Augment Code vs GitHub Copilot (2026)

Augment Code

by Augment

GitHub Copilot

by GitHub (Microsoft)

Pros

• ✓Standard ($20) and Business ($100) are flat monthly prices for up to 50 seats, with the included usage pooled across the whole team and no per-seat charge.
• ✓The Context Engine indexes entire repositories, or several at once, and is also sold as Context Engine MCP for other agents such as Claude Code and Cursor.
• ✓Cosmos starts agent work from GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Linear and Jira events, schedules and webhooks, and carries it through to a reviewed pull request.

Limitations

• –LLM usage is billed at the provider list price plus a flat 40% service fee, and usage beyond the included amount is bought as top-ups.
• –SSO with OIDC and SCIM, CMEK, ISO 42001, SIEM integration and data residency options are on the custom-priced Enterprise plan only.
• –Harness acquired Cosmos, the Auggie CLI and the Context Engine on 8 October 2026, and Augment had not yet said how existing plans will change.

Pros

• ✓Available as a plugin across VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Xcode, Eclipse, Visual Studio, Raycast, Zed and SQL Server Management Studio, so teams keep their existing editor.
• ✓Free tier with 2,000 completions a month and no credit card, plus a free plan for eligible students, so the product can be trialed before any spend.
• ✓GitHub publishes an official open-source MCP server, hosted remotely or run locally, so Copilot both consumes external tools and exposes GitHub context to other AI clients.

Limitations

• –AI Credit metering means agent mode, code review and chat draw down a dollar-denominated allowance, and GitHub states the flex portion of that allowance may change over time, so the effective monthly budget is not fixed.
• –IP indemnity on Business and Enterprise covers unmodified outputs only, and qualifying requires either setting the public code filter to Block or complying with any licenses that code referencing cites, so the protection depends on configuration and follow-through by the customer.
• –Organization controls, pooled credits, usage metrics and SAML SSO require Business at $19 per user per month or above.