Amp (Sourcegraph)

What is Amp?

Amp is an agentic coding tool from the team behind Sourcegraph. It runs shell commands, edits files, and executes tests on its own rather than waiting for approval at every step. Work routes across several frontier models depending on difficulty, and it runs from a CLI, the web, your IDE, or Slack.

Top Features:

• Multi-model routing: sends each task to whichever frontier model suits it best.
• Four effort modes: low, medium, high, and ultra trade speed against depth.
• Subagents and Oracle: spawns parallel workers and a reasoning model for hard problems.

Use Cases:

• Large refactors: sweep a change across many files without hand editing each.
• Debugging: let the agent run tests, read failures, and iterate toward a fix.
• Team workflows: share threads so colleagues can follow and continue the work.

Who Can Use Amp?

• Software engineers: hand off repetitive implementation work while reviewing the resulting diff.
• Engineering teams: pool billing and share agent threads across a shared workspace.
• Platform teams: automate migrations and cleanups across large legacy codebases.

Pricing

• Megawatt (20 dollars monthly): low and medium modes with twenty dollars usage included.
• Gigawatt (200 dollars monthly): every mode unlocked including high and ultra.
• Unconstrained (usage based): team and enterprise billing at underlying API token rates.

Pros and Cons

Pros:

• Editor agnostic: works in any IDE instead of forcing a forked editor.
• Genuinely autonomous: runs commands and tests without constant approval prompts.
• Team features: shared threads and pooled credits suit collaborative engineering work.

Cons:

• No free tier: paid plans start at twenty dollars every month.
• Usage overages: heavy sessions push past included credits and add charges.
• Autonomy risk: unattended shell access demands careful sandboxing on sensitive repositories.

FAQs:

1) Which editors does it support?

It runs through a CLI, web interface, IDE extensions, and Slack.

2) Does it ask before running commands?

No, it executes shell commands and edits files without approval prompts.

3) Is there a free plan?

No, the entry subscription costs twenty dollars per month per seat.

4) Can teams share billing?

Yes, workspaces pool credits and let colleagues share agent threads together.

5) Is a student discount available?

Yes, verified students and teachers pay ten dollars per month instead.