Amp vs Ante

Feature	Amp	Ante

Tagline	The frontier coding agent	Self-contained Rust agent harness with native offline inference
Website	https://ampcode.com	https://ante.run/
Language	typescript	rust
Release Date	April 14, 2025	December 23, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code	None shipped; `ante serve` exposes a JSONL protocol for editor plugins
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench		#23 · 69.4% ±2.1 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) ²
Supported Models	Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.3-Codex, Gemini 3.1 Pro / Flash	17 built-in presets: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini and Vertex, xAI Grok, DeepSeek, OpenRouter, Zai, Ali Coding Plan, Antix, plus any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via ~/.ante/catalog.json and any local GGUF model through the bundled llama.cpp
Supported Subscriptions	-	Claude Code ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Usage Based	Free, BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free daily grant, then usage-based	Free (alpha preview)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Proprietary Software
Source Code		https://github.com/AntigmaLabs/ante
Development State	active	active