Amp vs Claude Code

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	Amp Frontier coding agent originally built at Sourcegraph, now developed by the independent Amp Frontier Corporation.	Claude Code Anthropic's official agentic CLI; plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, subagents.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	usage	subscription
Strengths	+ Multi-surface workflow across CLI, editor plugins, web, and mobile remote control + Pay-as-you-go pricing with no markup for individual users + Extensible via plugins and MCP servers + Independent, self-described profitable company focused solely on the agent	+ Mature primitives (skills, hooks, plugins, MCP, subagents) + Official Anthropic-supported harness + Strong ecosystem of community plugins/marketplaces
Tradeoffs	− Closed source, unlike terminal-agent alternatives such as OpenCode or Aider − Opinionated model selection managed by Amp rather than freely user-configured − Fast-changing product and branding (recently consolidated Amp Neo back into Amp)	− Terminal-first UX may not fit non-engineer users
Used in stacks	0	4