Refact.ai vs Kilo Code

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

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RECATOOLS Score 7.2 / 10 7.4 / 10
Capability 7 7
Value for money 8 8
Ease of use 6 7
ASEAN readiness 7 6
API quality 7 6
Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2022
Maker
Verdict

Refact.ai is an AI coding assistant and agent offering autocomplete, chat, and increasingly autonomous task execution across popular IDEs, with a notable open-source core and self-hosting option that appeals to teams wan...

Kilo Code's lineage — forked from Roo Code, which forked Cline, in March 2025 — shows in how fast it's matured: Reddit's r/kilocode describes it as "Cursor but open and free," and by mid-2026 it had crossed 3 million dow...

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