# Kiro

> Agents that plan, build, review and verify software

- Page on StartupList: https://startuplist.tech/launches/kiro
- Website: https://kiro.dev/
- Category: AI Coding
- Price: Free + $20/mo
- Company: AWS (https://startuplist.tech/companies/aws)
- Used for: Ship code faster, Automate workflows, Write documents

## At a glance

- The problem it solves: Engineering teams spend too long on routine builds, bug fixes and reviews, and AI code generation often skips tests and loses context
- Who it's for: Businesses (B2B)
- How it finds customers: Launch sites

## About

Kiro is an agentic engineering system for shipping software. You set your intent and give it context, and Kiro agents plan, build, review and verify real engineering work, either on your local machine or in the cloud.

Kiro is offered in several surfaces: Crew, which runs persistent agents that pick up signals such as Slack threads, GitHub or GitLab issues and CI failures; Web, for long-running cloud sessions that run in parallel and keep going when you close your laptop; Mobile; an IDE; and a CLI that can run headless in CI/CD, from Slack or on a schedule.

The product is built around three ideas. Workflows split long tasks into checked steps so an agent cannot skip a failing test. Persistent memory keeps past decisions, project standards and corrections available across sessions. Specs capture what you meant before code is written, catch requirements gaps, and verify results afterwards with property-based tests.

A typical loop works like this: a signal arrives, triage decides whether the work is small enough to build now or should be written up as a spec for a person, a sandboxed agent reproduces the problem and makes the smallest fix with tests and lint, and the result opens as a pull request for review. Production signals such as errors and alerts can start the next run.

Kiro is for engineering teams, and the page names frontier teams and enterprises as customers. It supports Claude, GPT and open-weight models, and lets you choose a specific model or let Auto route each task.

The free tier, Kiro Free, includes 50 credits per month with access to open weight models and Claude Sonnet 4.5. Paid individual plans are Pro at $20 per month with 1,000 credits, Pro+ at $40 with 2,000 credits, Pro Max at $100 with 5,000 credits and Power at $200 with 10,000 credits. Each plan allows add-on credits at $0.04 each. Teams pay $20 per seat per month, and each seat adds 500 credits to a shared pool, with a minimum of two seats.

The first upgrade from Free to Pro comes with the rest of that month free and 500 trial credits to use within 12 months. A credit is a unit of work, and more complex tasks such as executing a spec task usually cost more than one credit.

## Links

- [Kiro on StartupList](https://startuplist.tech/launches/kiro)
- [Website](https://kiro.dev/)