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. 8 votes cast so far.
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.
Across 8 community votes on this matchup, OpenCode currently leads in 5 of six categories. Cast your own vote above to move the needle.
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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.
OpenCode runs on Standard Compute
