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 v0 if you are landing pages and React UI.
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 UI builder for React interfaces and landing pages.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Plus · $30/user/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
Verified7 messages a day. Credit grant is the current offer: $5 once for new accounts on the one-time offer, or $5 a month for existing free users. Confirm which offer your account has.
The message cap is documented. The credit offer is account-specific, which is called out in the limits rather than guessed.
Individual
$20/mo
Verified$20 of credits a month. v0's docs say Premium is being sunset and is no longer available to new users.
Shown so you do not plan on it. Excluded from budget matching for that reason.
Individual
$30/user/mo
Verified$30 of included monthly credits per user and $2 of daily credits on login. Extra credits can be purchased. Team sharing and centralized billing.
This is the paid plan the pricing page offers new users. On 2026-10-19 that page showed $30/user/month with $90 struck through beside it. The docs also list Plus at $30/user/month.
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 is capped at 7 messages a day. Paid plans are credit-based. Unused monthly credits roll one cycle and expire after 65 days. Purchased credits expire after one year and need an active paid plan to spend.
On Free, wait until the next day. Seven messages go quickly if you regenerate the whole page.
Amp's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Megawatt at $20/mo. v0's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Plus at $30/user/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.
v0 is for landing pages and React UI, a frontend you will deploy on Vercel, and people who want to see a design before they think about a backend.
Amp scores 1 out of 5 for someone who does not want to read code. v0 scores 4 out of 5. v0 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 prompt a page into existence. You will still see React if you open the code.
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. v0: 7 messages a day, plus a credit offer that depends on the account. New signups under the one-time offer get $5 once. Existing free users may still have $5 a month. Check billing settings.