Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal and IDE: understands the codebase, edits files, runs commands.
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Claude Code vs Amp
Claude Code is provisional S-tier and Amp is provisional A-tier on Terminal Coding Agents. Rankings are never for sale.
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Coding agent and dev environment from Sourcegraph lineage; runs unattended or locally via CLI.
Website| Field | Claude Code | Amp |
|---|---|---|
| Tier | S · provisional | A · provisional |
| Why | Benchmark-setting terminal agent and one of the most-starred coding-agent repos (150k+). | Frontier-focused agent with unattended and local modes; pricing needs verification. |
| Pricing | paid (via Claude plans or API) · starts at $20/mo (Claude Pro; $17/mo annual) | Pricing not verified |
| GitHub stars | 151,056 | — |
| Last push | Oct 15, 2026 | — |
| Last verified | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |