Kiro: Spec-driven AI IDE and agent platform from AWS that plans, builds, reviews, and verifies engineering work. Kiro records 3,330,476 monthly visits with +4.6% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. VS Code records 7,397,370 monthly visits with -3.8% growth and Freemium pricing.
A spec-driven AI IDE and agent platform that plans, builds, reviews, and verifies real engineering work.
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | kiro.dev | code.visualstudio.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 3.33M (3,330,476) | 7.4M (7,397,370) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +145.23K (+4.6%) | -288.8K (-3.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (16.3%) | 🇺🇸 United States (18.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.81M | 2.17M |
| User Rating | 4.5 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
A spec-driven AI IDE and agent platform that plans, builds, reviews, and verifies real engineering work.
You describe intent and context first; Kiro captures requirements and design as specifications, then verifies the finished implementation against them.
Kiro Crew watches your backlog, codebase, or CI, triages new work, delegates to specialized bots, and returns results for your review.
Long tasks split into checked steps so agents cannot shortcut a failed test, and review agents inspect diffs before a human approves a merge.
Use the IDE, mobile, or web, run headless in CI/CD with the CLI, or trigger Kiro from Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and GitLab.
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
Agents open the repository, form a plan, edit multiple files and explain the changes so you can review each diff before accepting it. You can also run several agents in parallel to push a backlog forward.
Point the editor at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or open-weight models, or bring your own key. Pick the Copilot, Claude or Codex harness that matches how you like to work.
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS work out of the box, and Marketplace extensions add IntelliSense, linting, refactoring and debuggers for Python, Java, C++, Go, Rust and more.
Integrated terminal, source control, debugger, testing, Jupyter notebooks, an integrated browser and Dev Containers all live in one window, so you stay close to the code.
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