Hands-on test · October 13-14, 2026

Rondar vs Amp

Both finished all seven tasks with correct results. Rondar was faster on tasks 1–6, and it was the only one that could combine four pull requests into one release.

The two products ran on different machines, so the times say as much about the machine as about the product.

Task Rondar Amp · minutes

1. App running

9.0 setup 8, first preview 0.5 17.5

2. Footer date

3.8 8.5

3. Paging bug

1.2 3.5

4. Corrections form

10.0 asked one question 15.5 decided alone

5. Three tasks at once (slowest)

4.7 9.0

6. Correction after review

4.3 6.0

7. Change on main

~1 first Merge press failed <2 one press of Ship

8. Release of several changes

9.0 4 PRs combined, checks run, merged Not offered

Preview of the running app: Both · Amp always on
Pull request per session: Rondar, by itself
Price: Amp has a free plan · Rondar from $20

How to read these results

The machines were not the same, so a coding time says more about the machine than about the product.

Only Rondar had real GitHub checks turned on. They failed on main for a reason that had nothing to do with the tasks, so Rondar repaired that failure inside every pull request. That added minutes to Rondar's times.

Only Rondar ran task 8, because Amp and T3 Code do not offer a release of several changes.

Where Amp is better

Amp has a free plan. Rondar has no free plan: an invitation gives a free pilot, and after the pilot the plans start at $20 a month.
Anyone can sign up for Amp today, while Rondar is in an invite-only alpha.
Amp has recurring tasks and coordination across projects. It also works in more clients than Rondar and has more features for people who work on the same code together.
In Amp, you could click through the app from the start. In Rondar, project setup took 8 minutes before Rondar could run the app the first time, and starting it then took 30 seconds.
In task 7, Amp put the change on main with one press of Ship. Rondar's first press of Merge failed, and the step took about a minute in total.

How we tested

Tested on October 13-14, 2026. The same seven tasks ran on a private copy of a real Rails-style web app with one planted paging bug, with the same prompt text for each product.

Amp used its own agent in "medium" mode on Amp's hosted machine. Rondar used Claude Opus 5.5 on Rondar's production servers, with 1.5 CPU and 4 GB per session.

Prices and features of Amp come from this test and from its official site. See Amp pricing and Rondar pricing.