Amp vs OpenCode

Pick two tools from the same category to compare side-by-side.

	Amp Frontier coding agent originally built at Sourcegraph, now developed by the independent Amp Frontier Corporation.	OpenCode Open-source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE, and desktop, maintained by Anomaly.
Category	harness	harness
Vendor type	commercial	hybrid
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	+ MIT-licensed and developed fully in the open with a large contributor base + Provider-agnostic with 75+ LLM providers, local models, and BYOK support + Privacy-first design that does not store code or context data server-side + Runs in terminal, IDE, and desktop with multi-session support
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)	− Rapid release cadence can bring breaking changes between versions − Result quality varies with whichever provider and model the user configures
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