# Amp vs Jules (slim)

> Amp scores 57.1 (C) to Jules's 44.5 (E) 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 Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #691 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.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 Reliability, 31 against 13; Agent ergonomics, 69 against 64; Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Maintenance & community, 79 against 18; Transparency & trust, 77 against 44.
- Jules, good for A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Amp | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 13 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 18 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Google LLC |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| 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 service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-03-09 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |