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500+ models, zero markup: frontier, open weight, or your own keys. One agent, everywhere you work, fully open source.
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Built differently, on purpose
AI coding tools should work for you, not against you.
Agent command center
One portal for every agent
Control every agent from one place across IDEs, CLI, and cloud.
- Local and cloud agents
- Parallel isolated worktrees
- IDE and CLI sessions
Aligned pricing
Models at cost. No markup. No lock-in.
Choose the right model without markup, lock-in, or provider limits.
- Zero AI inference markup
- Bring your own keys
- Local models supported
Open source
No black boxes. Inspect everything.
Audit the prompt, context window, and decisions in MIT-licensed source.
- Fork, modify, self-host
- Prompt and context visibility
- No silent model switching
Your agents should move with your work. Start anywhere, hand off seamlessly, and keep everything in flight.
Use Kilo Everywhere
Kilo works where you work. Build alone or with your team.
Built for agentic engineering
Multiple modes, one agent
Kilo Code ships with specialized agent modes so you can switch contexts without switching tools.
- Every coding surface.
- Use the same open-source agent in VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and cloud agents.
- Code Mode.
- Write, refactor, and ship production-ready code with an AI agent that understands your entire codebase.
- Architect Mode.
- Plan complex features and get structured guidance before writing a single line of code.
- Cloud agents and code review.
- Move from local coding to remote agents and review workflows without changing tools.
- Debug Mode.
- Identify and fix bugs fast with an agent that reads errors, traces issues, and suggests fixes.
Stop choosing models. Start shipping.
Pick Efficient, Frontier, or Free. Auto Model handles the routing behind the scenes, using the right model strategy for your budget and the work at hand.
Efficient
NewSession-aware routing for smarter spend, powered by live session classification.
Frontier
Routes to the latest and most capable paid models when the work needs it.
Free
Best free models available, including free and experimental options.
Recent posts
Read the latest news and updates from the Kilo Code team.
LongCat 2.0 Is Free in Kilo for a Limited Time
Owl Alpha is back, and it’s dressed like a Cat
Ari Messer·
The New Meta(flow): Plan and Build in Kilo, Deploy on the Anaconda Platform
For most Python teams, the distance between “I have an idea for a pipeline” and “that pipeline is running in production” is still measured in days, not minutes.
Brian Turcotte·
Hard question: Should we be concerned about how powerful AI models are getting?
Jack Clark, one of Anthropic’s cofounders, told TIME in July that the company could see acceleration showing up all over the organization but couldn’t quantify what it added up to.
Brian Turcotte·
All roads lead to metered pricing
The era of heavily subsidised models and flat subscription pricing is coming to an end. Cursor told its users this week that Auto pricing will be charged based on the model each request gets routed to
Arkadiy Kondrashov·
Qwen3.8-Max Just Passed Claude Fable 5 on the Frontend Leaderboard. We Compared Them on 10 UIs
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max on August 2, and it debuted at #4 on Arena.ai’s Frontend Code leaderboard, one spot above Claude Fable 5.
Job Rietbergen·
What the EU CRA actually asks of your engineering team
Five weeks out from the first deadline, here's the CRA translated from regulation into the work it creates for the people who ship the code
Arkadiy Kondrashov·