Comparison

Amp vs Nakama (Heroic Labs)

	Amp	Nakama (Heroic Labs)
What it says it does	AmpAmp is a coding agent and development environment built for the frontier. You can build anything in Amp, in orbs that let you run the agent without supervision from anywhere, or on your own machine with our CLI and runner.	Nakama (Heroic Labs)Scalable game backend and LiveOps stack for multiplayer games. Nakama from Heroic Labs handles accounts, matchmaking, leaderboards, chat and realtime multiplayer, open source or on managed Heroic Cloud.
Pricing	AmpHobby free (pay as you go for Amp-hosted orbs, unlimited self-hosted orbs, bring your own ChatGPT/Claude subscriptions or API keys with no Amp token fees); Individual $20/mo (45,000 minutes of hosted orb time, unlimited public/private repositories, your own domains for portals); Teams no extra charge (shared billing and pooled credits, SSO); Enterprise custom (official)	Nakama (Heroic Labs)Nakama open source: free to self-host; Heroic Cloud (managed, includes Nakama Enterprise, no DAU/MAU/CCU limits): $400 per Nakama CPU + $200 per database CPU per month (about $600/mo for the smallest 1+1 production setup); smaller development tier available; Satori LiveOps from $600/mo (official)
Website	Amphttps://ampcode.com/	Nakama (Heroic Labs)https://heroiclabs.com/

Which tool for which job

Amp wins when you want an agent that can keep working unattended and you already pay for a model subscription.

Nakama (Heroic Labs) wins when you want an open-source backend you control, or predictable CPU-based pricing with no per-player fees.