# Amp vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh) (slim)

> Amp scores 57.1 (C) to DeepSeek Harness's 49.2 (D) 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 DeepSeek Harness (dsh)'s 49.2 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. DeepSeek Harness (dsh) leads on schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #691 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- DeepSeek Harness (dsh): D 49.2, rank #909 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepseek-harness.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 Security & auth, 57 against 40; Maintenance & community, 79 against 71; Transparency & trust, 77 against 50. Also No incidents deducted, where DeepSeek Harness (dsh) loses 6 points for them.
- DeepSeek Harness (dsh), good for Developers who use DeepSeek models and want a scriptable harness with ACP, a JSON event stream and a Python SDK. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 77 against 72; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Amp | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 33 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 40 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 71 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | DeepSeek Harness (dsh) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | DeepSeek |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-17 |
| 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 | 245k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |