AI Coding Assistants
AWS's spec-driven coding agent for the IDE and CLI, plus the browser on paid plans, metered in monthly credits.
Free plan: 50 credits a month.
Paid: Pro $20, Pro+ $40, Pro Max $100 and Power $200 a month. Teams from $20/seat/mo. Free trial.
Prices checked November 9, 2026 on kiro.devUSD as listed
Kiro
From $20/mo · Free plan
Plans and prices ↓Source: kiro.dev · USD as listed
| Plan | Monthly | credits a month | per 100 credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free plans | |||
| Free | Free | 50 credits a month | — |
| Individual plans | |||
| Pro | $20 | 1,000 | $2.00 |
| Pro+ | $40 | 2,000 | $2.00 |
| Pro Max | $100 | 5,000 | $2.00 |
| Power | $200 | 10,000 | $2.00 |
| Team plans | |||
| Credit pooling | $20 | 500 | $4.00 |
Free plans
50 credits a month
Individual plans
Team plans
500 credits a month · $4.00 per 100 credits
Savings and costs per 100 credits are ToolColumn arithmetic from the prices and allowances above.
Kiro individual plans · App subscription · Primary · From $20/mo
Free, Pro ($20), Pro+ ($40), Pro Max ($100) and Power ($200) a month with 50 to 10,000 credits, plus add-on credits at $0.04 on paid plans. Paid through Stripe when you sign in with GitHub, Google or AWS Builder ID; prices exclude tax.
Kiro credit pooling · Team workspace · From $20/seat/mo
Teams of two or more pay $20 per seat a month through their AWS account; each seat adds 500 credits to a pool every member can draw on, and admins buy extra pool credits at $0.04 that last 12 months and set limits. It is the only option for new Kiro Enterprise profiles.
Kiro Enterprise through AWS · Enterprise sales · Custom
Enterprise subscriptions are bought and billed through AWS, with IAM Identity Center sign-in and model governance; Claude Fable 5.1 is Enterprise-only, and Kiro in AWS GovCloud costs about 20% more.
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Buyer guide
Kiro sells 6 plans: 1 free, 4 individual, 1 team.
Includes: 50 credits a month for Auto, Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models such as Qwen3 Coder Next, MiniMax M2.5 and GLM-5. No add-on credits: at the limit you wait for the next month. Unused credits do not roll over.
Includes: 1,000 credits a month on every model in your region except Claude Fable 5.1 (Enterprise only); each model spends credits at its own multiple of Auto. Add-on credits cost $0.04 and last 12 months; plan credits reset monthly. The first upgrade from Free makes the rest of that month free and adds 500 trial credits.
Includes: 2,000 credits a month on the same models as Pro, with add-on credits at $0.04.
Includes: 5,000 credits a month on the same models as Pro, with add-on credits at $0.04.
Includes: 10,000 credits a month on the same models as Pro, with add-on credits at $0.04.
Includes: $20 per seat per month for teams of two or more, each seat adding 500 credits a month to one shared pool. Extra pool credits cost $0.04 and last a year; unused seat credits expire monthly. Admins set per-user and group limits. Needs AWS IAM Identity Center.
AI Coding Assistants
| Product | Free tier | Cheapest paid plan | Top plan | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor | FreeSee plans on the tool page | From $8The X Subscription | — | Prices checked |
| Claude Code | No free plan | From $17Claude subscription | — | Prices checked |
| Codex | FreeSee plans on the tool page | From $8ChatGPT plan access | — | Prices checked |
| Google Antigravity | FreeSee plans on the tool page | From $19.99Google AI plans | — | Prices checked |
| GitHub Copilot | Free | $10 | $100 | Prices checked |
| OpenCode | FreeSee plans on the tool page | $10See plans on the tool page | $40 | Prices checked |
Kiro is an agentic coding environment from Amazon Web Services. It runs as a desktop IDE and a terminal CLI; on paid plans Kiro Web also takes a task in the browser and returns a pull request, and Kiro Crew is an open-source workspace that starts work on a schedule or when an event arrives. Its signature workflow is spec-driven development: Kiro turns a request into requirements, a design and a sequenced task list before it writes code. An Auto router picks the model by default, and you can choose OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models, Anthropic's Claude models or open-weight models instead.
It suits developers who want an agent to plan larger changes before touching the repository, and teams on AWS that want sign-in, governance and billing through their AWS account. The main caveat is cost predictability: prompts, spec steps and hooks all spend credits at a rate set by the model, so the same task can cost several times more on a premium model than on Auto.
Kiro meters all of this in credits. Individuals choose a monthly plan with a fixed credit allowance, from a free tier up, and paid plans can buy more; teams share a pool of credits bought per seat through AWS, and enterprise subscriptions are billed through AWS.
FAQ
Yes. Kiro Free includes 50 credits a month for the free-tier models and cannot buy extra credits, so heavier use means waiting for the next month or upgrading. Students aged 18 or older at eligible universities can get a year of 1,000 credits a month free.
From $20 to $200 a month before tax, for 1,000 to 10,000 credits. In ToolColumn arithmetic every paid plan works out to $0.02 a credit, so pick the plan that covers a normal month; add-on credits cost twice that, $0.04.
A credit is Kiro's unit of agent work, metered to 0.01. A simple prompt can cost less than one credit and a spec task usually costs more, and each model spends credits at its own multiple of Auto, Kiro's default router: on the Free tier from 0.05x for Qwen3 Coder Next to 1.3x for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
On paid individual plans, add-on credits cost $0.04 each, in packs from $5 for 125 credits to $100, billed when you buy them. Unused add-on credits roll over and expire 12 months after purchase. Kiro Free cannot buy them.
Plan credits do not: they reset at the start of each billing month. Add-on credits and the 500 trial credits from a first upgrade last 12 months.
Teams of two or more buy $20 credit-pooling seats through an AWS account, and each seat adds 500 credits a month to a shared pool. Pooling works only with Kiro profiles on AWS IAM Identity Center, not with a profile connected directly to an external identity provider, and users moved into a pool cannot go back to individual plans.
On Kiro Free and paid individual plans, AWS may use your prompts and generated code to improve the service, including model training, unless you opt out in Kiro's settings. Content from Kiro enterprise accounts is not used.
Kiro subscriptions work in the Kiro IDE, CLI, Kiro Web and Kiro Crew, in ACP-compatible editors and in CI/CD automation; Kiro Free covers the IDE and CLI but not Kiro Web or API-key sign-in. Kiro does not allow routing a subscription through third-party automation harnesses such as OpenClaw.
Kiro From $20 in credits · Free plan
Prices checked November 9, 2026
Editorial guidance grounded in official product sources.
Prices come from kiro.dev's official pricing page; the date at the top of this page is the latest check. Plan details and limits are reviewed against official pages every month. Picks are ToolColumn's judgment.
Edited byRick Finch
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