Amp 2026.08.18
Amp 2026.08.18 was released on .
Summary
Education Discount Students and teachers can now subscribe to Amp for $10/month, half the usual price. What do you get for $10? Quite a lot! You get to use the best frontier agent. You get orbs, ou...
Release Context
- This was the 56th Amp release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped the same day as Amp 2026.08.18.2 (August 18, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
Within 3 days of this release, other AI coding tools also shipped:
- Devin Desktop v3.8.20 (August 21, 2026)
- Factory Droid v0.202.0 (August 21, 2026)
- Replit Agent 2026.08.21 (August 21, 2026)
- Antigravity CLI v1.1.17 (August 20, 2026)
- OpenAI Codex CLI rust-v0.149.0 (August 20, 2026)
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Release Notes
Education Discount Students and teachers can now subscribe to Amp for $10/month, half the usual price. What do you get for $10? Quite a lot! You get to use the best frontier agent. You get orbs, our remote machines that let you run agents from anywhere without supervision. You get code hosting for unlimited public/private repositories. And you get to use great models, through linking your ChatGPT sub for GPT-6/GPT-5.6 or 𝕏 Premium+/SuperGrok subscription for Grok 4.6. Plus $10 in credits each month for use on any other model. Get it at ampcode.com/edu.
Other Recent Amp Releases
- 2026.10.19 (October 19, 2026)
- 2026.10.16 (October 16, 2026)
- 2026.10.13 (October 13, 2026)
- 2026.10.12 (October 12, 2026)
- 2026.10.12.2 (October 12, 2026)
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