# Amp vs Crush (slim)

> Amp and Crush score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 57.1 and 56.5 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Amp and Crush score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.1 (C) and 56.5 (C). Crush leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #691 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Crush: C 56.5, rank #705 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crush.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 Schema & documentation, 72 against 65; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 52; Security & auth, 57 against 44; Transparency & trust, 77 against 56.
- Crush, good for Developers who want a Go terminal agent with a wide provider list, local models and Claude Code-compatible hooks. Ahead on Reliability, 54 against 31; Payments & pricing, 55 against 35. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amp | Crush |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 54 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 65 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 52 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 55 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Crush |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Charm |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | FSL-1.1-MIT (source-available, each release converts to MIT two years after it is made available) |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | no document linked |
| 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 | 41k npm/wk | 29k stars, 5.6k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.3/5 (4) |