Cursor vs Sourcegraph Amp

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AI Development Assistants

AI-first code editor with autonomous coding capabilities. Understands your codebase and writes code collaboratively with you.

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Free

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AI Coding

Sourcegraph Amp is Sourcegraph's frontier-model coding agent built for monorepos, with live access to the Sourcegraph code graph and MCP support.

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Pay-as-you-go

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Feature	Cursor	Sourcegraph Amp
Category	AI Development Assistants	AI Coding
Pricing Plans	4 listed plans	3 listed plans
Starting Price	Free	Pay-as-you-go
Key Features	Feature details unavailable	• Frontier-model agent grounded in Sourcegraph's code graph • Monorepo-scale code intelligence: references, call sites, dependencies • Shared threads between VS Code and CLI

✓Deep codebase indexing means AI suggestions and agent actions reference real code across the entire repository, not just the open file
✓Tab autocomplete predicts multi-line and multi-file edits with unusually high accuracy, often catching the developer's next intent
✓Agents can run in the editor, cloud, CLI, or mobile, so long tasks don't block local work and can be checked in from anywhere
✓Built on VS Code, so existing extensions, keybindings, themes, and muscle memory transfer with almost no learning curve
✓Cursor Rules let teams encode conventions and architectural constraints that the AI follows consistently across the codebase
✓Access to frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI with per-task model switching and automatic routing

✗Heavy AI usage burns through monthly request quotas quickly, pushing many serious users toward higher-tier plans
✗Performance can degrade on very large monorepos during initial indexing or when many parallel agents are running
✗Being a VS Code fork means it lags slightly behind upstream VS Code releases and occasionally breaks niche extensions
✗Agent autonomy can produce confidently wrong multi-file changes that are tedious to unwind without disciplined version control
✗Privacy-conscious teams must explicitly enable privacy mode and review enterprise terms before sending proprietary code to model providers

✓Monorepo code-graph grounding beats embedding-only competitors on large repos.
✓Pass-through token pricing rewards heavy use instead of capping it.
✓Shared threads across VS Code and CLI match how senior engineers actually work.

✗No managed model — you bring API keys, which is friction for team buyers.
✗VS Code extension is newer and less polished than the established Cody extension.
✗CLI is powerful but documentation still lags the product roadmap.

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