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Is Kiro still around? (2026)

Yes. Kiro is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.

Status LiveFrom $20/moFree tierVerified Sep 8, 2026Category · AI Coding Assistants
Vital signs over time
Price · lowest paid plan
$20

Held steady at $20/mo the whole tracked window (20 days).

Reachability · by day

Reachable 100% of 20 tracked days.

First-party daily snapshots. One reading per day, grows over time.

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What Kiro is

What sets it apart spec-driven workflow that plans requirements and tasks up front

Best for teams that want structured specs before an agent writes code · Pricing model free tier (50 credits); Pro $20, Pro+ $40, Pro Max $100, Power $200; credit-based

Kiro is AWS's agentic IDE built around spec-driven development, turning a prompt into requirements, design, and tasks before it writes code. It runs on frontier models such as Claude Sonnet plus specialized models, across IDE, CLI, and web. AWS positions it as its main coding tool as it winds down the older Amazon Q Developer subscriptions.

Sources kiro.dev

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The fine print, checked

What the free plan really caps, whether your data can leave, and how cancelling works. Each fact read on Kiro's own pages, linked below.

Free plan limits

The Free plan gives 50 credits per month with access to open weight models and Claude Sonnet 4.5, subject to rate limits. The cheapest paid plan is Pro at $20 per user per month with 1,000 credits.

Kiro Pricing · checked Aug 1, 2026

Data export

You can export a chat session by right-clicking the chat tab and choosing Export Chat, which saves a zip file. It contains session.json (metadata) and messages.jsonl (the full conversation as newline-delimited JSON) with prompts, responses, tool calls and code blocks; exports are read-only and cannot be reimported.

Kiro Docs - Export sessions · checked Aug 1, 2026

Cancellation

Cancellation is self-serve: open the profile icon, choose Manage Plan, and downgrade to Kiro Free in your browser. You are billed on the first day of the month, so cancelling mid-month keeps your plan until the end of that month and moves you to Free next billing cycle; unused add-on credits stay available until they expire.

Kiro Docs - Cancelling your plan · checked Aug 1, 2026

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Use it, or see the field

Kiro is live and price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026. If it fits, go straight to it. If you are comparing, see the full ranked field in AI Coding Assistants - only tools our health checks report as alive.

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Straight answers

Is Kiro shutting down?
There is no official sunset announcement for Kiro as of Sep 8, 2026. It is reachable and price-verified; a "dead" status is set only by an editor, never by an automated check.
How much does Kiro cost?
Its lowest paid plan starts at $20/mo (verified Sep 8, 2026). The price links to the vendor's live pricing page as its source, so you can confirm the current figure at any time.
Does Kiro have a free tier?
Yes, Kiro offers a permanent free plan (not just a trial) as of Sep 8, 2026.