Amp Orbs

ampcode.com · Compute · 2 records · JSON

Amp Computecaveatemail?card?phoneD
Amp Orbs Computepaidemail?card?Drequest-rate

Amp Compute

caveatemail?card?phoneD

ampcode.com/pricing · cloud VM · compute/amp-2 · JSON · compare

Free tier	Amp Hobby: "Free" with "Pay-as-you-go for Amp-hosted orbs", "Unlimited self-hosted orbs, free", "Bring your own keys (BYOK)", "No Amp token fees or limits", quoted unit minutes; metered on wall-clock; free-product
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) unverified: no page stating the signup requirement was read; the record's evidence covers the Hobby plan's USD 0 price, its unlimited self-hosted orbs, BYOK and its 'No Amp token fees or limits' term, and states nothing about an email, phone, card or ID document
Binding	none Amp charges nothing for the agent or the tokens, so the first thing that costs money is an Amp-hosted orb at the per-minute rate, never the conversation.
Interface	unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	this corpus already holds ampcode.com/docs/orbs/sizes-and-costs at USD 0.08 an hour for the smallest orb, so Amp Hobby plus a BYO key is a free agent whose only metered part is the machine; self-hosted orbs are free but need a runner the client does not own.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	dossier/compute/amp.json already records ampcode.com/docs/orbs/sizes-and-costs as an orbs pricing record with 'no free tier' in its free-tier field. Merge into amp.json rather than adding a second Amp record. The self-hosted-orb lane is the one line on this page that does not help for a user, because it needs a machine to host on.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	ampcode.com/pricing	the Hobby card reads pay-as-you-go for Amp-hosted orbs, unlimited self-hosted orbs free, BYOK and "No Amp token fees or limits", quoted
2026-10-22	ampcode.com/pricing	Individual is USD 20 a month and carries 45,000 minutes of orb time, which puts the included orb minute at about USD 0.00044 if the allowance is fully used

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "free-standing-agent",
  "free_tier_kind": "free-product",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": null
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated

Amp Orbs Compute

paidemail?card?Drequest-rate

ampcode.com/docs/orbs/sizes-and-costs · dev environment · compute/amp · JSON · compare

Free tier	no free tier: orbs bill by the minute from $0.08 an hour on the smallest size, and a paused orb costs nothing unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Egress	not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Limits	request-rate $0.08 an hour for `a1.tiny` at 1 CPU and 2 GB, rising to $2.13 an hour for `a1.3xlarge` source per-object-cap 60 GB of disk on every current orb size source not stated
Binding	request-rate
Interface	unknown
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	not stated
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence rung	documented the orb size and cost page was read on 2026-10-22 and publishes the size ladder and the pause rule. No free tier appears, so the record's verdict moves to paid-only, and the pause model is the axis answer
Checked	2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:request-rate 2.0 GB `$.limits[1].value` limit:per-object-cap 60.0 GB

Evidence (2)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	ampcode.com/docs/orbs/sizes-and-costs	not published
2026-10-22	ampcode.com/docs/orbs/sizes-and-costs	'Orb usage is billed by the minute. A paused orb costs nothing. Amp automatically pauses an orb when it is idle and pauses it right away when its thread is archived.' and 'An orb pauses when both of these are true: the agent has done no work for 5 minutes' and 'Every current orb size includes 60 GB of disk' with `a1.tiny` at $0.08 an hour, quoted

More fields (14)

{
 "talaria_m10h_usd": 71.0,
 "talaria_m24h_usd": 142.4,
 "nemo_m10h_usd": null,
 "keep_rate": 1.0,
 "keep_rate_basis": null,
 "billing_model": "unclassified",
 "shape": {
  "vcpu": 1,
  "ram": 2,
  "disk": 60,
  "gpu_class": null,
  "gpu_count": null,
  "note": "`a1.tiny`; the ladder runs to `a1.3xlarge` at 16 CPU, 44 GB and the same 60 GB disk"
 },
 "session_cap": {
  "wall_clock_min": null,
  "idle_reap_s": 300,
  "restart_required": false,
  "note": "auto-pause after 5 minutes with no agent work, and immediately when the thread is archived; a paused orb bills nothing and wakes on the next message"
 },
 "persistent_storage": null,
 "network_out": null,
 "price_note": null,
 "free_tier_kind": "none",
 "ps": {
  "gib": 60,
  "price": "included in the orb size",
  "durability": "orb disk",
  "on_stop": true,
  "on_destroy": false,
  "retention": "while the orb exists"
 },
 "net": null
}

Unknown or withheld values (17)

$.chaining not-stated
$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.evidence[0].proved process
$.extras.keep_rate_basis process
$.extras.price_note process
$.identity_cost.detail defaulted
$.identity_cost.kind identity-defaulted
$.interface interface-unknown
$.interface_detail withheld
$.limits_note not-stated
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-stated
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes not-extracted
$.retention.stated not-stated
$.tooling not-stated