AWS
Kiro
AWS-built agentic coding service and IDE focused on spec-driven development, hooks, steering files, CLI agents, and Kiro Web cloud work.
Attributed output
GitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09
2,369Attributed outputGitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09Commits and PRs on public GitHub provably produced by this agent. Exact if it is visible through its own bot or workflow, an estimate if measured through attribution it declares (these can swing 30 to 40 percent between measurement runs at multi-million scale), and a floor either way.#20
Index rank
of 34 tracked agents
#20Index rankof 34 tracked agentsn/a
Business signal
No sourced business metric
n/aBusiness signalNo sourced business metric$0 free tier
Entry price
Kiro credits
$0 free tierEntry priceKiro creditsNot published
GitHub stars
No public repo
Not publishedGitHub starsNo public repoNot published
npm demand/wk
Public npm counter
Not publishednpm demand/wkPublic npm counterWeekly package downloads as an install-demand floor; adjusted when the vendor's main install channel is no longer npm.Market
Developer output
Public GitHub commits attributed to Kiro
Kiro has no documented default attribution, so coverage is partial.
Snapshot 2026-06-09, confidence Low, tracked since 2026-06-09, +15.3% over 6 days. Read the methodology.
- Index rank
- #20 of 34
- Demand share
- No public npm package
- Business signal
- No sourced business metric
- GitHub share
- No public repo
- npm channel
- No public npm package
Best fit
Direct competitors
- Kiro fills a gap in the index: AWS's spec-driven IDE/CLI/Web coding agent.
- Its traction is harder to compare publicly because AWS distributes Kiro through native downloads and account-based credits rather than npm.
- Kiro's pricing is unusually explicit for model multipliers, credits, overage, and separate Pro/Pro+/Power tiers.
All sourced signals (3)ExpandHide
| Signal | Value | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latest IDE | 0.12.263 | Official | High |
| Latest CLI | 2.5.0 | Official | High |
| Power tier | $200/month for 10,000 credits | Official | High |
Pricing And Economics
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Kiro Free includes 50 credits; Pro is $20/month, Pro+ is $40/month, and Power is $200/month.
- Entry price
- $0 free tier
- Top self-serve price
- $200/mo
- Pricing unit
- Kiro credits
- Token transparency
- Credit proxy
- Included usage
- Free: 50 credits; Pro: 1,000; Pro+: 2,000; Power: 10,000. Credits are fractional and task/model dependent.
- Overage path
- Paid tiers can opt into overage at $0.04/credit.
Retail Token Equivalent
Kiro publishes relative model multipliers rather than token budgets: Auto 1.0x, Sonnet 4.6 1.3x, Opus 4.6/4.7 2.2x, Haiku 4.5 0.4x, Qwen3 Coder Next 0.05x.
| Plan | Price | Allowance | Unit | Token / Overage Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kiro Free | $0 | 50 credits. | credits | |
| Kiro Pro | $20/mo | 1,000 credits. | credits | $0.04/credit |
| Kiro Pro+ | $40/mo | 2,000 credits. | credits | $0.04/credit |
| Kiro Power | $200/mo | 10,000 credits. | credits | $0.04/credit |
Kiro Free includes 50 credits; Pro is $20/month for 1,000 credits; Pro+ is $40 for 2,000; Power is $200 for 10,000, with opt-in overage at $0.04/credit.
- Kiro credits are fractional and depend on task complexity.
- Model cost multipliers range from low-cost open-weight models to Opus-class models.
- Kiro Web uses the same credit model as IDE and CLI.
Company And Funding
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- Ownership
- Public
- Founded
- 1994
- Headquarters
- Seattle, WA
- Employees
- Amazon ~1.5M
- Parent company
- Amazon
- Total raised
- Not applicable
Kiro is an AWS product, funded through Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).
Enterprise And Security
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- SSO / SCIM
- Yes
- Deployment
- Cloud-only
- Trains on your code
- Not trained on your code
- Zero data retention
- Unknown
Compliance
Admin controls
Kiro is an AWS product and inherits AWS account-based identity and compliance controls.
Product
Providers
Model families
Capabilities
Tradeoffs
- Credit consumption is task/model dependent
- AWS-hosted model access rather than BYOK