Kiro
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Kiro is Amazon Web Services' agentic IDE, launched in May 2026 as a VS Code fork built around spec-driven development. Instead of prompting straight to code, Kiro first produces a structured requirements document, a design and architecture plan, and a task spec, then implements against them — an approach aimed at reducing the rework that free-form AI coding often creates.
The agent runs on Anthropic's Claude models (Sonnet at the core, with Opus available for harder reasoning), executing multi-file changes, running tests, and iterating against the spec. Kiro effectively replaces AWS's earlier Amazon Q Developer, which is being wound down.
Pricing uses a credit model: a Free tier with 50 credits, Pro at $20/month (1,000 credits), Pro+ at $40/month (2,000 credits), and Power at $200/month (10,000 credits), with pay-as-you-go overage at $0.04 per credit. Kiro is best for teams that want the AI to plan before it builds, and for AWS-centric development shops.
- Spec-driven flow reduces rework and scope drift
- Writes requirements, design and task specs before any code
- Runs frontier Claude models (Sonnet/Opus)
- Familiar VS Code-based interface
- Transparent credit pricing from a free tier
- Spec-first flow adds overhead for small, quick tasks
- Newer, smaller ecosystem than Cursor or Copilot
- Credit model can get costly under heavy use
- Most valuable inside AWS-centric workflows
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