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Kilo Code
Kilo Code
Release date unpublished
An open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the CLI and a cloud agent, with access to 500+ models.
- Interface
- IDE, CLI, WEB
- Pricing
- Bring your own key
- Models
- Any model
- Best Terminal-Bench
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- Open source
- Yes
- Licence
- MIT License
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- MIT licence
- 500+ models, switchable mid-task; BYOK or local via Ollama/LM Studio
- Provider rates with no markup on the Kilo Gateway (5% credit purchase fee)
Weaknesses
- Cloud agent compute billed separately per second
releaseDate null: earliest GitHub release visible (v1.0.25, 2026-02-23) postdates repo creation (2025-03-10), so it is not the launch.