Kilo

What Kilo does

Kilo (legally Kilo Code Inc., a Delaware-incorporated, privately held company headquartered in the United States with a community presence in Amsterdam) operates an open-source AI coding agent platform distributed as a VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, CLI tool, cloud web app, Slack integration, and mobile companion apps on Android (launched June 2026) and iOS (in early access). The platform supports 500+ AI models from 20+ labs (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and others) routed through the Kilo Gateway at zero markup on inference, with BYOK and local-model (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, SGLang) support, and is built on an MIT-licensed codebase. Specialized agent modes — Code, Architect, Debug, Ask, and Orchestrator — cover the full development lifecycle, supplemented by adjacent modules including Code Reviews (GitHub-native PR review with configurable style and focus areas), Deploy (one-click deployment), Browser Use, Cloud Agents, Memory Bank, Security Agent, KiloClaw (hosted always-on OpenClaw agents deployable in under 60 seconds via Telegram/Discord/Slack), and a forthcoming iOS app plus a local Kilo Console.

The company monetizes through a layered revenue model: free-tier PLG entry via Kilo Auto (no credit card required), pay-as-you-go AI usage at provider cost, Kilo Teams at $15/user/month for centralized billing and shared modes (explicitly benchmarked as less than half of Cursor Business at $40/user/month), Kilo Enterprise on custom contracts with SSO, SCIM, audit logs, and admin controls, KiloClaw for Organizations (managed enterprise version targeting shadow-AI governance), KiloPass subscriptions (credits plus up to 50% bonus credits), and prepaid usage credits with one-year expiration. Go-to-market combines product-led growth (marketplace listings, open-source community, content/SEO, joint webinars with AI labs through a Launch Partner Program) with a field-sales motion for Teams and Enterprise tiers.

As of June 2026, Kilo reports 3M+ downloads, 40T+ tokens processed, named developer adoption at Meta, Amazon, Airbnb, PayPal, Square, and Red Hat, 99.955% uptime over the prior 90 days, and $8 million in seed funding raised in December 2025 and led by Cota Capital. It targets individual developers, engineering teams, and enterprises concerned with shadow AI agent governance, with strategic emphasis on the KiloClaw hosted-agent product line as its enterprise growth lever.

Name

Kilo

Legal name

Kilo Code Inc.

Website

https://kilo.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kilo is an open-source AI coding agent platform that gives individual developers, engineering teams, and enterprises access to 500+ AI models across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, cloud, and Slack, priced at provider cost with no markup.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Coding Tools

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Agents & Autonomous Workflows (Tool Use, Planning, Multi-Agent) (HDAAACAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Model Serving, Inference & Deployment Platforms (APIs, Edge/On-Prem) (HDAEANAC), AI Compute Cloud & GPU-as-a-Service (HDAAAAAK), Secure Model Deployment & Runtime Protection (sandboxing, isolation) (HDAAAKAH)

Keywords

• AI coding assistant
• Agentic engineering platform
• AI model gateway
• Code generation tools
• Developer productivity software

Headquarters

HQ city

Londonderry

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. AI Usage (Pay-as-you-go): Users pay for AI tokens at exact provider cost with zero markup. Supports 500+ models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek, and others via OpenRouter. No subscription required to use AI.
2. Kilo Teams ($15/user/month): Team tier at $15/user/month providing centralized billing, usage analytics, shared custom modes, and role-based access control.
3. Kilo Enterprise: Enterprise tier with SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit logs, model access controls, and dedicated support. Custom pricing via sales team.
4. Kilo Pass: Subscription converting monthly/annual payment to credits 1:1 plus bonus credits. Bonus credits expire at month end.
5. Credits Purchase: Usage credits purchased in advance with 1-year expiration. Non-refundable. Credits used for AI model interactions and Kilo cloud infrastructure.
6. KiloClaw for Organizations: Managed enterprise version of OpenClaw platform with enterprise controls (SSO, SCIM, centralized billing, usage analytics, admin controls) addressing shadow AI governance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels7 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Kilo sells an open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent platform (Kilo Code) that runs inside VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the CLI, the cloud, and Slack. The platform routes requests through a unified API gateway (Kilo Gateway) to 500+ AI models at provider cost with zero markup, while supporting bring-your-own-keys, local model serving, and hosted always-on agents (KiloClaw) for long-running, automatable engineering workflows.

Product overview

Kilo (also known as Kilo Code) is an open source, agentic AI coding platform built as a modular architecture with a core product and multiple specialized modules. The core is Kilo Code — an AI coding agent available across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, CLI, Cloud, and Slack — supporting 500+ AI models with zero markup pricing and MIT licensing. The platform integrates Kilo Gateway (unified API for model routing), KiloClaw (hosted always-on OpenClaw agents), Cloud Agents (cloud execution), Code Reviews (automated PR analysis), and Deploy (one-click deployment). Additional modules include Security Agent (AI vulnerability analysis), Memory Bank (persistent context), Sessions (cross-platform state sync), Skills (extensible capability packages), and Browser Use (automation). Mobile apps extend access to Android and iOS. Enterprise tiers (Teams at $15/user/month, Enterprise with SSO/audit) provide governance controls. The platform follows a platform-plus-modules architecture where the core IDE/CLI agent serves as the primary interface, supplemented by cloud-hosted services (KiloClaw, Cloud Agents), specialized features (Code Reviews, Deploy, Security), and enterprise management tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• KiloClaw: Hosted OpenClaw platform for deploying always-on AI agents in under 60 seconds with enterprise controls.
• Kilo Gateway
• Kilo Pass

Products and services

• Kilo Code Open-source, MIT-licensed AI coding agent platform available in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, CLI, Cloud, and Slack. Supports 500+ AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek, and others via the Kilo Gateway at zero markup. Includes specialized agent modes (Code, Architect, Debug, Ask, Orchestrator), Codebase Indexing, Memory Bank, Session Forks, MCP marketplace integration, and browser automation for individual developers and engineering teams.
• KiloClaw Hosted OpenClaw platform for deploying always-on AI coding agents in under 60 seconds. Connects via Telegram, Discord, or Slack and runs scheduled automations, cron jobs, and long-running workflows. Fully managed with auto-restart, monitoring, security updates, and access to 500+ AI models via Kilo Gateway at zero markup.
• KiloClaw for Organizations Enterprise managed version of KiloClaw that shifts AI agents from employee-managed infrastructure to centrally governed environments with scoped access. Includes SSO, SCIM provisioning, centralized billing, usage analytics, and admin controls designed to address shadow AI compliance and governance needs in large organizations.
• Kilo Gateway Unified API gateway providing access to 500+ AI models from every major provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen, and others) through a single endpoint. Zero AI inference markup, supports BYOK and local model serving, and powers model routing across all Kilo surfaces including IDE, CLI, Cloud, and Slack.
• KiloPass (Kilo Pass) Subscription product that converts monthly or annual payments into platform credits on a 1:1 basis with additional bonus credits on top (up to 50% extra credits, with bonus credits expiring at month end). Provides cost-predictable access to AI usage through Kilo Gateway.
• Kilo Teams Team plan at $15/user/month delivering collaborative AI coding tooling for engineering organizations. Includes centralized billing, usage analytics, shared custom modes, role-based access control, and model limiting, priced at less than half the cost of Cursor Business ($40/user/month).
• Kilo Enterprise Enterprise tier providing SSO/SAML authentication, audit logging, model access controls, migration support, and advanced governance features. Custom pricing delivered through direct sales engagement with dedicated support for large organizations.
• Cloud Agents Cloud-hosted AI coding agents that execute long-running tasks, complex workflows, and resource-intensive operations without consuming local machine resources, syncing results back to the local environment.
• Kilo Cloud (app.kilo.ai) Cloud-hosted web application (app.kilo.ai) providing access to Kilo Auto free tier, usage and billing management, and orchestration of cloud agents without requiring IDE installation.
• Kilo Code Android App Companion Android chat application for the Kilo Code platform that connects to existing Kilo accounts, enables chat with Cloud Agents, and allows users to monitor remote sessions and steer KiloClaw or Kilo Code tasks from their phone.

Quantifiable outcome

• Near-Opus AI coding performance at fraction of cost (MiniMax M2.7 ranked #5 on PinchBench out of 50 models, at $0.30/M input vs Opus's higher cost)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration20 records

AI capability17 records

Feature17 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• OpenRoutercoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenRouter serves as the routing layer forwarding requests to the AI provider selected by the user per request, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Meta, and other providers. OpenRouter and downstream providers are bound by data protection terms equivalent to Kilo's privacy policy.
• AnthropiccoreTechnology or IntegrationAnthropic's Claude models (Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet) are among the 500+ models available via Kilo Gateway. Anthropic and Kilo co-hosted a joint webinar with 1,000+ developers attending for Claude Opus 4.5.
• GooglecoreTechnology or IntegrationGoogle Gemini models (Gemini 3.1 Pro, Gemma line) are available via Kilo Gateway. Kilo co-hosted Gemini 3 model launch with 1,500+ developer registrations.
• OpenAIcoreTechnology or IntegrationOpenAI's GPT family including GPT-5.5 and Codex coding-specialist models are available via Kilo Gateway.
• DiscordminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorKiloClaw connects via Discord for agent interactions. Kilo also maintains an active Discord community for user support and engagement.
• SlackminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorKilo for Slack allows users to address Kilo directly in Slack for codebase questions, code explanations, and PR creation via cloud agents.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Roo Code: Roo Code is an open-source AI coding agent extension that was forked from the same lineage as Kilo, offering comparable multi-mode agent functionality and competing directly for the same developer community.
• Replit Agent: Replit's AI Agent provides agentic coding and full-stack app building inside a cloud IDE, targeting individual developers and teams with comparable autonomous workflow capabilities.
• Tabnine: Tabnine is an AI coding assistant focused on enterprise developers with on-prem and private model options, targeting similar engineering teams with comparable code completion and chat features.
• Windsurf (Codeium): Windsurf (formerly Codeium) is a direct AI coding IDE competitor offering agentic coding flows with multi-model support, competing head-to-head with Kilo for engineering team and individual developer adoption.
• Claude Code (Anthropic): Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal- and IDE-based agentic coding tool directly comparable to Kilo's CLI and Cloud Agents offering, targeting the same enterprise and developer audience with deep codebase understanding.
• Augment Code: Augment Code is an AI coding assistant with VS Code and JetBrains extensions, serving engineering teams with codebase-aware suggestions and agentic features that overlap with Kilo Code's offering.
• Cursor: Cursor is the most directly comparable AI coding assistant integrated into a fork of VS Code, serving the same individual developer and engineering team segments that Kilo targets with similar code generation, refactoring, and multi-model support.
• Cline: Cline is an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code that closely parallels Kilo's positioning, offering multi-model support and agentic workflows with similar target users and extensibility model.

Emerging players

• Continue.dev: Continue is an open-source AI code assistant that integrates with VS Code and JetBrains, offering similar model-agnostic and open-source positioning to Kilo for the same developer persona.

Broad incumbents

• GitHub Copilot: GitHub Copilot, owned by Microsoft and deeply integrated into the GitHub ecosystem, is the broad incumbent AI coding assistant targeting individual developers, teams, and enterprises with multi-model support and IDE coverage that overlaps with Kilo's reach.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/kilosocialai
• GitHubgithub.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@Kilo-Code
• LinkedInkilo.codes/31Yfadd
• Instagramkilo.codes/spNJF0y
• Facebookfacebook.com/kilosocialai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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