Kiro AI IDE
Overview
Agentic AI IDE by AWS for spec-driven coding, multimodal chat, and automated agent hooks.
Best For Professions:
Kiro is an agentic Integrated Development Environment from AWS that transforms user prompts into structured specs, designs, and tasks. It integrates multimodal input, agent hooks for automation, MCP tool access, real-time code diffs, and supports local/cloud execution to help developers move from prototype to production.
Product overview
Capabilities, pricing and fit
Kiro is AWS's agentic software-development product, available through an IDE, CLI, web interface, ACP-compatible tools, and development automations. It combines conversational coding with structured specs, project steering, event-driven hooks, and MCP connections.
Information as of August 15, 2026
What it can do
- Specs and agentic chat
Developers can plan and build features through structured specifications or a conversational coding agent.[1]
- Project steering and hooks
Steering files provide persistent project rules and context, while hooks automate repetitive tasks from intelligent triggers.[1]
- External tool connectivity
Kiro supports MCP servers and works through IDE, CLI, web, ACP-compatible IDE, and automated software-development surfaces.[1], [2]
Where it fits best
- Developers and software teams planning features with specs, implementing through agentic chat, and automating recurring repository tasks with hooks and external tools.[1]
Pricing and availability
Kiro Free costs $0 for 50 monthly credits. Paid individual tiers start at $20 per user per month for Pro with 1,000 credits; paid plans can buy add-on credits at $0.04 per credit.[2], [3]
Platforms: Kiro IDE, Kiro CLI, Kiro web, ACP-compatible IDEs, Software-development automations[1], [2]
Access: AWS-hosted agent service with local development surfaces[1], [2]
Important considerations
- Every prompt, spec refinement, task execution, and agent-hook execution consumes credits; unused monthly plan credits do not roll over.[2], [3]
- The Free tier is limited to 50 credits, and add-on credits are available only on paid plans.[2], [3]
- Premium-model access and paid-plan availability vary by country or region.[2]
Sources (3)
- Get started | Kiro DocsDocumentation · checked 2026-08-15
- Pricing | KiroPricing page · checked 2026-08-15
- Billing for individuals | Kiro DocsDocumentation · checked 2026-08-15
Autonomy level
84/100
Our subjective rating of how independently the product carries out its documented tasks, considering the human setup, input, approval and review it needs. This is not a measured success rate.
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Some of the use cases of Kiro AI IDE:
- Turning natural-language feature requests into structured specs and implementation tasks.
- Automating documentation, testing, and code quality via agent hooks.
- Collaborating using multimodal chat, diagrams, and direct code edits.
- Ensuring code correctness with verification, diffs, and project steering.
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