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Kiro

by Amazon

3.2M / mo
Free / $20/mo
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Kiro is an agentic IDE built by AWS that treats a written spec, not a chat prompt, as the unit of work: the agent plans a feature, writes the design and data-flow docs, then implements, tests, and documents it end to end. It ships as both a desktop app and a CLI, supports Open VSX extensions and VS Code settings import, and needs no AWS account to try.

Kiro features and capabilities, including which plan they need and how they compare in the CanIUse matrix.

amazonAdded 2026-07-29Catalog rank 5

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✨ Modalities

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Text Input
Yes, requires free plan. Prompts become specs (requirements, design, tasks) then implementation.
🖼️
Image Upload / Vision
Partial. Homepage mentions multimodal inputs and Figma as context. A general image-upload vision API was not separately documented.
🎨
Image Generation
No. A coding agent, not an image model.
🎙️
Voice Mode
No. No conversational voice loop is documented.
🎥
Video Understanding
No. Not a video-analysis product.
🎬
Video Generation
No. Not a video generation product.
📁
File Upload (PDF, DOCX)
Yes, requires free plan. Works on local workspaces and, on the web, GitHub/GitLab repos in cloud sandboxes.
💻
Code Execution
Yes, requires free plan. Agents implement, test, and can run headless in CI. Web sessions run in isolated sandboxes.
🔊
Audio Input
No. No audio-file input is documented.
🖌️
Canvas / Artifact Editor
Unknown. Overlapping columns disagreed (partial vs yes); left unverified rather than copying a no.
🖥️
Screen Sharing / Computer Use
No. No computer-use desktop takeover is documented. Agents edit the workspace.

🧠 Memory & Context

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Persistent Memory
Yes, requires free plan. Steering files (.kiro/steering/, ~/.kiro/steering/, AGENTS.md) persist conventions across sessions and surfaces.
📏
Large Context Window
Unknown. Uses multiple FMs via Bedrock/Auto. No token window is published on the pricing page.
⚙️
Custom Instructions
Yes, requires free plan. Steering markdown (always / fileMatch / manual) plus AGENTS.md.
📜
Conversation History
Yes, requires free plan. IDE, CLI, web, and Crew keep sessions. Web sandboxes keep running after you close the laptop.

🔌 Integrations

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Web Search / Browsing
Unknown. MCP can pull tools; a first-party live-web search toggle was not confirmed.
🔌
Plugins / Extensions
Yes, requires free plan. MCP, Agent Client Protocol, Open VSX extensions, Skills.md, and 500+ CLI tools.
🔧
API Access
Partial. Headless CLI in CI/CD and ACP into other IDEs. That is not a public REST generate API.
⚡
Zapier Integration
Unknown. No first-party Zapier app was checked.
🤖
Custom GPTs / Bots
Yes, requires free plan. Custom agents plus steering; ACP into other tools. Kiro Crew is the open-source coordinator.
👥
Real-time Collaboration
Partial. Team billing and shared steering. Live multiplayer cursors were not documented.
🐦
Live Social Data Integration
No. Not a live social-firehose product.
📚
Live Citation Mapping
No. Not a cited-search product.

👨‍💻 Developer

🛠️
Function Calling
Yes, requires free plan. Agents take actions (implement, test, hooks, MCP tools), not chat-only replies.
⚡
Streaming Responses
Unknown. Token streaming is not documented as an API contract.
🎛️
Fine-Tuning
No. You pick models (Auto, Claude, GPT, open-weight). No custom-weight training product.
📐
Embeddings API
No. Not an embeddings API.
📋
Structured Output (JSON)
Partial. Specs and property-based tests are structured artifacts. Not a JSON-schema chat API.
🧩
Reasoning / Thinking Mode
Unknown. Overlapping columns disagreed (yes vs partial); left unverified rather than copying a no.
🏠
Local Execution
Yes, requires free plan. IDE and Crew run on your machine; web sandboxes are cloud. Models are hosted.
🔓
Open Weights
Partial. You can select open-weight models (Qwen, DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM). The Kiro product itself is not an open-weight release except Crew.
🤖
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Yes, requires free plan. Parallel agents implement tasks; hooks fire on IDE events; Crew coordinates tools.

📱 Platforms

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Web App
Yes, requires plus plan. Kiro on the web (preview) is for paid Pro+ tiers; sandboxes keep running in the cloud.
📱
iOS App
Yes, requires plus plan. Homepage: sign in on mobile with a paid account. Store listing OS split was not opened this round; Google/Apple both implied by “mobile app”.
🤖
Android App
Unknown. A mobile app is documented; Android vs iOS split was not confirmed on a store page.
🖥️
Desktop App
Yes, requires free plan. Downloadable IDE for the OS; Open VSX + VS Code settings import.
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Chrome Extension
No. Not distributed as a Chrome extension.

🔒 Privacy

🔒
GDPR Compliant
Unknown. Needs an AWS DPA read for Kiro specifically.
🚫
Opt Out of Data Training
Unknown. Enterprise privacy is advertised; a consumer training opt-out toggle was not checked.
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Enterprise Privacy Mode
Yes, requires enterprise plan. IAM, SSO, usage dashboards, IP indemnity, GovCloud, centralized billing.

💼 Workspaces

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Projects / Folders
Yes, requires free plan. Workspace .kiro/specs and steering; Crew is a persistent local workspace.