Amp

What is Amp?

Agent and dev environment for the terminal, Mac and phones, with a cloud machine for each thread.

Who is Amp best for?

Amp is best for developers who hand long coding jobs to agents and check on them from a laptop or phone.

• Long jobs that run overnight

  Each thread gets its own cloud machine, so the agent keeps working, and can wake itself on a schedule, after you close your laptop.

• Checking work from a phone

  The macOS, iOS and Android apps let you follow threads, dictate prompts and share into Amp from other apps.

• Developers with model plans

  It works with your ChatGPT or Claude subscription or your own API keys, with no Amp token fees.

How much does Amp cost?

Amp's Hobby tier is free when you bring your own model subscription or API key, Megawatt costs $20 a month with 45,000 orb minutes and Amp credits, and Gigawatt costs $200 a month.

An orb is a cloud machine Amp starts for a thread; it is billed by the minute and pauses when idle, from $0.08 an hour for the smallest size. Your own subscription or key carries no Amp token fees. A team workspace costs nothing extra and each member picks a tier; SSO needs at least one paid member. Enterprise is custom priced with pooled credits. Students and teachers get Megawatt for $10 a month. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on ampcode.com. We checked these prices on 8 Nov 2026.

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What are the best Amp alternatives?

Four tools on Recaply do Amp's job. Grok Build and OpenCode are open source, so you can run them on your own server.

Grok BuildOpen Source

Choose it when you want a terminal coding agent whose source you can read and build yourself under Apache 2.0.

Claude CodePaid

Anthropic's coding agent in the terminal, IDE and cloud.

CodexFree

OpenAI's coding agent that edits repos, runs tools and opens PRs.

OpenCodeOpen Source

Open source AI coding agent for the terminal, desktop and IDE that works with any model.

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