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Kiro
AWS’s multi-surface coding environment, sharing specs, steering, hooks, skills, and one agent harness across IDE, CLI, and web.
Visit Kiro ↗Verified ·Aug 23, 2026
- Best for
- Developers who want specification-driven work and consistent agent configuration across editor, terminal, and remote surfaces.
- Avoid if
- You need an open-source harness, local-model execution, or a simple fixed-use subscription without credit accounting.
01 / Editorial view
Where it fits
Strengths
- Shared configuration across surfaces
- Structured specs and hooks
- AWS-backed team controls
Limitations
- Credit consumption varies by task and model
- The harness and hosted execution are proprietary
02 / Workflow
Surfaces and capabilities
- Autocomplete
- Unknown
- Chat
- Yes
- Agent
- Yes
- Background agent
- Yes
- Review
- Yes
- Testing
- Yes
Editors
Kiro, ACP-compatible editors
Operating systems
macOS, Windows, Linux
Repository hosts
GitHub
Languages
Language-agnostic
Bring your own key
Unknown
Bring your own model
Unknown
03 / Cost and deployment
What it costs to run
Individual
Free includes 50 credits; paid plans start at $20/month for 1,000 credits.
Team
Each developer needs a subscription; paid tiers support add-on credits.
Enterprise
Enterprise adds centralized billing, SSO, analytics, security, and governance controls.
Requests consume fractional credits based on work and model multipliers. Add-on credits cost $0.04 each on eligible plans.
04 / Privacy
Data handling
- Code processing
- Kiro uses one managed agent harness across local IDE and CLI plus web and mobile surfaces.
- Indexing
- Unknown
- Retention
- Unknown
- Training policy
- Unknown
- Enterprise controls
- IAM and SSO, Usage dashboards, Cost controls, Governance administration
05 / Evidence
Primary sources
- Kiro documentation ↗Checked Aug 23, 2026classification, capabilities, compatibility, privacy.code_processing
- Kiro pricing ↗Checked Aug 23, 2026pricing, models, classification.audience, privacy.enterprise_controls
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