Warp
Also known as: Warp Oz
Agentic development environment born out of the terminal, pairing an open-source Rust client with Oz cloud agents and Warp Factories, which runs fleets of coding agents across the SDLC defined as code, on any model or harness, with approval gates and per-tool-call audit trails.
Warp is an agentic development environment that grew out of the terminal. Built from scratch in Rust for speed, it began as a modern, GPU-accelerated terminal and has been rebuilt around AI agents, on the premise that a large share of real engineering work, from DevOps and deployment to debugging and data operations, happens in a shell rather than an editor and deserves first-class agent support there. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and on 28 April 2026 Warp open-sourced its core client under dual MIT and AGPL v3 licensing, with OpenAI as flagship sponsor of the repository.
The terminal's defining idea is the block. Every command produces a self-contained block holding the command, its output, exit code and duration, which you can select, filter, bookmark and share rather than scrolling through a wall of text. On top of this sits a rich, IDE-like input with completions, syntax highlighting and next-command prediction.
Warp now sells three products. Warp Terminal is the client. Warp Agent CLI is a coding agent that runs in any terminal. Warp Factories, in closed early access, is open infrastructure for building a cloud software factory: a fleet of agents wired to the SDLC, defined as code in a factory.yaml that names repositories, agents, models, permissions and checkpoints. A foreman agent moves each task down a six-stage line — triage, spec, implement, verify, ship, monitor — stopping at whichever human gates the team configures, with the vendor's stated position that merge is always yours.
Warp is deliberately unopinionated about what runs underneath. Customers pick among Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.2, Kimi K3 and others, run different tasks on different models in parallel, bring their own API keys on Business, or route inference through their own cloud on Enterprise. External CLI agents including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Gemini CLI run inside the same environment, and any MCP-capable agent can drive a factory.
A shared layer called Warp Drive stores workflows, prompts, rules and MCP configuration centrally so every engineer and agent works from the same conventions, and a published Agent Kits gallery offers pre-built agent packages across engineering, growth, sales, recruiting, research and trust and safety, each with its own trigger, skill file, model and integrations.
For teams, Warp documents a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation with a trust center, SAML SSO, enforced single sign-on and domain verification, zero data retention with contracted model providers, an autonomy dial running from approving every step to full autonomy, per-agent non-human identities with fine-grained permissions, and audit trails at the level of individual tool calls. Enterprises can self-host cloud agents and factory workers on their own infrastructure. Its bet is that the terminal, not the editor, is the natural home for agentic engineering work — and increasingly that the interesting unit is not one agent but a managed fleet of them.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.warp.dev
Category
Coding agent
Funding status
Independent. Founded by Zach Lloyd, former principal engineer on Google Sheets and the Google Docs suite, and based in New York. Backed by Sequoia Capital, GV, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff and Dylan Field. Reports roughly 800,000 to one million developers, customers including Docker, Ramp, Peloton, Asana, GitHub, NVIDIA, VMware, Amplitude and Teamworks, and over half of the Fortune 500. Core client open-sourced 28 April 2026 under dual MIT and AGPL v3 licensing, with OpenAI as flagship sponsor of the repository; roughly 65k GitHub stars.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Agents are summoned from Slack, Linear and GitHub by mentioning @Warp to investigate bugs, suggest fixes or open pull requests, with real-time session links and shared visibility. Warp Factories adds Teams, Jira and GitLab, source-forge integration, event webhooks with signature verification, a cron scheduler, and MCP server connection management. Warp both ships an MCP server (warp-factory, accepting calls such as send_task) and consumes MCP servers. A REST API at app.warp.dev/api/v1/agent/runs, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI drive agent runs programmatically. Published Agent Kits demonstrate tool calling across HubSpot, Stripe, Intercom, Metabase, BigQuery, Notion, Mintlify, Sentry, Apollo, Grain, Exa and Octolens.
In practice
Your day is DevOps and debugging in a shell, not feature work in an editor. Warp's Agent Mode runs multi-step plans right in the terminal, chaining commands, reading the output, and fixing its own mistakes as it goes.
A long terminal session has buried the one stack trace you need. Warp groups every command into a block with its output and exit code, so you select, filter, or share just that result instead of scrolling.
You want a flaky test fixed without anyone at the keyboard. A Warp Cloud Agent triggers on the CI failure, pulls the stack trace, proposes a fix, and opens a pull request, recording every step for audit.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
13.0 / 14 capabilities · 93%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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Warp connects to Slack, Linear and GitHub so an agent can be summoned by mentioning @Warp inside those tools to investigate bugs, suggest fixes or open pull requests, and Factories adds Teams, Jira, GitLab and source forge integration plus MCP server connection management; the published Agent Kits show tool calling across CRM, billing, support, analytics, documentation, monitoring and search classes including HubSpot, Stripe, Intercom, Metabase, BigQuery, Notion, Mintlify, Sentry, Apollo, Grain, Exa and Octolens, and agents run arbitrary CLI tooling inside their sandbox. Sourcewarp.dev/pricing integrations section, warp.dev/factories and warp.dev/agent-kitsread 2026-08-30 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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Multi-agent orchestration on the generally available Automation Platform lets a parent agent spawn and coordinate child agents across local and cloud runs, for supervisor and worker, fan-out, critic, DAG and swarm workflows, started from the Warp app, the Oz CLI, the Oz web app or the Oz API and SDK, with parent and child conversations and artifacts inspectable; local and cloud agents hand work off to each other. Warp Factories, in early access, adds a six stage factory line defined in factory.yaml. Sourcedocs.warp.dev platform orchestrationread 2026-09-29 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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Codebase Context semantically indexes a repository's Git-tracked files so agents can retrieve relevant code, and it applies the same way in the app, the CLI and cloud runs; paid plans carry the highest indexing limits and Enterprise adds custom codebase indexing. Warp Drive stores team workflows, prompts and rules, and MCP servers connect external sources per agent. Sourcedocs.warp.dev agents capabilities (Codebase Context) and warp.dev/pricingread 2026-09-29 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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The vendor states customers control exactly how much autonomy agents have, from approving every step to allowing full autonomy, configurable at individual and enterprise level; in Factories the line stops wherever the customer decides with named gates for spec approval, code review and QA, the vendor states merge is always yours, and the platform documents approval gate enforcement before merge, checkpoint pause and resume state, fine grained permissions per agent, network egress policy enforcement and centrally managed permissions with centrally configured agent access. Sourcewarp.dev/pricing privacy section, warp.dev/factories and warp.dev/enterpriseread 2026-08-30 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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SOC 2 Type 2 attestation obtained from an accredited third party with the report requestable through a Trust Center, SAML based SSO on Business and enforced single sign on through a provider such as Okta plus domain verification on Enterprise, AES 256 or higher at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, Zero Data Retention with all contracted LLM providers so no customer data is retained, stored or used for training, admin enforceable telemetry, AI and secret redaction controls, and in Factories a non human identity per agent with fine grained permissions, secrets storage and rotation, credential handling and network egress policy enforcement. Sourcewarp.dev/legal/security and warp.dev/pricingread 2026-08-30 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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Every generally available cloud agent run keeps a persistent record with status, metadata, cost and a session transcript covering the prompt, plan, commands, logs, files changed, outputs and follow-up messages; the Runs page in the Oz web app finds runs by source, status, trigger or owner, opens the transcript and shares it for review, and the control plane records run history. Enterprise adds an Analytics API and the client offers a Network Log. Sourcedocs.warp.dev platform (Viewing cloud agent runs, Platform architecture) and warp.dev/pricingread 2026-09-29 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Partial |
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Agent Memory is a persistent store on Warp that agents read from and write to across harnesses (Warp Agent, Claude Code, Codex), attachable to agents read-only or read-write, so facts, decisions and outcomes carry from one conversation to the next. Shipped today: cloud conversation storage, Warp Drive objects and run continuity. Agent Memory is in research preview, enabled per team for design partners through a waitlist. Sourcedocs.warp.dev agents (Agent Memory, research preview) and warp.dev/pricingread 2026-09-29 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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Enterprise plans document self hosted cloud agents on the customer's own infrastructure and inference routed through the customer's own cloud, Factories offers Warp's cloud or fully self hosted inside the customer's own VPC under their existing retention and compliance rules with self hosted workers and the customer's own code forge for factory config, compute is Docker or Kubernetes backed with per run sandbox provisioning, and the client itself is a native application for macOS, Windows and Linux whose source is public under MIT and AGPL. The hosted SaaS path stores Warp Drive and account data on Google Cloud Platform with database locations in the United States and no region selection offered. Sourcewarp.dev/pricing, warp.dev/factories and warp.dev/legal/securityread 2026-08-30 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Full |
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Agent Kits is a published gallery of pre built agent packages described as one click to deploy with full control to customize, cataloged across Growth, Sales, Recruiting, Research, Risk Trust and Safety, and Engineering, each shipping a named trigger, a skill file, a default model and its integrations, including Conversion Ratio Optimization, Churn Intervention, Documentation, Social Monitoring, Go to Market, Account Status, POC, Recruiting Sourcing, Competitive Intelligence, Fraud Detection and Client Release agents; Warp Drive additionally stores reusable workflows, prompts and rules as unlimited objects on paid plans, and factory.yaml defines reusable agent types such as FOREMAN and REVIEW as code. Sourcewarp.dev/agent-kits and warp.dev/factoriesread 2026-08-30 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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On the generally available Automation Platform a trigger is anything that starts a cloud agent without anyone typing a prompt: Scheduled Agents run on a cron schedule (oz schedule create), GitHub Actions and other CI events start runs, Slack, Linear and Jira integrations pick up work, and the Oz API starts runs programmatically. The terminal, CLI, web app and IDE surfaces cover invoked runs. Warp Factories, in early access, adds further webhooks. Sourcedocs.warp.dev platform triggers (Triggers overview, Scheduled Agents, GitHub Actions)read 2026-09-29 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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A model picker exposes Fable 5, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro, GLM 5.2, Kimi K3 and others with an Auto option, and the customer can run different tasks on different models in parallel or switch model mid task; Business adds bring your own API keys and custom inference endpoints, Enterprise routes inference through the customer's own cloud as BYOLLM at no credit cost, Factories sets a default model per factory and overrides it per agent in factory.yaml giving model routing per pipeline stage, and the vendor states customers may bring their own model or harness rather than using Warp's. Sourcewarp.dev/pricing models section and warp.dev/factoriesread 2026-08-30 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A REST API at app.warp.dev/api/v1/agent/runs accepts a prompt with bearer token authentication and returns a run id and state, a TypeScript SDK exposes client.agent.run, a CLI runs warp agent run-cloud against a named environment, and a warp-factory MCP server accepts tool calls such as send_task against a factory uid; Warp also consumes MCP servers with connection management, ships webhook signature verification, a settings file allowing users and agents to configure Warp programmatically and sync setups across environments, an Enterprise Analytics API, and a client whose source is public on GitHub under MIT and AGPL with docs published as an open repository. Sourcewarp.dev/factories and docs.warp.devread 2026-08-30 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Partial |
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Evaluation lives inside Warp Factories, which is in closed early access by application: evals run on the customer's own work with a pass rate tracked over time, benchmarks comparing models against each other on the customer's tasks with relative score and cost per run, benchmark regression detection, an evals and scoring pipeline where every run is scored, self improvement loops in which observer agents open pull requests against the factory config, and insights including cost per pull request and automation rate. No evaluation, benchmarking or regression surface is documented for the generally available terminal, Agent CLI or cloud agents. Sourcewarp.dev/factories quality loop sectionread 2026-08-30 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Full |
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Computer Use is documented for generally available cloud agents: in a sandboxed cloud desktop the agent takes screenshots, records annotated video, clicks, drags, types and uses keyboard shortcuts to test UI changes, enabled per run with --computer-use in the Oz CLI, the computer_use_enabled field in the Oz API (default on for Warp's built-in environments) or a toggle in the Oz web app, with screenshots and videos attached to pull requests. The desktop ships with the platform. Sourcedocs.warp.dev agents capabilities (Computer Use)read 2026-09-29 |
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Pricing
Free · Build $20/mo
hybrid
Included quota
Free: terminal fully free plus a small AI allowance (150 credits/mo for the first two months, then 75/mo). Build ($20): 1,500 credits/mo, BYOK, collaboration.
What is public
Warp is a Rust-built agentic terminal with parallel AI agents, now sold alongside Warp Agent CLI and Warp Factories. The terminal itself is free on all platforms; AI features are the paid layer. Tiers: Free $0, Build $20/mo ($18 annual), Max $200/mo ($180 annual), Business $50/user/mo ($45 annual, up to 25 seats), Enterprise custom. All four self-serve tier prices are published; only Enterprise is quote-based.
Billing mechanics
Subscription plus a metered AI-credit model. Paid plans include a monthly credit allowance (Build ~1,500); credits power agent runs, generation, and multi-agent workflows. BYOK (OpenAI/Anthropic/Google) routes inference to your own key. Add-on reload credits roll over 12 months.
Cost watchouts
Agent-heavy use burns the 1,500 Build credits fast. Platform-credit billing took effect 1 July 2026 and now applies to cloud agent runs, and to BYOK/local runs on Business. Warp Factories is billed separately as usage-based per agent run, at a 20% markup on pay-as-you-go; factory usage draws on plan credits at API rates on Build and above.
Variable cost rationale
Flat $20 entry but real credit-burn on agentic work, plus platform credits now live since 1 July 2026 and separate usage-based billing for Factories, make heavy-use spend hard to predict.
Additional watchouts
Platform-credit billing on self-serve plans began 1 July 2026, following a no-charge preview window that ran 21 May to 30 June; that transition is now complete and in force. Warp Factories is in closed Early Access by application, priced usage-based per agent run, with select teams receiving up to $10,000 in factory usage. Cross-harness agent memory is labeled Research Preview on Enterprise.
Overage / add-ons
Beyond the monthly credit allowance, buy add-on reload credits (up to ~50% cheaper than old overages) or enable auto-reload with a spend cap; BYOK avoids Warp inference credits but may still draw platform credits from July 1.
Sales call required
No, self serve available
Free / trial
Free tier
Lowest paid plan
Build $20/mo
Commercial notes
The terminal is free on all platforms; only AI features are paid. Build ($20) includes 1,500 credits and the highest codebase indexing limits. Max ($200) is 12x Build's included usage. Business ($50/user) adds SAML-based SSO, team usage metrics, admin-configurable data controls, and bring-your-own API keys with custom inference endpoints, up to 25 seats. Enterprise adds unlimited seats, BYOLLM inference through the customer's own cloud, self-hosted cloud agents on customer infrastructure, an Enterprise Analytics API, multi-admin support and cross-harness agent memory (Research Preview).
Key ambiguities
Warp restructured pricing in late 2025/2026 (collapsing prior Pro/Turbo/Lightspeed tiers into Build); some third-party sources still list stale tiers. Exact credit cost per agent action and the platform-credit rates now in force are still not fully published, and Factories pricing is expressed only as relative markup and API rates rather than absolute figures.
Cancellation / refund
Monthly or annual; refund window 24h monthly / 15 days annual if no credits used; add-on credits valid 12 months with an active subscription.
Missing data
Exact credit cost per agent action, the platform-credit rates in force since 1 July 2026, and absolute pricing for Warp Factories agent runs are not published.
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Alternatives to Warp
The closest documented capability profiles to Warp among coding agents tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.
- Cognition13.0 / 14Matches Warp across all 14 documented capabilities
- Cursor12.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Warp
- Factory12.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Warp
- GitHub Copilot13.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Memory & State Persistence
- Google Antigravity12.5 / 14A lighter documented profile than Warp
- Augment Code12.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than Warp
Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded