness in October 2026
- No public plan for existing subscriptions, top-ups or code indexes
- 40% fee on top of model list prices
- SSO, SCIM and CMEK only on Enterprise
- Changelog shows migration tooling arriving in the IDE extensions
Best for
Teams with very large codebases that value deep code indexing, or Harness customers adopting Cosmos.
Alternatives
Augment Code: common questions
- Is Augment Code worth it?
- Augment's codebase indexing was a genuine advantage, but that engine now belongs to Harness, and a new subscription buys a product whose future neither company has put in writing. We rate it 3.3 out of 5.
- How much does Augment Code cost?
- Standard $20/month flat with $20 of usage; Business $100/month flat with $100 of usage (both up to 50 seats sharing one balance); Enterprise custom with SSO, SCIM and CMEK. Model calls cost provider list price plus a 40% fee; top-ups expire after 12 months.
- What are the downsides of Augment Code?
- Core technology sold to Harness in October 2026; no public plan for existing subscriptions, top-ups or code indexes; 40% fee on top of model list prices; sSO, SCIM and CMEK only on Enterprise; changelog shows migration tooling arriving in the IDE extensions.
- Who is Augment Code best for?
- Teams with very large codebases that value deep code indexing, or Harness customers adopting Cosmos.
- How much does Augment Code cost for a team or in production?
- On Business, a team running $1,000 a month of model calls at list price pays about $1,400 in total after the 40% fee, with the $100 plan fee counting towards it, plus any Cosmos compute.
- Is Augment Code safe for company data?
- Paid plans bar AI training on customer data; SOC 2 Type II on Standard and Business; ISO 42001, CMEK, SSO, OIDC and SCIM are Enterprise only. Who controls code indexes after the Harness sale is not published.
- What are the best Augment Code alternatives?
- The closest alternatives we have reviewed are Cursor, Claude Code, Factory (Droids) and GitHub Copilot.
Answers checked Oct 23, 2026.