Amp vs Jules (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Amp if

• Fits if you want a coding agent on your own machine with your own model key
• Works for a team that wants shared threads and billing

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay on Individual: orb minutes are capped at 45,000 a month
• Not for you if your Mac is older: the app needs Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later
• Watch out: the Gigawatt tier appears on the pricing page without a readable price
• Skip it if you need SCIM, audit logs or IP allowlisting without Enterprise, whose price is not published

Pick Jules if

• Fits if your code lives on GitHub and you want chores done in the background
• Works for solo developers who can live inside 15 tasks a day

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you use GitLab or Bitbucket, because the docs describe GitHub only
• Watch out: the docs say limits and features may change, as it is an experimental beta
• Tight if you want more, since paid tiers come only through Google AI Pro or Ultra
• Watch out: paid tiers are for individual gmail.com accounts for now, and their prices are not on the Jules pages

Amp

• Orb minutes on the Individual tier are capped at 45,000 a month; when they run out you upgrade or buy more credits.
• The Gigawatt tier appears on the pricing page but its price is not shown in the page text, so it is not listed here.
• The Mac app requires Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later, per the download page.
• Enterprise pricing is not published, and SCIM, audit logs and IP allowlisting are Enterprise-only.

Jules

• It works with GitHub repositories; the docs describe no other code host.
• Paid tiers come only through Google AI Pro or Ultra, and for now only for individual @gmail.com accounts.
• The Jules pages do not state the Google AI plan prices, so no monthly figure is recorded here.
• The docs call Jules an experimental coding agent in public beta, and say limits and features may change.

Amp

Cloud orbs

An orb is a cloud computer where an agent works remotely. Minutes are counted only while it runs and stop when it pauses while idle.

Self-hosted orbs

Orbs can run on your own infrastructure for free on Hobby, Individual and Teams, and they do not use orb minutes.

Bring your own models

You can use ChatGPT, Claude and other subscriptions or your own API keys with no Amp token fees; your provider's own limits and charges apply.

Automations that wake threads

In the vendor's demo video, a thread uses automations to wake itself on a schedule and check production logs.

Team workspaces

Workspaces share threads, portals, plugins and skills, with multiplayer, permissions and SAML/OIDC SSO.

Apps on desktop and phone

The download page lists apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, iPhone, iPad and Android for following agents away from your desk.

Jules

Plan before changes

After a prompt, Jules writes a plan that you can review and approve before any code is edited.

Cloud virtual machine

Jules clones the repository into a virtual machine, installs dependencies and edits files there, so work continues while you are away.

Pull requests on GitHub

Finished work arrives as a diff you can browse and approve, then as a pull request. Adding a 'jules' label to an issue also assigns it a task.

AGENTS.md support

Jules reads an AGENTS.md file in the repository root to learn conventions and how to work with the codebase.

Scheduled and suggested tasks

The docs describe scheduled tasks and suggested tasks, and there is a command-line tool and a REST API alongside the web app.

Amp

• Hobby$0

  No monthly fee; Amp-hosted orbs are pay-as-you-go, self-hosted orbs are free, with no Amp token fees on your own keys.

• Individual (Megawatt)$20

  per month

  45,000 minutes of orb time on Amp-hosted orbs, plus Amp credits for inference. A Gigawatt tier also exists; its price was not readable.

• Teams$0

  no extra charge for a workspace

  Shared threads, portals and billing with SSO; each member stays on Hobby or a paid tier, and SSO needs one paid member.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Pooled credits with no paid seats, SCIM, audit logs, IP allowlisting, spend limits and custom orb pricing.

Jules

• Jules$0

  15 tasks per day, 3 concurrent tasks, powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro.

• Jules in ProIncluded

  with a Google AI Pro subscription

  100 tasks per day, 15 concurrent tasks and higher access to the latest models, starting with Gemini 3 Pro.

• Jules in UltraIncluded

  with a Google AI Ultra subscription

  300 tasks per day, 60 concurrent tasks and priority access to the latest models.

Amp

• Education

  Megawatt for $10 a month for students and teachers

  Students and teachers can get the Megawatt tier at $10 per month through the Education Discount.

Jules

No public discounts listed.