Sourcegraph Amp vs Aider

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Sourcegraph Amp

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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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Custom

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AI Coding

Terminal-based AI pair programmer that edits your repo and commits changes via git — the Unix-philosophy alternative to GUI AI IDEs.

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Free

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Feature	Sourcegraph Amp	Aider
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing Plans	98 tiers	14 tiers
Starting Price		Free
Key Features	• Frontier-model agent grounded in Sourcegraph's code graph • Monorepo-scale code intelligence: references, call sites, dependencies • Shared threads between VS Code and CLI	• Terminal-based AI pair programming • Direct file editing with Git auto-commits • Multi-model support (Claude, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, local)

✓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.

✓Free and open source under Apache 2.0 — no platform markup, you pay only the underlying model APIs
✓Top-of-leaderboard accuracy on SWE-bench Verified thanks to strict diff-edit format
✓Works with any LLM, including fully local models via Ollama, so you can use Aider air-gapped
✓Every change becomes a git commit — rollback is `git revert`, history is your AI audit log
✓Architect/editor mode lets you mix expensive reasoning models with cheap edit models
✓No IDE lock-in — runs in any terminal, plays well with tmux, vim, neovim, emacs

✗Terminal UX has a learning curve compared to GUI tools like Cursor or Windsurf
✗No real-time autocomplete — Aider is conversational, not completion-style
✗Web browser tools and screenshot uploads require manual paste, not native capture
✗On very large monorepos the repo map step can be slow on first run

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