Amp August 7, 2026 Changelog
What changed in Amp coding agent August 7, 2026, released 2026-08-07 — explained in plain English.
- New orb sizes with lower prices, including a new mid-tier option that's 50% cheaper than before.
- Orbs now auto-pause after 5 minutes of inactivity (down from 15), so you waste less money on idle time.
- You can pick different orb sizes per task—small for simple stuff, big for heavy lifting.
- Faster startup, especially when a teammate recently used an orb in the same project.
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This release is all about making orbs (Amp's cloud compute units that run your code) cheaper and more flexible as people use them more. It matters most to teams watching their budget and anyone running lots of tasks at once.
What's new
- New a1.medium orb size with 4 CPUs and 8 GB of memory. It costs half what the old a0.medium did and fits most projects better.
- Per-thread orb sizing. You can now use a small orb by default to save money, but spin up a bigger one for tasks that need more power.
--orb-sizeflag in the Amp CLI (the command-line tool). When you runamp -ox '...', you can add this flag to pick the orb size for that thread instead of using the project's default.- Agent-controlled orb sizes. When you ask Amp's AI agent to create extra threads, you can tell it to use smaller or larger orbs—handy for simple fan-out tasks (where one job splits into many smaller parallel jobs).
Improvements
- Faster orb startup. Orbs launch noticeably quicker now, especially if a teammate recently created an orb in the same Amp project.
- Lower inactivity timeout. Orbs auto-pause after 5 minutes of no activity, down from 15. Less wasted money when you step away.
- Price cuts across the board. Every orb size now costs the same or less than before. The full lineup:
- a1.tiny: 1 CPU · 2 GB memory · $0.08/hour
- a1.small: 2 CPUs · 4 GB memory · $0.17/hour
- a1.medium: 4 CPUs · 8 GB memory · $0.33/hour
- a1.large: 8 CPUs · 16 GB memory · $0.66/hour
- a1.xxlarge: 16 CPUs · 32 GB memory · $1.32/hour
- Automatic project upgrades. Existing projects got moved to the closest matching new orb size. You can change this in your web project settings or by asking Amp through the
amp projectssubcommands.
Fixes
Nothing specific bugs were mentioned as fixed in this release.
Breaking changes
No breaking changes in this release.
How to upgrade
Update to Amp August 7, 2026 by running:
npm install -g @ampcode/cliThis is our plain-language summary. Read the complete, official notes on the Amp official changelog ↗.
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