Aide vs Kiro
Aide is an AI-native IDE by CodeStory. Kiro is an AI-native IDE by Amazon Web Services. Every cell below is read from the directory data and points back to a vendor page.
 Aide |  Kiro | |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Layer | AI-native IDE | AI-native IDE, Terminal agent, Cloud agent |
| Vendor | CodeStory | Amazon Web Services |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, Linux | macOS, Windows, Linux, Web, iOS |
| License | AGPL-3.0-only Open source | Proprietary Proprietary |
| Status | sunset | active |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry price | Free | Free |
| Top individual plan | Free | $200/mo |
| Team seat | — | Contact sales |
| Included usage | — | 1,000 credits/mo Pro |
| Beyond the plan | — | Blocked, Credit packs |
| Part of a plan | — | — |
| Models | ||
| Providers | Vendor models, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter | Anthropic, OpenAI, MiniMax, Zhipu, DeepSeek, Alibaba |
| Bring your own key | BYOK | No BYOK |
| Local models | Yes | No |
| Features | ||
| Subagents | No | Yes |
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| ACP agent | No | Yes |
| Sandboxing | No | Yes |
| Mobile companion | No | Yes |
| Scheduled tasks | No | Yes |
| Checkpoints | No | Yes |
| Plugins | No | Yes |
| Hooks | No | Yes |
| Tab completion | Yes | No |
| Works with | ||
| Runs | — | — |
| Runs inside | — | — |
| Pricing verified | 2026-08-23 | 2026-08-23 |