Kilo Code

Kilo Code is an open source AI coding agent that runs in the editors and terminals developers already use, instead of asking them to move into a separate forked editor. It is available as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin for IDEs such as IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm, a CLI for any shell, script, or CI job, cloud agents that start from a browser, a desktop app that runs agents side by side, a Slack integration, and a mobile app for following agents from a phone. Kilo says its extension, plugin, and CLI are free to install and open source under the MIT license, and that every prompt is visible to the user. Specialized agents cover different parts of the work. The Code Agent writes, refactors, and ships production ready code with an understanding of the whole codebase, the Plan Agent plans complex features before code is written, the Debug Agent reads errors, traces issues, and suggests fixes, and an Ask agent answers codebase questions, with custom agents definable through your own prompts, tool permissions, and model choice. Kilo says it indexes your repository, pulls in the most relevant files and symbols for each prompt, and supports explicit context through file, folder, and URL mentions, MCP servers, and documentation pulled in to avoid invented APIs. Cloud Agents run in isolated cloud containers connected to a GitHub or GitLab repo, keep long tasks such as migrations and refactors working while a laptop is closed, and return their output as pull requests that can be resumed locally with context preserved. Model choice is the other half of the design. Kilo states that it gives access to more than 500 AI models through one interface, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Grok, Qwen, and Llama, plus local models through Ollama or LM Studio. Its Auto Model feature routes work behind the scenes when you pick Efficient, Frontier, or Free, instead of asking you to choose a model for every task. On privacy, Kilo says it never trains on your code and passes prompts directly to the provider you pick. Pricing is described qualitatively on its pricing page. The tools themselves are free, and inference is priced separately: you can use free models, run local models, bring your own provider keys and pay those providers directly at their own rates with no markup from Kilo, or top up a pay as you go gateway balance that works across the IDE, CLI, and cloud surfaces, with an optional Kilo Pass subscription that converts into credits plus bonus credits. Paid credits expire one calendar year after purchase, per the pricing FAQ. Teams adds centralized billing, usage analytics, and role based access, while Enterprise adds SSO and SAML, SCIM, audit logs, data residency controls, and priority support, and cloud compute is billed separately by awake container time.