Amp vs Devin

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	Amp Frontier coding agent originally built at Sourcegraph, now developed by the independent Amp Frontier Corporation.	Devin Cognition's autonomous cloud software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and opens pull requests on its own.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	usage	freemium
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	+ Fully autonomous cloud sessions that run tasks end to end without local setup + Access to multiple frontier model families plus Cognition's own SWE models + Quota-based plans scale from a free tier to high-usage Max and Teams tiers
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)	− Works best on well-scoped tasks; practitioners report mixed results on ambiguous or large refactors − Quota allowances can deplete quickly on long autonomous runs, pushing users to API-priced top-ups − Closed source with less interactive steering than pair-programming style CLI agents
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