# Agent Zero vs Amp (slim)

> Amp scores 57.1 (C) to Agent Zero's 54.2 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amp scores 57.1 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Zero's 54.2 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Agent Zero leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Agent Zero: C 54.2, rank #709 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.min.md
- Amp: C 57.1, rank #636 of 986 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Agent Zero, good for A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 31; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Amp, good for Teams that want a hosted, multi-model coding agent with shared threads and cloud machines, driven from scripts through execute mode or the SDKs. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 72 against 64; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 62; Transparency & trust, 77 against 55. Also No incidents deducted, where Agent Zero loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Agent Zero | Amp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 31 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agent Zero | Amp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | Amp Frontier Corporation |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-10 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 19k stars | 41k npm/wk |