Warp pairs an open-source, Rust-built terminal with the Warp Agent, a terminal-agnostic Agent CLI and Warp Factories for running fleets of coding agents across the software lifecycle. Paid plans meter AI usage in credits, and the Free plan relies on add-on credits or your own model keys.
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Warp is an open-source agentic development environment that pairs a modern, high-performance terminal with built-in agents for building, testing, deploying and debugging code. Its maker is Denver Technologies, Inc., doing business as Warp. The client is open source under AGPL v3, so teams can build, run and contribute to it directly.
The product line has three parts: Warp Terminal, the Warp Agent CLI for any terminal, and Warp Factories, which runs fleets of coding agents across the development lifecycle. Warp says over 800,000 developers and thousands of engineering teams use it.
An independent technology publication reported in August 2026 that Factories is built around the standard phases of software development (triage, specification, implementation, review and verification), any of which can be automated.
Model choice drives cost: smaller, faster models consume fewer credits than larger reasoning models, and credit usage generally tracks each model's API pricing.
In Warp's definition, a software factory is a fleet of agents wired to the development lifecycle, triggered by an issue, a Slack message or a schedule, and coordinated from triage through review to a mergeable PR.
Factories is a separate product: nobody at a company has to use Warp Terminal, and work arrives through Slack, Linear, Jira, GitHub and GitLab.
These examples come from Warp's own material, not independent measurement.
Warp can run first-pass review on every PR, enforcing team conventions and flagging common issues before human review. When a PR opens or updates, GitHub Actions launches an Oz run with the diff, changed files, branch metadata and the team's review standards, and agents leave inline findings with suggested fixes.
Warp takes a bug report, confirms whether it reproduces, narrows the failure to minimal reliable steps, captures evidence and routes the issue with enough context for an engineer. Runs can start from Linear or Slack.
Docker is presented as a customer that adopted Warp for a more user-friendly terminal and uses Warp Drive to streamline repetitive workflows. Notebooks can hold onboarding instructions, runbooks and commands, and Workflows parameterize commands so anyone can run them consistently.
Warp says most teams begin with a single low-risk workflow, such as dependency bumps or flaky test triage, before expanding coverage. Its own estimate is that most organizations start with around 20-30% of PRs fully automated, beginning with simple tasks.
Warp fits developers who spend much of the day in a terminal and want an AI terminal rather than a separate chat window or IDE plugin.
As captured on October 4, 2026, Warp holds a 4.8 rating based on 79 reviews on a third-party launch and review platform. Its AI-generated summary says reviewers mostly see Warp as a fast, modern terminal, with many saying it replaced Terminal, iTerm or even parts of tmux; the main complaints are forced login and the onboarding survey, plus clunky settings, hotkeys, autocomplete, subshell and TTY compatibility issues. Current installation documentation describes account creation as optional.
Warp is a weaker fit for people who want a minimal terminal with no AI layer, or who depend on unusual shells and TTY behavior.
Warp runs on macOS (Intel and Apple silicon), Windows (x86_64 and ARM64) and Linux (x86_64 and ARM64).
| Platform | Minimum requirements | Install options |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | macOS 10.14 or later on hardware that supports Metal | Homebrew cask or direct download |
| Windows | Windows 10 version 1903 or later, or Windows Server 2022 or later | .exe installer or winget |
| Linux | glibc 2.31 or later, with OpenGL ES 3.0+ or Vulkan support | .deb, .rpm, Arch .tar.zst package or AppImage |
Command-line installs use brew install --cask warp on macOS and winget install Warp.Warp on Windows.
Warp pricing starts with a $0 Free plan for developers who want the terminal plus the option to use Warp's AI or bring their own; paid plans add a monthly credit allowance for Warp-hosted AI and cloud runs.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Included credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | No bundled Warp Agent usage | Terminal, Agent CLI, bring your own inference |
| Build | from $20/month | 1,500 ($20 of agent usage at API rates) | Unlimited Warp Drive objects, private email support |
| Max | from $200/month | 18,000 (12× Build) | Everything in Build |
| Business | from $50/user/month | 1,500 per seat | Up to 25 seats, SAML SSO, team usage metrics, admin data controls |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom shared credit pools | Unlimited seats, BYOLLM, self-hosted cloud agents |
Annual billing, shown as 10% off, lowers the starting prices to $18 for Build, $180 for Max and $45 per user per month for Business.
| Credits | Price | Price per credit | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400 | $10 | $0.025 | Base rate |
| 1,000 | $20 | $0.020 | 20% off |
| 3,000 | $50 | $0.016 | ~35% off |
| 6,500 | $100 | $0.0153 | ~40% off |
Add-on credits go into a team-wide pool, roll over across billing cycles and stay valid for 12 months; the Free plan pays a higher rate for the same packs. Auto-reload is off by default; when enabled it buys a pack whenever the add-on balance drops below 100 credits, with a $200 monthly spend limit to start.
A monthly subscription bought by mistake is fully refundable within 24 hours of the charge if no credits were used; an annual one within 15 days, after which Warp refunds the remaining full months except the first. Add-on credits cannot be refunded once any of them has been used. Cancelled subscriptions stay active until the end of the monthly or yearly cycle. Warp does not currently offer student or non-profit discounts.
Factories is in early access: pay-as-you-go usage carries a 20% markup with no subscription, Build and Max plans can cover factory usage from included credits, and select teams get up to $10,000 of usage during early access.
Comparisons fall into two camps: terminal coding agents and conventional terminal emulators.
Warp has Zero Data Retention agreements with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI and Fireworks AI, under which those providers commit not to train on customer data processed through Warp and to delete inputs and outputs within a fixed period. Warp reports a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation from an accredited third party. Warp Drive data is stored on Google Cloud servers in the United States, encrypted in transit and at rest.
Telemetry must be enabled to use AI on the Free plan, while paid plans can opt out and keep using AI. Unless "Help improve Warp" is turned off, Warp may collect AI interactions and console inputs. Business and Enterprise plans fall under a ZDR agreement in which no AI interaction or console data is collected. Any user can enable full ZDR for an account by disabling Help improve Warp, and Business and Enterprise admins can enforce ZDR for all members.
Warp's statements on its own model training are inconsistent. The enterprise FAQ says code and prompts are never used for training. The privacy policy lists training, fine-tuning and improving the models behind Warp's AI features among uses of personal information. The terms of service grant Warp the right to use data, including customer data, to train its algorithms and models through machine learning.
Secret Redaction applies to all AI interactions, and a native Network Log shows telemetry in real time. Active AI can be turned off with one toggle; Prompt Suggestions send the most recent terminal block to an LLM.
The terminal and Agent CLI are free on the $0 plan. Using the Warp Agent with Warp-provided models needs a paid plan, add-on credits or your own API key.
Not for the terminal; sign-up can be skipped. AI features, however, are tied to a Warp account.
Yes, the Warp client is open source under AGPL v3.
Yes. BYOK works on every plan for individuals and organizations with up to 10 employees, and cloud runs can go to Claude Code or Codex.
Contracted model providers commit not to. Warp's own pages differ: the enterprise FAQ rules training out, while the privacy policy and terms reserve training rights.
