# Amp vs Claude Code (slim)

> Claude Code scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Claude Code scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on payments & pricing. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #482 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Claude Code: C 61.9, rank #354 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-code.min.md
- 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 Payments & pricing, 35 against 20. Also No incidents deducted, where Claude Code loses 6 points for them.
- Claude Code, good for A developer or a pipeline that wants Claude doing repository work with fine-grained, centrally managed permissions and an SDK for the same loop. Ahead on Reliability, 50 against 31; Schema & documentation, 80 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 87 against 69; Security & auth, 80 against 57.

| Category | Amp | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 50 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 87 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 80 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 81 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Anthropic |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | Proprietary. `LICENSE.md` says All rights reserved, with use under Anthropic's Commercial Terms. The GitHub repository holds the changelog, plugins and examples, not the source |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 141k stars |