Amp vs OpenCode — Which AI Agent Is Better?
An in-depth comparison of Amp and OpenCode across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
An in-depth comparison of Amp and OpenCode across output quality, autonomy, reliability, speed, value, and ease of use. Vote for your favorite.
Pick a winner in each category — you can change your vote anytime.
AmpOpenCodeChoose Amp if you are teams that want maximum-capability agentic coding and will pay for tokens at cost. Choose OpenCode if you are terminal users who want a polished AI coding interface with LSP support.
In our editorial scoring, Amp leads in 3 of six categories (output quality, autonomy and reliability), while OpenCode leads in 1 (value). On price, Amp runs usage-based credits / free tier and is proprietary; OpenCode runs free (byo api key) / pro via standard compute and is open source.
Amp is Sourcegraph's take on agentic coding: no model picker, no knobs — it always runs frontier models with maximum reasoning and leans into autonomy. Work happens in shareable threads across the VS Code extension and CLI, with subagents for parallelizable work and team visibility into how colleagues prompt. It's deliberately opinionated and token-hungry; credits are consumed at cost, so sustained heavy use gets expensive, and there's no BYO-key escape hatch.
OpenCode is an open-source terminal AI coding agent with a beautiful TUI (text user interface). It supports multiple LLM providers, has LSP integration for intelligent code understanding, and offers session management for long-running tasks. Designed for developers who live in the terminal.
Both work with any OpenAI-compatible provider. Point the base URL at Standard Compute and get unlimited frontier-model compute from $9/mo flat — no per-token billing, no 429 rate limits.
Whichever AI agent you choose, Standard Compute gives you unlimited LLM compute at one flat monthly price. No rate limits, no per-token billing.
