Warp
A cross-platform terminal and Agentic Development Environment whose Oz platform runs interactive agents locally and autonomous agents in the cloud, with BYO models, SSO, and Zero Data Retention on paid team tiers.
TLDR
Decision summary
Try: Worth piloting when a team wants one cross-platform terminal that also orchestrates local and cloud agents under shared permissions and audit, but budget the credit-metered usage deliberately and confirm which data protections apply to your specific plan.
Best use
- Terminal-native agent sessions
- Cloud agent orchestration
Skip or wait if
- Teams that need flat per-seat AI cost rather than credit-metered agent usage
- Free-plan users who must keep telemetry disabled, since telemetry must be enabled to use AI features on Free
- Pricing posture
- Build at $20/month, or $18/month billed annually, including 1,500 credits described as $20 of agent usage at API rates
- Privacy/security
- Medium: Warp documents SOC 2 Type II certification, unconditional secret redaction in AI interactions, an open-source client under AGPL v3, and a Zero Data Retention agreement covering Business and Enterprise plans, with SSO, role-based access control, and BYO inference available to teams.
- Main caveat
- Zero Data Retention is documented as covering Business and Enterprise plans, where no AI interaction or console data is collected; individual Free, Build, and Max plans are not described as covered.
- Last updated
- 2026-07-18
- Source checked
- 2026-07-18
- Pricing checked
- 2026-07-18
- Security checked
- 2026-07-18
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Why this verdict, in short
How we weigh verdicts- Workflow fit
- Owns a defined workflow stepBest for Terminal-native agent sessions, Cloud and scheduled agent runs, Team agent governance and audit.
- Cost posture
- Free tier to prove value firstBuild at $20/month, or $18/month billed annually, including 1,500 credits described as $20 of agent usage at API rates
- Privacy and admin risk
- Medium privacy/admin riskWarp documents SOC 2 Type II certification, unconditional secret redaction in AI interactions, an open-source client under AGPL v3, and a Zero Data Retention agreement covering Business and Enterprise plans, with SSO, role-based access control, and BYO inference available to teams.
- Source confidence
- Pricing and security are source-backedPricing checked 2026-07-18; security checked 2026-07-18.
- Avoid-for-now risk
- Main boundaryTeams that need flat per-seat AI cost rather than credit-metered agent usage
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Pricing
Warp's published pricing on 2026-07-18 is credit-metered rather than flat per-seat: Free ($0), Build ($20/month or $18/month annual, 1,500 credits), Max ($200/month or $180/month annual, 18,000 credits described as 12x Build's included usage), Business ($50 per user/month or $45 annual, up to 25 seats, 1,500 credits per seat, team usage metrics and SAML SSO), and custom-quoted Enterprise (unlimited seats, custom credit pools, self-hosted cloud agents). Paid tiers include reload credits with volume discounts and auto-reload, so model your real agent usage before comparing headline seat prices.
- Free plan
- Free tier at $0/month with core terminal features, bring-your-own AI inference, and limited cloud agent access
- Starting price
- Build at $20/month, or $18/month billed annually, including 1,500 credits described as $20 of agent usage at API rates
Pricing checked 2026-07-18
Decision fit
Best for
- Terminal-native agent sessions
- Cloud agent orchestration
- Mixed macOS, Linux, and Windows teams
- Teams needing SSO and audit controls
Not good for
- Teams that need flat per-seat AI cost rather than credit-metered agent usage
- Free-plan users who must keep telemetry disabled, since telemetry must be enabled to use AI features on Free
- Buyers expecting Zero Data Retention below the Business and Enterprise plans
- Teams that only want branch isolation and do not need a terminal or cloud orchestration layer
Workflow fit
- Terminal-native agent sessions
- Cloud and scheduled agent runs
- Team agent governance and audit
- Multi-model and BYO inference routing
Alternatives
Deep evidence
Source review
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Pricing and plan posture
Warp's published pricing on 2026-07-18 is credit-metered rather than flat per-seat: Free ($0), Build ($20/month or $18/month annual, 1,500 credits), Max ($200/month or $180/month annual, 18,000 credits described as 12x Build's included usage), Business ($50 per user/month or $45 annual, up to 25 seats, 1,500 credits per seat, team usage metrics and SAML SSO), and custom-quoted Enterprise (unlimited seats, custom credit pools, self-hosted cloud agents). Paid tiers include reload credits with volume discounts and auto-reload, so model your real agent usage before comparing headline seat prices.
Security and admin posture
Warp documents SOC 2 Type II certification, unconditional secret redaction in AI interactions, an open-source client under AGPL v3, and a Zero Data Retention agreement covering Business and Enterprise plans, with SSO, role-based access control, and BYO inference available to teams.
Privacy, terms, and data handling
Warp positions itself as an Agentic Development Environment built out of the terminal, combining the Warp Terminal, its own Warp Agent harness, and the Oz platform for local and cloud agent orchestration.
Product capability and workflow fit
A cross-platform terminal and Agentic Development Environment whose Oz platform runs interactive agents locally and autonomous agents in the cloud, with BYO models, SSO, and Zero Data Retention on paid team tiers.
Pricing docs
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Product docs
- Warp positions itself as an Agentic Development Environment built out of the terminal, combining the Warp Terminal, its own Warp Agent harness, and the Oz platform for local and cloud agent orchestration.
- Oz is documented as running interactive agents locally inside Warp and autonomous agents in the cloud, reachable through an Oz CLI, API and SDK, and web app, and it supports external harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.
- Platform support reviewed 2026-07-18 covers macOS 10.14+, Linux (.deb, .rpm, .tar.zst, AppImage on x64 and ARM64), and Windows 11/10 on x64 and ARM64.
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