# Amp vs GitHub Copilot CLI (slim)

> GitHub Copilot CLI and Amp score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.6 (C) and 57.1 (C). Amp leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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GitHub Copilot CLI and Amp score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 57.6 (C) and 57.1 (C). Amp leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #427 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- GitHub Copilot CLI: C 57.6, rank #415 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/github-copilot-cli.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 Transparency & trust, 77 against 68. Also No incidents deducted, where GitHub Copilot CLI loses 5 points for them.
- GitHub Copilot CLI, good for Developers and teams already on GitHub and Copilot who want an agent that knows their repositories and issues, and a cloud agent that opens pull requests. Ahead on Reliability, 55 against 31; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amp | GitHub Copilot CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 55 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 72 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 72 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 60 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | GitHub Copilot CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | GitHub |
| 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, under the licence in the repository's `LICENSE.md`. Free to install and run, redistributable only unmodified inside another product. The repository holds the README, changelog and install script, not the source |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-04-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2026-04-27 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 11k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |