# Amp — 50% Faster Search Agent

- Company: Amp (ampcode.com)
- Announced: 2025-10-21
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://ampcode.com/news/faster-search-agent
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7796-50-faster-search-agent
- Subject: Amp
- Models affected: Haiku 4.5

Amp replaced the model powering its search subagent with Haiku 4.5, resulting in a 50% speedup and approximately 3X lower cost with no noticeable quality loss.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://ampcode.com/news/faster-search-agent:

> We switched the model powering the finder subagent to Haiku 4.5. In our evaluations and usage, this resulted in an approximate 50% speedup with no noticeable loss in quality.

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