--- title: Subscriptions, At Last link: https://ampcode.com/news/subscriptions source: ampcode-com published: 2026-07-18T00:00:00Z updated: 2026-07-18T00:00:00Z first_seen: 2026-10-03T23:09:50.514863041Z summary: Today we're launching Amp Subscriptions in Beta. You can now subscribe monthly to Amp and explore the frontier with us, with cheaper and more predictable pricing. See current tiers and pricing. Tier FAQs Amp Is Not (Necessarily) Expensive Anymore Amp just got a lot cheaper for many of you, especially if you link your ChatGPT subscription. We know you've been asking for this for a long time. Until now, Amp's pricing model has been pay-as-you-go for tokens at API prices, no subscription. Compared to other agents on monthly subscriptions, this made Amp more expensive—"the Apple or Porsche of agentic coding tools", to put it nicely. But everything is changing. Great tokens are reasonably priced. Good-enough tokens are downright cheap (like GLM-5.2 in our new low mode). Being on the frontier no longer requires using the most expensive models. You can still pay-as-you-go in Amp; monthly subscriptions aren't required. And, to be clear, to use Amp beyond your subscription's included monthly limits, you need to link your ChatGPT subscription or add paid credits. The Frontier Runs in Orbs, Not Your Laptop The frontier is now about agents working for you in parallel, without your supervision, on remote machines. We call these "orbs", and Amp's monthly subscriptions include so much orbs usage you don't need to worry about counting the minutes. We want you to finally be able to (and want to) kill your singleton local dev environment. We want you to make your agents go further to prove to you their work is correct, with videos and screenshots and local dev portals, and much less manual code review. Remember last year, when other agents asked you to approve the agent's work step-by-step, edit-by-edit? Amp users realized before anyone else that was dumb and slow, and Amp never did that. This shift feels similar to us. It's inevitable, and we want it to go as fast as possible. We hope this subscription makes it easy for you to explore this new frontier with us. content: extracted html: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.html preview: file: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.preview-ceba948942ca.webp width: 256 height: 134 color: '#666350' images: - source: https://ampcode.com/og?_template=news&_version=7&title=Subscriptions%2C+At+Last&date=July+18%2C+2026&tagline=Subscribe+monthly+to+Amp+to+explore+the+agentic+frontier+more+cheaply+and+predictably%2C+especially+with+a+linked+ChatGPT+sub.&backgroundImage=https%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ampcode.com%2Fnews%2Fsubscriptions-at-last.jpeg&sig=6cd5daf972f13c9c592a116cec04f175725ae1ad24266bdabd94bbe65da0ae19 original: file: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.image-3a95f6769956.png width: 1200 height: 630 variants: - file: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.image-a9103ba8b506.webp width: 320 height: 168 - file: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.image-3cd2bc549819.webp width: 640 height: 336 - file: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.image-5663f80e9dfd.webp width: 960 height: 504 - file: 2026-07-18-subscriptions-at-last.image-3c1a7dc75fe5.webp width: 1200 height: 630 color: '#232619' --- Today we're launching Amp Subscriptions in **Beta**. You can now subscribe monthly to Amp and explore the frontier with us, with cheaper and more predictable pricing. [See current tiers and pricing](https://ampcode.com/pricing). [Tier FAQs](https://ampcode.com/pricing#tier-faqs) ## Amp Is Not (Necessarily) Expensive Anymore Amp just got a *lot* cheaper for many of you, especially if you [link your ChatGPT subscription](https://ampcode.com/settings/model-routing?add=chatgpt). We know you've been asking for this for a long time. Until now, Amp's pricing model has been pay-as-you-go for tokens at API prices, no subscription. Compared to other agents on monthly subscriptions, this made Amp more expensive—["the Apple or Porsche of agentic coding tools"](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/#:~:text=Amp%20feels%20like%20the%20Apple%20or%20Porsche%20of%20agentic%20coding%20tools), to put it nicely. But everything is changing. Great tokens are reasonably priced. Good-enough tokens are downright cheap (like GLM-5.2 in our [new low mode](https://ampcode.com/news/the-dial)). Being on the frontier no longer requires using the most expensive models. You *can* still pay-as-you-go in Amp; monthly subscriptions aren't required. And, to be clear, to use Amp beyond your subscription's included monthly limits, you need to [link your ChatGPT subscription](https://ampcode.com/settings/model-routing?add=chatgpt) or add paid credits. ## The Frontier Runs in [Orbs](https://ampcode.com/news/agents-in-orbs), Not Your Laptop The frontier is now about agents working for you in parallel, without your supervision, on remote machines. We call these ["orbs"](https://ampcode.com/news/agents-in-orbs), and Amp's monthly subscriptions include so much orbs usage you don't need to worry about counting the minutes. We want you to finally be able to (and want to) kill your singleton local dev environment. We want you to make your agents go further to prove to you their work is correct, with videos and screenshots and local dev portals, and much less manual code review. Remember last year, when other agents asked you to approve the agent's work step-by-step, edit-by-edit? Amp users realized before anyone else that was dumb and slow, and Amp never did that. This shift feels similar to us. It's inevitable, and we want it to go as fast as possible. We hope this subscription makes it easy for you to explore this new frontier with us.