Kilo Code

Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent that runs inside VS Code, JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm), as a CLI, in the cloud, and via Slack. Started as a fork of Roo Code and built by Kilo-Org on $8M in seed funding, Kilo was acquired by Anaconda in July 2026 and continues as an open-source product for individuals, teams, and organizations. It has 27.4k GitHub stars, and Kilo publishes 5M+ Kilo Coders and more than 10 trillion tokens processed every month. Trusted by developers at Meta, Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, Square, and Red Hat. The product rebranded from kilocode.ai to kilo.ai in 2026 and won Product Hunt's #1 Open Source Product of the Month. The agent operates across five built-in modes: Architect for system planning, Code for implementation, Debug for diagnosis, Ask for safe codebase exploration, and Orchestrator for multi-step task management with parallel subagent delegation across separate git worktrees. Cloud Agents support headless background execution. A dedicated Security Agent and Code Reviewer extend the platform beyond code generation into security analysis and pull request review. Integration depth spans the full developer workflow: VS Code, JetBrains (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm), CLI, Cloud Agents, and Slack for team-based task assignment. The platform supports 500+ models via BYOK through OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and any compatible API endpoint with no markup. MCP server integration enables custom tool connections. Gateway and Gastown provide additional infrastructure surfaces. Kilo separates pricing into three independent parts: the platform plan, AI inference, and cloud compute. The platform plan is free and open source forever for individuals under an MIT license. Teams is $15 per user each month for centralized billing, usage analytics, and shared agent management, and Enterprise is custom-priced for SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and SLAs. AI inference runs free through BYOK or local models at no subscription, pay-as-you-go through the Kilo Gateway at exact provider rates with no markup, or on an optional Kilo Pass subscription from $19 per month. Kilo Pass costs the same in either billing cycle and only the credit allowance moves, with an annual commitment earning 50 percent bonus credits against up to 40 percent month to month. A 5 percent processing fee applies to card purchases of credits, including one-off and automatic top-ups and monthly or annual Kilo Pass purchases, and Kilo bills for awake cloud compute time by the second with no rounding or minimum. The fee does not apply to Teams and Enterprise seats, or to payment by invoice, wire, or ACH. Kilo maintains a SOC 2 Type I report through its Trust Center, and on its EU page states that it does not use customer code or prompts to train models or retain them for its own purposes, while noting that the selected provider's data handling policy still applies. Kilo Code is not the right fit for teams that need mature enterprise governance out of the box. GitHub Copilot and Cursor ($16/mo billed annually) provide more polished SSO, audit logging, and RBAC for procurement-heavy enterprise organizations. Tuning Memory Bank, MCP tools, and custom modes has a real learning curve that Cursor or Copilot do not require. Local model performance depends heavily on available hardware, which limits local-first deployments on standard developer machines. Current state Q3 2026: Kilo Code has grown to 27.4k GitHub stars, with Kilo publishing 5M+ Kilo Coders and more than 10 trillion tokens processed every month. The platform expanded from IDE and CLI to include Cloud Agents, Slack integration, Security Agent, Code Reviewer, Gateway, and Gastown. Kilo Mobile for iOS and Android launched in September 2026, an MCP marketplace opened for community-contributed servers, and an EU page added EU-hosted inference routing and provider restriction. The product won Product Hunt's #1 Open Source Product of the Month, and in July 2026 Anaconda acquired Kilo, integrating it as the agentic engineering layer of its AI development platform. Kilo routes work to third-party model providers, some of which may use prompts for training, and ships an organization-level code training opt-out alongside provider filtering by data policy. Fully local model operation is supported for sensitive codebases.