Amp vs Claude Code

Feature	Amp	Claude Code

Tagline	The frontier coding agent	An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal
Website	https://ampcode.com	https://claude.ai/code
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	April 14, 2025	February 22, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code	VS Code, JetBrains
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench		#2 · 57.9% ±3.8 (Terminal-Bench 4.0) ²
AA Coding Agent Index	-	70% · Fable 5.1 (max, with fallback)
Supported Models	Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.3-Codex, Gemini 3.1 Pro / Flash	Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 (Restricted Availability), Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5
Supported Subscriptions	—	Claude Code
Pricing Model	Usage Based	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free daily grant, then usage-based	$17-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Proprietary Software
Source Code		https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
Development State	active	active