Amp
Coding agent and dev environment built for the frontier
A coding agent whose agents run in orbs — cloud environments that keep working after the laptop closes — and can be picked up from the web, a terminal, a desktop app, or a phone. Teams can share runners and portals.Editorial
ampcode.com
ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing: Hobby "Free" — "Pay-as-you-go for orbs Or use your own runners for free", "Bring your own keys (BYOK)".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com: "Agents in orbs keep working after you close your laptop … pick them up from the web, your terminal, or your phone." The docs cover Desktop, CLI, and macOS & iOS clients.
https://ampcode.com ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing, Teams: "SAML/OIDC SSO".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing: Individual "$20/mo." ("Get Megawatt"); Teams "No extra charge"; Enterprise "Custom".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗Pricing
Full pricing & history →| Plan | Price | Billing | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $0/mo | Monthly | ampcode.comObservedHigh confidenceVerified 2 Oct 2026 Amp — official pricing page ampcode.com/pricing: Hobby "Free". https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ |
| Individual — MegawattEntry | $20/mo | Monthly | ampcode.comObservedHigh confidenceVerified 2 Oct 2026 Amp — official pricing page ampcode.com/pricing: Individual "$20/mo." with "Get Megawatt". https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ |
| Individual — Megawatt | 18 Jul 2026 | $20 | Archived capture |
| Individual — Megawatt | 2 Oct 2026 | $20 | Observed |
Steps hold a price until the next observation. Hollow points were read from archived captures of Amp’s own pricing page. All pricing changes →
10 logged changes over 387 days, verified 6 days ago.
- 3 verified changes · 30d
- 5 active days · 90d
- 3 kinds of change: pricing & plans, releases, availability & platforms
- 1 pricing or plan event · 90d
- Latest change 10 days ago
- Recent active days · weight 70
- 58.3 / 70
- Kinds of change · weight 30
- 17.4 / 30
- 30 Oct 202633
- 31 Oct 202632
- 1 Nov 202682
- 2 Nov 202680
- 3 Nov 202679
- 4 Nov 202678
- 5 Nov 202677
- 6 Nov 202676
Recorded daily since 11 Oct 2026; earlier values are never reconstructed.
- Platform
Amp's mobile app, previously on iOS and macOS, becomes available on Android, with threads, portals and changes views.
ampcode.com
- Platform
Amp orbs can run on self-hosted infrastructure
Teams can run an orb provider inside their own infrastructure (Docker, E2B, Kubernetes and others) so Amp spawns, pauses and deletes orbs on compute they control.
ampcode.com
- Release
Amp becomes an agent in Linear
Assigning or mentioning Amp on a Linear issue starts a Linear Agent Session and spawns an orb; the session also appears in Amp's sidebar.
ampcode.com
- Release
Amp runners can be shared with a whole workspace
Start a runner with --share and everyone in the workspace can start threads on that machine from ampcode.com.
ampcode.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 24 Sept 2026Amp — Chronicle (product news)https://ampcode.com/news/shared-runners ↗ - Plans
Amp adds a free Hobby tier for bring-your-own compute and models
Amp becomes free to use with your own compute and model subscriptions or keys, introducing a free Hobby tier and removing BYOK token fees outside Enterprise; it charges for remote orbs.
ampcode.com
- Recent changes
- 3 verified changes in the last 30 days · 0 in 7 · 5 in 90. Latest 27 Oct 2026 (10 days ago).
- 7d (evidence for recent changes)30d (evidence for recent changes)90d (evidence for recent changes)Latest (evidence for recent changes)
- vs segment · 30d
- More than the Background agents median of 1 per tool.
- Amp (evidence for vs segment · 30d)Background agents (evidence for vs segment · 30d)
- Kinds · 90 days
- Pricing & plans 1 · Releases 2 · Availability & platforms 2
- Last 90 days (evidence for kinds · 90 days)
- List price
- No list-price movement observed across 2 verified plans.
- Pricing history (evidence for list price)
- Platform
Amp's mobile app, previously on iOS and macOS, becomes available on Android, with threads, portals and changes views.
ampcode.com
- Platform
Amp orbs can run on self-hosted infrastructure
Teams can run an orb provider inside their own infrastructure (Docker, E2B, Kubernetes and others) so Amp spawns, pauses and deletes orbs on compute they control.
ampcode.com
- Release
Amp becomes an agent in Linear
Assigning or mentioning Amp on a Linear issue starts a Linear Agent Session and spawns an orb; the session also appears in Amp's sidebar.
ampcode.com
- Release
Amp runners can be shared with a whole workspace
Start a runner with --share and everyone in the workspace can start threads on that machine from ampcode.com.
ampcode.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 24 Sept 2026Amp — Chronicle (product news)https://ampcode.com/news/shared-runners ↗ - Plans
Amp adds a free Hobby tier for bring-your-own compute and models
Amp becomes free to use with your own compute and model subscriptions or keys, introducing a free Hobby tier and removing BYOK token fees outside Enterprise; it charges for remote orbs.
ampcode.com
- Pricing
Amp launches monthly subscriptions in beta
Amp introduces monthly subscriptions in beta alongside its existing pay-as-you-go token pricing, with included usage of its remote 'orbs' compute.
ampcode.com
- Plans
Amp removes ads from Amp Free and pauses free grants for some users
Amp stops showing ads in Amp Free; most users keep the daily free grant without ads, while it is paused for some less-active users.
ampcode.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 30 Mar 2026Amp — newshttps://ampcode.com/news/amp-free-is-ad-free ↗ - Plans
Amp offers up to $10/day in ad-supported free credits for all modes
Every Amp user can receive ad-supported free credits replenishing hourly, up to $10 per day, usable with the full smart agent.
ampcode.com
- Ownership
Amp spins out of Sourcegraph as Amp Frontier Corporation
Amp becomes a separate company, spinning out of Sourcegraph as an independent research lab.
ampcode.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 2 Dec 2025Amp — newshttps://ampcode.com/news/amp-frontier-corporation ↗ - Plans
Amp launches Amp Free, an ad-supported free mode
Amp adds a free mode funded by advertising from developer and infrastructure companies, using a mix of open-source and frontier models.
ampcode.com
Verification log3 days with observations · 8 fact and 3 price observations
- 31 Oct 20261 fact verified
- 2 Oct 20267 facts verified · 2 prices observed
- 18 Jul 20261 price read from an archived capture
A verification re-reads a first-party page. It refreshes freshness and is listed here; only a dated, sourced event becomes a change.
Evidence
7/9 facts verified · 14 sourcesFacts ledger
ampcode.com
ampcode.com: "Agents in orbs keep working after you close your laptop … pick them up from the web, your terminal, or your phone." The docs cover Desktop, CLI, and macOS & iOS clients.
https://ampcode.com ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing: Individual "$20/mo." ("Get Megawatt"); Teams "No extra charge"; Enterprise "Custom".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing: Hobby "Free" — "Pay-as-you-go for orbs Or use your own runners for free", "Bring your own keys (BYOK)".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing, Teams: "SAML/OIDC SSO".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/pricing, Enterprise "Custom": "Pooled credits only, no paid user seats", "SCIM user directory sync", "Audit logs and network/MCP access controls", "IP allowlisting and regional endpoints".
https://ampcode.com/pricing ↗ampcode.com
Amp's documentation, linked as Docs from ampcode.com.
https://ampcode.com/docs ↗ampcode.com
Amp's product news, linked as Chronicle from ampcode.com.
https://ampcode.com/chronicle ↗ampcode.com
ampcode.com/news/self-hosted-orbs (2026-10-22): "Run orbs on your own infrastructure with your security policies, internal tools, and private services."; "You provide the compute and Amp turns it into orbs."
https://ampcode.com/news/self-hosted-orbs ↗Sources · first-party pages read for this record
| Source | Type | Backs |
|---|---|---|
| Amp — official pricing pageampcode.com/pricing | official site | 6 |
| Amp — Chronicle (product news)ampcode.com/chronicle | official site | 2 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/amp-on-android | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/self-hosted-orbs | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/assign-it-to-amp | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/free-agent | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/subscriptions | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/amp-free-is-ad-free | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/amp-free-frontier | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/amp-frontier-corporation | official site | 1 |
| Amp — newsampcode.com/news/amp-free | official site | 1 |
| Amp — official documentationampcode.com/docs | official docs | 1 |
| Amp — official news: self-hosted orbsampcode.com/news/self-hosted-orbs | official site | 1 |
| Amp — official siteampcode.com | official site | 1 |
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