Editor & IDE

Kiro

Amazon's spec-driven agentic IDE — an agent writes a formal specification from your request before generating code, keeping implementation traceable back to intent.

Pricing

Free tier (50 agent credits/mo), paid usage tiers above that

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Kiro is AWS’s agentic IDE, built around “spec-driven development”: instead of jumping straight from a prompt to code, it first produces a written specification and task breakdown for you to review, then implements against that spec — a departure from AWS’s usual approach of tying developer tools tightly to its own cloud services, since Kiro is cloud-agnostic.

Why it stands out

Specs before code creates a reviewable artifact of intent, not just a diff, closing a common gap in fast agentic workflows.
Cloud-agnostic, unlike Amazon Q Developer — it isn’t tied to AWS infrastructure specifically.
Built on Claude models, with a full IDE experience rather than a CLI or extension.

Good for

Teams that want an auditable trail from requirements to implementation, not just a fast diff.