Amp 2026.07.18
Amp 2026.07.18 was released on .
Summary
Subscriptions, At Last 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...
Release Context
- This was the 42nd Amp release of 2026 tracked by Havoptic.
- It shipped 1 day after Amp 2026.07.17 (July 17, 2026).
Shipped around the same time
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- v0 2026.07.21 (July 21, 2026)
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Release Notes
Subscriptions, At Last 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.
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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