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Amazon (Nova)
Kiro
Released Jul 14, 2025
AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE, also available as a CLI and on the web, with an Auto router or a manually chosen model.
- Interface
- IDE, CLI, WEB
- Pricing
- Subscription
- Models
- 8 listed models
- Best Terminal-Bench
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- Open source
- No
- Licence
- Proprietary
Runs on
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Spec-driven workflow: requirements, design and tasks before code
- Pick Auto or a specific Claude, GPT-5.6 or open-weight model
- IDE, CLI, web and ACP-compatible IDEs share one credit pool
Weaknesses
- Third-party harnesses routing outside Kiro's interfaces are not permitted
- Credit cost varies by model
supportedModels partial: GPT-5.6 variants (unspecified), GLM-5 and Qwen3 Coder Next are offered but don't map to models.json ids. Launched in preview 2025-07-14.