Amp vs Herdr (2026): Which Vibe Coding App Is Better?

Both are popular terminal coding agents. Here is how Amp and Herdr stack up on price, strengths and weaknesses, and which one we would pick.

Amp

Frontier coding agent for the terminal and editor, from the makers of Sourcegraph

8.2 /10

Pricing: Free plan, paid from $20/mo

Pros

Strong results on hard, multi-step tasks
Shared threads for team review
Subagents and AGENTS.md built in

Cons

Usage-based costs add up on large tasks
Fewer configuration knobs by design

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Herdr

Persistent terminal runtime that hosts Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other coding agents

7.5 /10

Pricing: Open source

Pros

Single Rust binary, no Electron — a lightweight, cross-platform runtime rather than another agent wrapper
Persists agent sessions across disconnects/restarts and unifies local plus remote SSH machines in one window
Explicitly documented to work with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, and Grok, with per-pane working/blocked/idle status

Cons

It's a session host/multiplexer, not a coding agent itself — you still need one of the supported agents to actually write code
It is genuinely a runtime/host for terminal agents rather than a coding agent in its own right, so "terminal-agents" is the closest fit among the given categori

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Amp vs Herdr at a glance

	Amp	Herdr
Editor score	8.2 / 10	7.5 / 10
Pricing model	Freemium	Open source
Starting price	$20/mo	Free
Reader upvotes	0	0
Best for	terminal, agent	terminal, rust, session-persistence
Agent Skills support	Yes	No
Subagents support	Yes	No
MCP support	Yes	No
AGENTS.md support	Yes	No
Plugins support	Yes	No
Hooks support	No	No
Rules support	No	No
Agent skills in this directory	47	0
Subagents & agents in this directory	9	3
MCP servers in this directory	72	0

Our pick

Amp edges it with a score of 8.2 versus 7.5. Amp is the better fit if you value: strong results on hard, multi-step tasks, shared threads for team review. Choose Herdr instead if you need: single rust binary, no electron — a lightweight, cross-platform runtime rather than another agent wrapper, persists agent sessions across disconnects/restarts and unifies local plus remote ssh machines in one window.