Kiro
Kiro (AMZN) is a publicly traded AI IDEs and Editors company founded in 2025 and based in Seattle, United States.
AWS, the cloud unit of Seattle-based Amazon, launched Kiro in preview on July 14, 2025 and made it generally available on Nov. 17, 2025. Built on Code OSS, the Kiro IDE turns a prompt into requirements, a technical design and sequenced tasks, then runs agents, hooks and property-based tests against that spec. Kiro CLI, built on technology from the Amazon Q Developer CLI, brings the same agents to the terminal, and Kiro Web, introduced May 18, 2026, runs coding sessions in cloud sandboxes and opens pull requests. Kiro sells credit-based plans, from a free tier to Pro at $20 a month and Power at $200 a month, with enterprise plans billed through AWS. AWS closed new Amazon Q Developer sign-ups on May 15, 2026 and ends support for the Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027, moving those users to Kiro.
Kiro carries Amazon's AI coding business against Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Codex, and in May 2026 AWS began moving Amazon Q Developer users onto it. More than 100,000 developers tried the IDE within five days of its July 2025 launch, and enterprise users include Siemens, Appian and SmugMug. Its enterprise plans sign in through AWS IAM Identity Center and bill through AWS, giving it a route into existing AWS accounts.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
10k+
Headquarters
Seattle
United StatesFounded
2025
Status
Public
Subsector
DevTools & AI Coding, ranked
Top 25 DevTools & AI Coding companies →Funding history
Total raised
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Rounds tracked
0
No dated funding rounds on file. This company is privately held and may be raising or operating on undisclosed capital.