Amp

Name: Amp
Rating: 4.5 (410 reviews)

Sourcegraph's unconstrained agentic coding tool with pass-through pricing

4.5(410 reviews)

Developer Tools

Quick buyer guide

Is Amp right for you?

Use this section to decide whether Amp belongs on your shortlist before you visit the vendor, request a demo, or start implementation planning.

Best for

Teams evaluating developer tools tools for a real business workflow.
Users who need sourcegraph's unconstrained agentic coding tool with pass-through pricing.
Businesses that already use or can connect VS Code, JetBrains, GitHub.

Not ideal if

Organisations that need enterprise procurement, compliance, and dedicated support from day one.
Teams without a clear use case, owner, or success metric for the tool.
Businesses that cannot yet review data, privacy, permissions, and approval requirements.

Common use cases

Assist with coding, debugging, testing, documentation, and code review.

Improve developer productivity inside IDEs, repositories, and CI workflows.

Generate boilerplate, explain code, and speed up common engineering tasks.

Support teams adopting AI-assisted software development practices.

Implementation effort

Low

Amp should be relatively quick to trial. Start with one use case, check output quality, and confirm data/privacy settings before wider use.

Pricing clarity

A free tier may be available, but useful business features often sit behind paid plans. Check limits, exports, integrations, and team controls.

Digital by Default verdict

Amp is worth considering if you need developer tools capability and the core features match a real workflow. Treat it as a low-effort adoption: shortlist it, compare alternatives, and test it on a small but realistic process before wider rollout.

Questions to ask before buying

1Can the tool access private repositories, and how is that access controlled?
2Does it fit your IDE, git, CI, and code review workflow?
3How does it handle security, licensing, and generated-code review?
4Can usage be governed across the team?
5What data is used for model improvement, if any?

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About

Amp is Sourcegraph's frontier agentic coding tool, available as a CLI and a VS Code extension, designed for autonomous reasoning across complex multi-step code tasks. It always uses the best available frontier models with no token-limit constraints, and is distinctive for charging raw LLM usage with no markup plus an ad-supported free mode. Amp has become a popular Claude Code and Codex alternative for teams that want unconstrained agent power.