A decision for a beginner, not a spec sheet. Scores are our weights. Prices are the public plans, and anything marked verify on the tool page should be re-checked before you pay.
Pick Amp if you want a repo you want an agent to work on in parallel, including while your laptop is closed.
Pick Bolt.new if you want a first web app or landing page you want to see running today.
A coding agent you can run free on your own machine, or in Amp's cloud.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Megawatt · $20/mo
A browser builder with a generous free token pool and a $25 Pro plan.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Pro · $25/mo
Web app or SaaS
Mobile app
Game
Website or landing page
Automation or script
No code
I can follow a change
I already develop
Last verified 2026-10-19
Individual
Free
VerifiedAll product features. No monthly fee. Pay-as-you-go orbs, or your own runners at no Amp charge. Linked ChatGPT, Claude, and other subscriptions, and bring-your-own-key, with no Amp token fees or limits. No included orb minutes and no included Amp credits.
The Hobby card is on ampcode.com/pricing. Standard orb rates, if you do use cloud machines, are on the orb sizes page and start at $0.08 an hour for a1.tiny.
Individual
$20/mo
Verified45,000 minutes of orb time and $20 of Amp credits, then more credits at provider list price. Unlimited public and private repositories, and your own portal domains. Soft hosting limits on the card are 1 GB of repository storage and 10 GB of monthly transfer.
This is the Individual price shown on the default pricing tab. Included usage does not roll over. The $20 of credits is the amount the pricing card prints for this tier.
Individual
$10/mo
VerifiedThe same Megawatt allowance, at $10 a month for students and teachers. The pricing card shows $10 of included Amp credits when the education discount is applied.
The pricing FAQ says students and teachers can get Megawatt for $10 per month. Left out of budget matching so a general under-$10 question cannot be won by a discount most readers cannot buy.
Individual
$200/mo
Verified480,000 minutes of orb time, which is the Gigawatt tab's minute figure, and $200 of Amp credits. The underlying allowance is 1,000 hours of a1.xxlarge. a1.3xlarge orbs are limited to Gigawatt and Enterprise. Soft hosting limits are 10 GB of repository storage and 100 GB of monthly transfer.
The $200 price is the Gigawatt tier on ampcode.com/pricing. The default tab is Megawatt, so the $200 card is the other Individual tab. A note on the orb details says 10× limits for Gigawatt.
Last verified 2026-10-19
Individual
Free
Verified300K tokens per day and 1M tokens per month. Bolt branding, 10MB uploads, hosting up to 333k web requests.
Daily leftover tokens do not carry into the next day.
Individual
$25/mo
VerifyBilling docs say annual saves 10%. A worked example on the same page lists the Pro 10M annual plan at $216/year, which is not 10% off $25/mo. Confirm the annual price in the upgrade dialog.
Starts at 10M tokens per month, no daily cap. Unused paid tokens roll for one extra month. Custom domain, no Bolt branding, 100MB uploads.
The pricing page lists Pro at $25/mo as the starting individual paid plan. The monthly price is used for matching. The annual rate is marked verify because the billing page states both 10% off and $216/year.
Included Megawatt and Gigawatt usage resets at the end of the monthly billing period and does not roll over. Purchased credits expire 12 months after you buy them. A paused orb costs nothing. Amp pauses an idle orb 5 minutes after the agent stops, or 20 minutes after your last interaction, whichever is later.
On Hobby, use your own runner if the bill you are avoiding is orb time. Model limits on a linked ChatGPT or Claude subscription are that vendor's cap, not an Amp cap.
Free tokens reset on the 1st and do not roll over. The daily 300K cap resets every day and also does not roll. Paid tokens reset on the renewal date and roll for one extra month while the subscription stays active.
On Free, wait for the daily reset, or for the 1st if the monthly million is gone.
Amp's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Megawatt at $20/mo. Bolt.new's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Pro at $25/mo. Bolt.new Pro is marked verify.
Amp is for a repo you want an agent to work on in parallel, including while your laptop is closed, people who already pay for ChatGPT or Claude and want to use that subscription inside an agent, and developers who can review agent output and do not need a hosted app builder.
Bolt.new is for a first web app or landing page you want to see running today, beginners who want a free month of real building, not a 10-message demo, and people who may later edit the generated code in the code view.
Amp scores 1 out of 5 for someone who does not want to read code. Bolt.new scores 5 out of 5. Bolt.new has the higher no-code score. You are starting threads against a project and reading what the agent did. This is not a no-code builder. You can stay in the chat and still publish. Code view is there when you want it.
Amp: Free to Amp if you bring your own model subscription or key and run on your own machine. Cloud orbs are pay-as-you-go. Hobby includes no orb minutes and no Amp credits. Bolt.new: 1 million tokens per month and a 300,000 token daily cap. Public and private projects, Bolt branding, and a 10MB upload limit. Direct edits in Code view do not spend tokens.