# Amp vs Prime Agent (slim)

> Prime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Prime Agent scores 60.5 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #427 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Prime Agent: C 60.5, rank #352 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prime-agent.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 42; Security & auth, 57 against 50; Transparency & trust, 77 against 64.
- Prime Agent, good for Long-running research and coding work where one model drives subagents, schedules and goals from code, and where the owner can isolate the machine. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 31; Payments & pricing, 60 against 35. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Amp | Prime Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 42 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 79 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Prime Agent |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Prime Intellect |
| Auth | OAuth or key | None |
| 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 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | no date given |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 22k stars |