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Comparison

Amp vs Zed

	Amp	Zed
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.	ZedZed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, with AI edit predictions and an agent panel that can use your own API keys or external agents.
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)	ZedPersonal $0 forever (bring your own API keys or external agents like Claude Agent and Codex CLI); Pro $10/mo (unlimited edit predictions, $5 of tokens included, then usage-based; 14-day free trial); Business $30/seat/mo (official)
Website	Amphttps://ampcode.com/	Zedhttps://zed.dev/

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.

Zed wins when you want a lightweight AI-capable editor and prefer to pay for model usage yourself.

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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