# Amp — Size the Orbs of Production!

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-07
- Category: pricing-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/size-the-orbs-of-production
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7717-size-the-orbs-of-production
- Subject: Amp
- Pricing: We cut orb prices by 20% for everyone.

Amp announced a 20% price cut on orbs, introduced a new a1.medium size, reduced auto-pause time from 15 to 5 minutes, sped up startup times, and allowed per-thread orb size selection. The new pricing tier includes sizes from a1.tiny at $0.08/hour to a1.xxlarge at $1.32/hour.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ampcode.com/news/size-the-orbs-of-production:

> We cut orb prices by 20% for everyone .
> 
> This week, we shipped a lot more improvements.
> 
> We added a new a1.medium size with 4 CPUs and 8 GB of memory. It is 50% cheaper and a better fit for most projects than the previous a0.medium .
> 
> Orbs now auto-pause after 5 minutes of inactivity, down from 15 minutes.
> 
> We've sped up orb startup time considerably, especially when another team member has recently created an orb in the same Amp project.
> 
> You can now choose which orb size to use per-thread, so you can pick a smaller default to save money but go big for especially resource-intensive work.

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