# Amp vs Harness (slim)

> Harness scores 60.3 (C) to Amp's 57.1 (C) for multi-agent orchestration. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Harness scores 60.3 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do multi-agent orchestration.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #686 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Harness: C 60.3, rank #570 of 1133 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/harness-autonomous.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 Maintenance & community, 79 against 60; Transparency & trust, 77 against 68.
- Harness, good for A developer who runs Claude Code and Codex on several machines and wants their agents to hand work to each other where the person can watch. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 85 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 82 against 69; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Amp | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 35 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 82 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 60 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 68 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Harness |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Autonomous, Inc. |
| Transports |  | stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 7 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-17 |
| Terms last updated | no date given |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 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 | 41k npm/wk | 1.3k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |