Amp
Frontier coding agent for the terminal and your editor.
An agentic coding tool originally built at Sourcegraph and spun out as an independent company in December 2025. It runs in the terminal and in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs and Neovim.
- Vendor
- Amp
- Category
- Coding assistants
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- No
- Platforms
- CLI, VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim
- Launched
- 2025
- Website
- ampcode.com
Features
- Terminal + editor agent
- Subagents
- Thread sharing
Best for
- Coding
- Agents
Works with
- Claude Opus 5.5 — Anthropic. Anthropic’s top Claude model for hard reasoning, large codebases and long agent runs.
- GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI. OpenAI’s mid-tier GPT-6 model for agentic coding and computer use.
More coding assistants
- Claude Code — Anthropic. Agentic coding in your terminal, IDE and browser.
- GitHub Copilot — GitHub (Microsoft). The most widely deployed AI pair programmer.
- Cursor — Anysphere. The AI-native code editor.
- Codex — OpenAI. OpenAI’s cloud and CLI coding agent.
- Cline — Cline. Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code.
- Windsurf — Cognition. Agentic IDE with the Cascade agent.
- Google Antigravity — Google. Agent-first IDE with a manager view for orchestrating many agents.
- Lovable — Lovable. Build apps by chatting with AI.