{"name":"Kilo Code","tagline":"MIT-licensed coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and cloud — models at provider rates, no markup.","url":"https://kilo.ai","category":"coding","pricing":"freemium","price_note":"individual platform $0; Teams $15/user/mo; Kilo Pass from $19/mo; Gateway at provider rates + 5% credit-purchase fee; cloud compute from $0.33–$1.20/h","free_tier":true,"open_source":true,"api":true,"self_host":true,"model_routing":"byok","verdict":"situational","verdict_text":"Open-source agent with a zero-markup gateway is the pitch, and the public price page actually separates platform / inference / cloud compute. Solo with BYOK or local models is free; Teams and Pass are optional. Auto-routing and a 5% credit fee still need watching. Not a Ship without a repo run.","limitations":["Three meters (platform, inference, cloud compute) make a real bill three line items.","Credit top-ups carry a 5% processing fee on the published card.","Cloud agents bill per second on top of tokens; idle VMs are not free.","\"Free models\" via Auto Free depend on whatever the gateway currently offers."],"strengths":["Open-source agent with a zero-markup gateway at provider rates.","Public pricing separates platform, inference and cloud compute meters.","Solo use with BYOK or local models is free."],"use_for":["Solo developers who want a free coding agent with their own API keys.","Teams that prefer an open, self-hostable agent over a black-box editor."],"skip_when":["Three separate meters make your bill unpredictable.","A 5% credit top-up fee and Auto-routing uncertainty bother you.","You are not willing to run and verify the open-source repo yourself."],"receipts":["https://kilo.ai/pricing","https://kilo.ai/docs/gateway/usage-and-billing","https://github.com/Kilo-Org/kilocode"],"affiliate":"none","evidence_tier":"source-verified","momentum":"blueshift","featured":false,"data_sensitivity":{"trains_on_inputs":"unknown","local_processing":true},"last_verified":"2026-08-24","observed_by":"whysanesanders","slug":"kilo-code","canonical_url":"https://noemium.com/tools/kilo-code/","attribution":"Noemium catalog data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). See https://noemium.com/method/ for how entries are verified."}