Amp started inside Sourcegraph and became an independent company in December 2025. It stays deliberately opinionated: instead of a model picker it offers a four-step effort dial (low, medium, high, ultra) and leans into autonomy, with subagents such as Oracle and Librarian for parallel work. Work happens in shareable threads across its CLI, web and desktop apps, plus cloud runners it calls orbs. Pricing is a free Hobby tier and a $20/month Individual plan; you can also bring your own API keys or link a ChatGPT subscription. It is token-hungry by design, so heavy use still gets expensive.
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Amp runs on Standard Compute