Sourcegraph Amp vs Cline

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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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AI Coding

Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code — plans, edits, runs commands and uses MCP tools with explicit human-in-the-loop approval.

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Feature	Sourcegraph Amp	Cline
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing Plans	98 tiers	33 tiers
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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	• Open-source coding agent runtime for VS Code, CLI, and SDK embedding • Bring-your-own-key support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other model providers • MCP Marketplace for connecting agent tools and context

✓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, open source, and the most-installed AI agent on the VS Code marketplace
✓Plan/Act + per-step approvals make it safe to let an agent touch a production repo
✓BYO keys mean no platform markup — you pay model providers directly at cost
✓Built-in MCP marketplace makes tool integration almost zero-config
✓Works with frontier hosted models or fully local LLMs via Ollama for air-gapped use
✓Checkpoints provide an undo button independent of git for safe experimentation

✗Token usage can be high on long agent loops — easy to burn through Claude credits if you don't watch context
✗Plan/Act paradigm has a learning curve compared to Copilot-style autocomplete
✗Some advanced features (browser automation, MCP) need extra setup beyond install
✗VS Code-only (no JetBrains support yet)

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