# Kilo

> Open source AI coding agent for your IDE, terminal and cloud

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/kilo
- Website: https://kilo.ai/
- Category: AI Coding
- Price: Free + $15/mo
- Company: Kilo Code, Inc (https://startuplist.tech/companies/kilo-code-inc)
- Used for: Ship code faster, Automate workflows

## At a glance

- The problem it solves: Developers want AI coding help without being locked into one model, provider or editor
- Who it's for: Businesses and consumers
- How it finds customers: Blog and content, Affiliates and partners, Marketplaces and integrations, Reddit and communities

## About

Kilo is an open source AI coding agent that runs in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, a command-line interface, and cloud agents. The page describes one agent that works across all of these, so a developer can start a task in an editor, continue it in the terminal, and review it from a phone or Slack.

The agent can write, refactor and debug code, and it has separate modes for planning features and fixing bugs. Cloud agents run remotely, and a code reviewer handles review workflows. The source is MIT-licensed, so users can inspect the prompts and context the agent uses, fork it, or self-host it.

Kilo supports more than 500 models from over 60 providers. Users can choose a hosted model through Kilo Gateway at the provider's rate with no markup, bring their own provider keys, or run local models with Ollama or LM Studio. An Auto Model option routes each task to an Efficient, Frontier or Free model strategy.

It is aimed at individual developers and at teams. Individuals can use the platform for free and pay only for inference and cloud compute. Teams add shared billing, usage analytics and shared agents, and Enterprise adds single sign-on, audit logs and service level commitments.

The free plan covers the VS Code, JetBrains and CLI extensions. Inference is billed separately: pay-as-you-go credits have no subscription, and Kilo Pass is a monthly credit subscription from $19 that includes bonus credits. Teams cost $15 per user per month. Cloud compute is billed per second, and a 5% fee applies to credit purchases.

## Links

- [Kilo on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/kilo)
- [Website](https://kilo.ai/)