Tool Introduction

Warp was founded in June 2020 by Zach Lloyd, a former Principal Engineer at Google and interim CTO at TIME, and is headquartered in New York, New York. The company began as a from-scratch, Rust-native rewrite of the command-line terminal after an initial Electron prototype was abandoned for performance reasons.

The first terminal shipped in 2020, Warp AI arrived in April 2023, and Warp Drive followed in June 2023. On April 28, 2026, Warp open-sourced its terminal emulator and the Oz orchestration platform with financial support from OpenAI.

Demo Available?

Warp offers a sales-demo request form for teams evaluating Warp Enterprise, plus a Contact Sales page. Individuals evaluate through the perpetual Free plan.

Tool's Accuracy

Warp's coding-agent component aims to autonomously resolve real software engineering issues and complete terminal-rooted tasks correctly and independently, producing a working, verifiable patch without human intervention.

SWE-bench Verified: a single-agent system on GPT-5 with a best@k wrapper that proposes candidate patches and selects the most promising one scored 75.8%, up from an earlier reported 71%, per Warp's official blog dated September 1, 2025.
Terminal-Bench v0.1.1: Warp succeeded on 52% of terminal-rooted, multi-step tasks, which it stated was state-of-the-art at the time, about 9 percentage points ahead of the next-best submission.
Evaluation harness: the SWE-bench run used a custom harness that launched and controlled the actual Warp desktop application, submitting each benchmark instance as a user prompt.

Aggregate Rating

3.5/5 stars (based on 50+ verified reviews across the internet)

Detailed Overview

What Warp Does

Warp collapses running commands, debugging, and writing code into a single window. Summoned inline, a natural-language agent explains why a command failed, walks a user through a migration step by step, and edits code in a built-in editor with a file tree and language-server support, carrying a change from a rough 80% draft toward a finished result.

Who Warp Is For

Warp fits individual developers who want a modern terminal, power users who lean on AI agents for daily coding, and engineering organizations that need shared command libraries and centralized control over cloud agents. Teams facing heavy code review, bug investigation, refactors, migrations, and incident response are a core audience, including regulated or scale-sensitive groups in financial services, insurance, and telecom.

Top Differentiators

Warp is terminal-native rather than a plugin inside an integrated development environment (IDE) or a chat sidebar, giving coding agents a purpose-built interface. Agents run multi-threaded with a management interface and granular controls over file access, command execution, and autonomy levels. Work hands off natively between the local terminal and the Oz cloud platform. The terminal and Oz are open source under MIT and GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) licenses.

Founding Year

2020

Target Industry

B2B, B2C, SMB, Enterprise, Financial Services, Insurance, Telecommunications

Available Integrations

GitHub: through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), agents read issues, pull requests, files, and repo metadata; cloud agents need a token-based GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN because OAuth-based MCP servers are unsupported there.
Linear: available as an MCP endpoint and a native cloud-agent trigger, letting agents launch directly from a Linear issue or comment.
Sentry: via MCP, surfaces error monitoring, traces, and release context as agent-usable data through command-line or Server-Sent Events (SSE) setup.
Figma: via MCP, pulls design context using a recommended one-click OAuth remote server, or a local server requiring the Figma desktop app with Dev Mode enabled.
Notion: via MCP, retrieves docs, specs, and project notes through Notion's official MCP implementation, available as CLI or SSE with no stated restriction.
Slack: doubles as a native cloud-agent trigger and an MCP server requiring SLACK_BOT_TOKEN, SLACK_APP_TOKEN, SLACK_TEAM_ID, and SLACK_CHANNEL_IDS environment variables.
Atlassian: Jira and Confluence issue and document context exposed through an MCP SSE endpoint.
Grafana: monitoring and visualization data via MCP, configured with GRAFANA_URL and GRAFANA_API_KEY as a Docker CLI or SSE server.
CI and cloud: GitHub Actions is the primary continuous-integration hook, with GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps via token-based auth and AWS and GCP via short-lived credentials.
Docker: a terminal-level integration that opens any running container in a Warpified subshell without typing docker exec, limited to macOS and bash, zsh, or fish shells.

Warp lists five tiers on its official pricing page.

Free: $0/month, core terminal features, limited cloud-agent access, bring-your-own AI inference, and limited Warp Drive collaboration and cloud storage. Logged-in new users receive 150 AI credits per month for the first two months, then 75 credits per month.
Build (Recommended): $20/month billed monthly or $18/month billed annually, pay-as-you-go with 1,500 credits per month for cloud and local agents, full Warp Agent access across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google models, bring-your-own API key, unlimited Warp Drive and storage, and private email support.
Max: $200/month billed monthly or $180/month billed annually, with 12x the included credits of Build (18,000 credits per month) and the same reload and auto-reload mechanics.
Business: $50/user/month billed monthly or $45/user/month billed annually for up to 25 seats, including 1,500 credits per user per month, team usage metrics, admin-configurable data controls, and SAML-based single sign-on.
Enterprise: custom quote via Contact Sales for unlimited seats, custom shared credit pools, advanced spend controls, bring-your-own-LLM, self-hosted cloud agents, and a dedicated account manager.

When included credits run out, users buy add-on Reload Credits that are up to 50% cheaper than the old overage rates, roll over month to month, and stay valid for 12 months from purchase; auto-reload can trigger when the balance drops below 100 credits, up to an admin-set monthly spend cap. Monthly subscriptions are fully refundable within 24 hours of being charged if no credits were used, and annual subscriptions are fully refundable within 15 days if unused, or prorated afterward.

Pricing last verified: 07/04/2026
Disclaimer: Pricing is subject to change. Please confirm current pricing on the vendor site.

Features & Specs

Platforms: macOS 10.14+, Linux via .deb, .rpm, .tar.zst, and AppImage packages, and Windows 10/11 in x64 and ARM64, distributed as direct downloads and Homebrew rather than the Mac App Store or Play Store.
Terminal: GPU-accelerated and Rust-native, with command blocks, multi-line editing, syntax highlighting, and vertical-tab sessions showing git branch, worktree, and pull request metadata.
Warp Agent: a natural-language coding agent summoned inline by typing #, able to explain and fix command errors and edit code in a built-in editor with file tree and language-server protocol (LSP) support.
Oz: a cloud orchestration platform with CLI, API, and SDK access, a scheduler for recurring jobs, Docker-container environments with multi-repo access, and session-sharing links with audit trails.
Warp Drive: a shared library of reusable commands, workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, and rules that sync automatically across a team's terminals.
AI models: multi-model by design, with provider models such as Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, or an Auto mode, plus configurable reasoning levels (Low, Medium, High, Extra High) for OpenAI models.
Licensing: terminal and Oz open-sourced under MIT and AGPL v3, with the GitHub repository warpdotdev/Warp.

Security & Compliance

Data at rest is encrypted with AES 256 or higher, and data in transit uses TLS 1.3. Authentication supports username and password plus single sign-on through Google and GitHub for individuals, with SAML-based single sign-on such as Okta and enforced domain verification available to enterprise customers on request.

Data location: stored on Google Cloud Platform in US-based databases; users retain full ownership, data is never sold to third parties, and it can be deleted at any time.
Attestation: a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation from an accredited third party, with the report available through the Trust Center.
AI data handling: a Zero Data Retention policy with large language model (LLM) providers is available on the Enterprise plan; other deployments route AI traffic through proxied, US-hosted APIs.
Contacts and agreements: security inquiries go to security@warp.dev, and a Data Processing Addendum is linked from the security page.

Industry Use-Cases

Building a self-improving AI teammate at Rectangle Health

Rectangle Health, a healthcare payment technology company with a roughly 30-person engineering team, built Rex, a Slack-integrated agentic system on Oz that triages tasks and coordinates specialized agents for research, development, code review, and QA, including a loop where Rex reviews its own runs and opens pull requests against its own codebase. Per Warp's published case study, Rex wrote 54% of its own code, shipped roughly 35,000 lines per week to production, and contributed 139 commits across 11 repositories over 60 active development days. About 100 cloud-agent runs per week produced pull requests within a 3-10 minute turnaround, and the entire engineering organization moved onto Warp's Enterprise plan.

Cutting onboarding time for Docker's provisioning team

Docker's provisioning team faced a roughly four-week new-hire ramp, workflows fragmented across GitHub and internal docs, and knowledge silos when staff were unavailable. Adopting Warp Drive gave the team a shared library of more than 40 reusable commands synced automatically across terminals, while Warp AI answered questions in the terminal instead of sending engineers to documentation. Warp's official Docker case study reports a 25% reduction in onboarding time, from four weeks to three.

Tool's Alternatives

iTerm2: a free, open-source macOS-only terminal with an exceptionally deep, mature feature set, including split panes, shell-integration prompt navigation, regex find, output-matched triggers, and a keychain-backed password manager. It requires macOS 12.4 or later and documents no AI or agent capabilities. It differs from Warp as a pure traditional terminal emulator competing on terminal UX polish rather than agentic coding.

Ghostty: a native terminal emulator for macOS and Linux built for speed, with GPU-accelerated rendering, hundreds of built-in themes, and platform-native UI on each operating system. Its documentation states no AI functionality and lists Windows support only as planned. Ghostty competes on raw rendering speed and native feel rather than any AI or agent capability.

Wave Terminal: an open-source, AI-native terminal on macOS, Linux, and Windows that consolidates file preview and editing, a built-in web browser, and shareable dashboard widgets with local-only storage. Its site markets the AI integration without detailing specific model support or agent capabilities. Wave emphasizes workspace and dashboard consolidation rather than Warp's cloud-agent orchestration.

Cursor: an AI-native integrated development environment with autonomous multi-step agents, Tab completion, in-place Cmd+K edits, and semantic codebase indexing, plus a CLI, web client, and iOS app. It is editor-centric rather than terminal-centric, so it overlaps Warp's agent layer more than its terminal. Cursor centers deep in-editor code intelligence as its core surface.

Zed: a Rust-built code editor for macOS, Linux, and Windows offering real-time multiplayer collaboration, agentic editing through MCP and the Agent Client Protocol, and an in-house open-weight edit-prediction model. Its core identity is an editor with an integrated terminal panel rather than a terminal replacement. Zed leads with collaboration-first, multiplayer editing.

Frequently Asked Questions

What operating systems does Warp run on?

Warp runs on macOS 10.14+, Linux via .deb, .rpm, .tar.zst, and AppImage packages, and Windows 10/11 in x64 and ARM64, distributed as direct downloads and Homebrew rather than through app stores.

How much does the Warp Build plan cost?

Build costs $20 per month billed monthly or $18 per month billed annually, including 1,500 credits per month for cloud and local agents plus private email support.

Which AI models can Warp connect to?

Warp is multi-model, letting users pick provider models such as Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5.5, and Gemini 3.1 Pro, or an Auto mode, and bring their own API keys.

What is the Oz orchestration platform in Warp?

Oz is a cloud orchestration platform launched February 10, 2026, that runs coding agents through CLI, API, and SDK access with a scheduler and Docker-based environments.

Is the Warp terminal open source software?

Warp open-sourced its terminal emulator and the Oz orchestration platform on April 28, 2026, under MIT and AGPL v3 licenses, with financial support from OpenAI.

Does Warp hold a recognized security certification?

Warp has obtained a SOC 2 Type 2 attestation from an accredited third party, with the report available through its Trust Center.

What does the Warp Enterprise plan include?

Enterprise uses custom pricing for unlimited seats, custom shared credit pools, advanced spend controls, an Analytics API, bring-your-own-LLM, self-hosted cloud agents, and a dedicated account manager.

How do Warp credits and reloads work?

When included credits run out, users buy Reload Credits up to 50% cheaper than the old overage rates; these roll over month to month and stay valid for 12 months.

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