Kilo Code vs Zoo Code (2026)

Kilo Code

by Anaconda

Zoo Code

by Zoo Code

Pros

• ✓Open-source MIT-licensed and model-agnostic with 500+ models: connect any provider through BYOK with no markup, or use Kilo Pass managed inference from $19 per month. 27.8k GitHub stars and 5M+ users validate broad developer adoption.
• ✓Multi-mode architecture with parallel agents across 6+ surfaces: Architect, Code, Debug, Ask, and Orchestrator modes handle planning and execution as separate concerns with subagent delegation across concurrent git worktrees. Cloud Agents, Slack, and Code Reviewer extend beyond IDE-only workflows.
• ✓Trusted by developers at Meta, Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, Square, and Red Hat with $8M seed funding and Product Hunt #1 Open Source Product of the Month award. More than 10 trillion tokens are processed across the platform every month.
• ✓EU data residency and provider control: the EU page documents EU-hosted inference routing, an approved-provider list, and admin restriction of unsupported routes. Kilo Mobile for iOS and Android extends agent sessions beyond the desktop, and an MCP marketplace collects community-contributed servers.

Limitations

• –SSO, SCIM, audit logs and SLAs come with the custom-priced Enterprise plan, while Teams at $15 per user per month covers usage analytics, shared agents and centralized billing.
• –Advanced features such as Memory Bank, custom modes and MCP tool configuration take setup and tuning beyond the default install.
• –Local model performance depends heavily on available hardware: expect uneven results without sufficient GPU compute for larger open-source LLMs, which limits local-first deployments on standard developer machines.
• –Code sent through Kilo Gateway can reach model providers that use prompts for training: an organization-level code training opt-out and a provider data-policy filter are available, but the setting that hides prompt-training models is disabled by default.
• –Review sentiment splits sharply by corpus: its rating on the VS Code Marketplace, by far the largest independent review base, sits well below its G2 and Product Hunt scores, which rest on much smaller samples.

Pros

• ✓Picks up where Roo Code stopped, with the same modes, settings structure and Apache-2.0 license, and a documented export and import path for existing Roo Code settings.
• ✓Model-agnostic with your own keys, across 28 documented provider integrations plus local models through Ollama and LM Studio, so the extension itself costs nothing.
• ✓Actively maintained, with weekly releases through October 2026 and a JetBrains plugin in beta alongside the VS Code extension.

Limitations

• –Community-run and young: the repository dates from April 2026, its terms name no company behind the paid services, and support is community-based outside Enterprise.
• –The independent review base is small, with 25 ratings on the VS Code Marketplace and no G2 profile, so there is little outside evidence yet on long-term reliability.
• –Zoo Gateway and Cloud Agents credits are prepaid and non-refundable, so teams should size purchases to expected usage.