Amp+69 Strong positive

GILD Review

GILD's call and the buying facts behind it.

From GILD research

Should we adopt Amp?

Can a team control what Amp's agents run when approvals are off by default?

30-Second TakePick Amp if your engineers hand off whole tasks and run several agents at once.
Best fitTeams that delegate whole tasks to agents on cloud machines.GILD Review
Consider another workflowIf engineers want the agent inside VS Code or JetBrains, or approvals on by default, Claude Code or Cursor fits better.GILD Review

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GILD analysis

Amp Review

Pilot Amp when engineers will run several agents at once and review what comes back. Each mode routes work across Anthropic, OpenAI, and other models, and the free tier runs on engineers' own model subscriptions. Agents run tools without approval by default, several team controls need Enterprise, and Amp retires features quickly.

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The decision

Best fit: Teams that delegate whole tasks to agents on cloud machines.
Consider another workflow: If engineers want the agent inside VS Code or JetBrains, or approvals on by default, Claude Code or Cursor fits better.
Adoption condition: Install a workspace plugin that controls tool calls, set Ship Behavior to match your merge policy, and give engineers a written mode policy.

Basis: Amp documentation and pricing, plus public accounts from engineers and teams. In a pilot, measure credit and orb spend per accepted change.

Buying & deployment factsWhat engineering leaders should verify before a broader rollout.

How you buy it

US$20

A month for Individual. Gigawatt adds the largest orb, Hobby is free, and Teams adds no charge.

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Details

Hobby is free. Individual (Megawatt) costs US$20 per month with 45,000 minutes of time on Amp-hosted orbs; Gigawatt, the higher Individual tier, is the only one with the a1.3xlarge orb size. A Teams workspace adds no charge and accepts members on any tier. Enterprise has custom pricing with pooled credits and no paid seats.

Cost drivers

No markup

Inference bills at providers' API prices outside Enterprise. Orbs bill by the minute.

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Details

Inference bills to Amp credits at providers' API prices, with no markup outside Enterprise. It can also bill to your own keys or linked ChatGPT and Claude plans, with no Amp token fees. Orbs bill by the minute, from US$0.08 to US$2.13 per hour by size. Projects default to a1.medium at US$0.33 per hour, and personal projects on Megawatt default to a1.small at US$0.17.

Where it runs

CLI, apps, cloud

Threads run on your runners, Amp's orbs, or self-hosted orbs. The Amp service itself is hosted.

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Details

Amp has a CLI for macOS, Linux, and Windows through WSL, plus web, macOS, iPhone and iPad, and Android apps; the Android app arrived on October 27, 2026. Threads run on your own runners, on orbs Amp hosts, or on self-hosted orbs, whose orb provider runs inside your infrastructure and reaches out to Amp. Self-hosted orbs are free on Hobby, Individual, and Teams, and Enterprise pays the standard orb price for them from October 29, 2026. The Amp service itself has no self-hosted deployment. Editor extensions ended March 5, 2026.

What to verify

No approval by default

Amp runs tools without asking, and the default Ship behavior pushes straight to the base branch.

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Details

Amp runs tools without asking. The default Ship behavior commits, rebases, and pushes straight to the base branch; set Ship Behavior to Push to Branch or a Custom Ship prompt to require pull requests. SCIM directory sync, MCP registry allowlists, and per-user cost controls require Enterprise.