Kiro AlternativesOnly apps categorised as AI Coding Assistants

The best AI Coding Assistant alternative to Kiro is Gemini CLI, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Kiro and many of them are AI Coding Assistants so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting AI Coding Assistant alternatives to Kiro are Windsurf Editor, Google Antigravity, Cursor and Mellum.

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  1. Gemini CLI icon
     25 likes

    Open-source terminal AI connects to development tools, understands and edits code, generates, explains, and refactors using natural language, automates complex workflows, executes shell commands, grounds interactions with search, and supports extensibility via protocols and prompts.

    40 Gemini CLI alternatives

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    • Gemini CLI is the most popular Open Source alternative to Kiro.

    • Gemini CLI is Free and Open SourceKiro is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Windsurf Editor icon
     33 likes

    Windsurf Editor is an IDE merging AI and developers for lockstep collaboration with Cascade capabilities, boosting speed and contextual coding through copilot and agent-like systems across Mac, Windows, and Linux.

    63 Windsurf Editor alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Google Antigravity is an agentic IDE and coding environment designed to support real world software projects through autonomous development workflows. It provides an agent first workspace where developers set direction while AI agents carry out tasks such as coding, debugging...

    33 Google Antigravity alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
     
  4. Mellum icon
     19 likes

    Mellum-4b-base is JetBrains' first open-source large language model (LLM) optimized for code-related tasks.

    66 Mellum alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
    • Mellum is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Kiro.

    • Mellum is Free and Open SourceKiro is Freemium and Proprietary
  5. GitHub Copilot icon
     34 likes

    GitHub Copilot leverages the power of OpenAI Codex to provide real-time suggestions for code and complete functions, all within your editor. With its training on vast amounts of code, GitHub Copilot translates natural language prompts into coding suggestions across multiple...

    91 GitHub Copilot alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Neovim
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
     
  6. OpenAI Codex icon
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    Automates code writing, editing, and answering codebase questions using secure cloud sandboxes and local terminal agents, enables parallel task execution, handles pull requests, integrates with repositories, and supports ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users.

    71 OpenAI Codex alternatives

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    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
     
    • OpenAI Codex is the most popular SaaS alternative to Kiro.

    • OpenAI Codex is the most popular commercial alternative to Kiro.

    • OpenAI Codex is Paid and ProprietaryKiro is Freemium and Proprietary
    • OpenAI Codex is LightweightKiro is not according to our users
  7. Trae icon
     14 likes

    Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.

    36 Trae alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  8. TabbyML icon
     20 likes

    Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant. With Tabby, every team can set up its own LLM-powered code completion server with ease.

    74 TabbyML alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  9. Jules icon
     9 likes

    Jules is an asynchronous agent that gets out of your way. It lets you focus on the coding you want to do, meawnwhile picking up all the other random tasks that you rather not do.

    69 Jules alternatives

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    • Freemium (Subscription)
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    • Online
    • GitHub
     
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