Amazon Q Developer vs Kiro
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant, closed to new users and sunsetting in 2027
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Kiro
AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE — plans before it codes
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium |
| Free tier | Closed to new users since 15 May 2026; existing Builder ID users keep 50 agentic requests/mo and 1,000 lines/mo of Java upgrades | Free tier: 50 credits a month with open-weight models and Claude Sonnet 4.5 (rate-limited); not available in Enterprise or GovCloud |
| Paid from | Pro $19/user/mo, existing subscriptions only; new sign-ups closed 15 May 2026, EOS 30 Apr 2027 | From $20/user/mo (Pro, 1,000 credits); add-on credits $0.04 each |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 |
| Maker | Amazon (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) | Amazon Web Services |
| Verdict | Amazon Q Developer is no longer something to adopt: AWS closed it to new sign-ups in May 2026 and ends the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on 30 April 2027, steering developers to Kiro, where the newest coding models... |
Kiro's spec-first approach — requirements, design and tasks before any code — is a genuine answer to the mess fast AI coding can leave behind, and it has grown quickly since general availability in November 2025: a CLI,... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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