{"slug": "free-agent", "title": "Free Agent", "summary": "Amp, the agentic coding tool from Sourcegraph, is now free to use for customers who bring their own compute and model subscriptions or API keys, with users paying only for orbs or running agents free on their own machines via runners. The company introduced a free Hobby tier and a no-extra-charge Teams tier, and said Megawatt members receive an average 60% discount and Gigawatt members a 65% discount on Amp usage. Amp also extended its zero and minimal data retention policy to all users and workspaces and gave Megawatt and Gigawatt members early access to additional BYOK providers.", "body_md": "Amp is now free to use when you bring your own compute and model subscriptions/keys.\n\nYou pay us for [orbs](/docs/orbs), our remote computers where your agents run independently and in parallel. Or you can use [runners](/docs/cli/runners) on your own computers to run your Amp agents for free.\n\nYou *can* still pay for model inference through Amp if you want, with no markup.\n\nHere's our new free Hobby tier and no-extra-charge Teams tier, which make it easier to get started with Amp and to get your whole team on it:\n\nSee [Pricing](/pricing) for full details, but let's walk through what changes and what doesn't.\n\nOn average, Megawatt members get a 60% discount and Gigawatt members get a 65% discount on their Amp usage. It's a great deal.\n\nYou'll keep getting the same heavily discounted orb usage and model usage each month, plus you can now feed your orbs with tokens from more places.\n\nWith this change, you're no longer effectively bound by the limits of your ChatGPT sub. You can tap other model providers or your company's preferred AI gateway/provider (more on that below), all without any Amp token fees or limits.\n\nWe've eliminated the biggest sources of friction you might hit when spreading Amp, cost-wise and security-wise.\n\nNow, you can invite everyone to your [Amp workspace](/workspace) for free and feel the magic of Amp's [shared threads](/docs/collaborate/workspaces), [shared portals](/docs/orbs/portals), and [multiplayer](/docs/collaborate/multiplayer).\n\nEveryone can use Amp with ChatGPT subs or your company's preferred AI gateway via BYOK, with no monthly fees.\n\nPower users can upgrade to paid tiers for big orb discounts, while everyone else in the workspace can remain on the free Hobby tier and consume your pooled workspace credits for orbs pay-as-you-go.\n\nAlso, you get free SAML/OIDC SSO for the whole workspace if at least one member is on a paid tier.\n\nFinally, we're now formally extending our [zero and minimal data retention policy](/docs/enterprise/minimal-data-retention) to all Amp users and workspaces, not just to our Enterprise tier. (Everyone was always covered by it for all Amp usage since we started, but until now we could only contractually guarantee that to our Enterprise customers.)\n\nToday, Amp Megawatt and Gigawatt members are also getting early access to more BYOK providers:\n\nTo try these:\n\nWe'll roll this out to everyone soon.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-agent", "canonical_source": "https://ampcode.com/news/free-agent", "published_at": "2026-09-12 20:24:55.210667+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-12 20:24:56.457332+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Amp", "Sourcegraph", "ChatGPT", "Megawatt", "Gigawatt", "Hobby tier", "Teams tier", "BYOK"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-agent", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-agent.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-agent.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-agent.jsonld"}}