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Amp vs Photon Engine

	Amp	Photon Engine
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.	Photon EngineBuild and scale real-time multiplayer games with Photon Fusion, Quantum, Realtime, Voice and Chat. Trusted by thousands of studios. Start free.
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)	Photon EngineFusion: free 20 CCU for development; free 100 CCU for one launched app; 100 CCU $95 one-time for 12 months; 500 CCU $125/mo; 1,000 CCU $250/mo; 2,000 CCU $500/mo; Premium $0.50 per CCU ($1,000/mo minimum); extra traffic $0.05-$0.10/GB (official)
Website	Amphttps://ampcode.com/	Photon Enginehttps://www.photonengine.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.

Photon Engine wins when you want managed multiplayer networking with a free tier to prototype and launch small.

Descriptions in the table come from each vendor's own site. This verdict is a fit call from those official pages as of 4 November 2026, not a shared benchmark or a hands-on score. Prices change, so confirm the pricing row on each tool page. How we review tools.

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