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 Lovable if you want a web app or SaaS you want to describe in the browser.
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 for web apps, with a hard monthly cap on the free plan.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Pro 100 · $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
Verified5 build credits per day, maximum 30 per calendar month. 20 Cloud credits, 4 AI credits, and 1 connector credit per month. No code edit, code download, or custom domain.
Daily credits resume on the 1st at 00:00 UTC after the monthly cap.
Individual
$25/mo
VerifiedAnnual is $250 ($21/mo), two months free versus monthly.
100 monthly credits, plus 5 build credits every day with no monthly cap. 20 Cloud credits, 4 AI credits, and 1 connector credit per month. Code edit, download, custom domain, badge removal. Top-ups are $15 per 50 credits.
The ladder runs from 100 to 10,000 credits. Higher rungs cost more. See the Pro tier table in Lovable's docs.
Individual
$50/mo
VerifiedAnnual is $500 ($42/mo).
200 monthly credits. Same Pro features as the $25 tier.
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.
Daily build credits reset at 00:00 UTC and do not roll over. On Free they stop after 30 in a calendar month until the 1st. Paid monthly credits last two months from issue.
On Free, wait until the next UTC day, or until the 1st if you already used 30 build credits.
Amp's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Megawatt at $20/mo. Lovable's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Pro 100 at $25/mo.
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.
Lovable is for a web app or SaaS you want to describe in the browser, a marketing site when you also want a simple app behind it, and beginners who do not want to open an editor on day one.
Amp scores 1 out of 5 for someone who does not want to read code. Lovable scores 5 out of 5. Lovable 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. One of the few tools in this set that is honest about a no-code start.
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. Lovable: 5 build credits a day, capped at 30 per calendar month, plus 20 Cloud credits, 4 AI credits, and 1 connector credit. You cannot edit or download the code, or attach a custom domain, until Pro.