A decision for a beginner, not a spec sheet. Scores are our weights. Prices are the public plans, and anything marked verify on the tool page should be re-checked before you pay.
Pick Kiro if you want a web app or automation you will keep in a repo and review as a diff.
Pick Replit if you are learning by building a web app, script, or simple browser game in one place.
An agentic IDE that turns a prompt into a spec, then into a diff.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Pro · $20/user/mo
A browser IDE and agent, closest thing here to an all-in-one starter.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Core · $20/mo
Web app or SaaS
Mobile app
Game
Website or landing page
Automation or script
No code
I can follow a change
I already develop
Last verified 2026-10-19
Individual
Free
Verified50 credits a month. Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models such as Qwen3 Coder Next, DeepSeek 3.2, and MiniMax M2.1, with rate limits. No add-on credits. Kiro Web is not included.
The 50-credit free allowance is on the pricing page and the billing docs. The free tier is not offered on Kiro Enterprise or in AWS GovCloud.
Individual
$20/user/mo
Verified1,000 credits a month. Premium models, including Auto, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Opus 5, where those models are available. Add-on credits at $0.04. Kiro Web uses the same credits.
Price is on kiro.dev/pricing. The credit count is on the billing docs. Prices exclude tax. A first upgrade with social login or Builder ID gets a $20 credit toward the subscription, prorated for the partial month.
Individual
$40/user/mo
Verified2,000 credits a month, with the same paid-plan model access and add-on credits as Pro.
Price on the pricing page. Credit count on the billing docs.
Individual
$100/user/mo
Verified5,000 credits a month. The same feature set as Power, including specs, custom subagents, powers, and hooks.
The $100 price and the 5,000-credit count are on the pricing page's tier list, the billing docs, and Kiro's Pro Max announcement.
Individual
$200/user/mo
Verified10,000 credits a month, the largest self-serve pool, plus add-on credits at $0.04.
Price on the pricing page. Credit count on the billing docs. AWS GovCloud is approximately 20% higher and has no free tier. That regional markup is not a separate dollar row here.
Last verified 2026-10-19
Individual
Free
VerifiedDaily Agent allowance and Free Mode with a daily cap. One published app, listed as 30-day on the Core comparison table. Built-in database. Exact daily credit count is not a single published number.
The 30-day publish window is on the Core plan comparison table. The daily credit count is still not one published number.
Individual
$20/mo
VerifyOn 2026-10-19 the pricing page showed $18/mo billed annually next to $20. The page still mixes the subscription price, the annual rate, and the $20 credit line.
$20 toward more powerful models. The pricing page listed up to 30 hours of Free Mode chat and up to 60 projects on Free Mode. Credits do not roll over.
Core docs list 1 active background task. The pricing page on 2026-10-19 did not print a parallel-task count. The $20 subscription figure is used for matching and marked verify because the page layout mixes it with the annual rate and the credit line.
Individual
$100/mo
VerifyThe pricing page showed $90/mo billed annually on 2026-10-19.
$100 toward more powerful models, more Free Mode usage, up to 15 collaborators, and database rollback up to 28 days. Docs say unused credits roll for two months.
The $100 list price is consistent. The $90 annual rate is marked verify with the rest of this card because the pricing page markup is easy to misread.
Plan credits renew at the start of the next billing cycle. Paid subscriptions are processed on the 1st of each calendar month. Unused plan credits do not roll over. Add-on credits, which are paid plans only, last 12 months.
On Free, wait for the monthly reset. Add-on credits cannot be bought on this tier, and Kiro Web is not included.
Starter keeps a daily cap. Core and Pro Free Mode allowances reset every five hours and also have weekly limits, per Replit's plan docs. Core credits reset each billing cycle and do not roll over. Pro credits roll for two months.
Stay in Free Mode for everyday agent work. Power and Max spend credits and Replit asks before a paid action.
Kiro Pro and Replit Core are both listed at $20/user/mo. Replit Core is marked verify.
Kiro is for a web app or automation you will keep in a repo and review as a diff, developers who want requirements and tasks written down before the agent edits, and a published monthly credit number, instead of an unpublished quota.
Replit is for learning by building a web app, script, or simple browser game in one place, people who want an IDE without installing one, and a project that needs hosting and a database next to the agent.
Kiro scores 2 out of 5 for someone who does not want to read code. Replit scores 4 out of 5. Replit has the higher no-code score. Specs are written in plain language, and you still end up reading a diff. If code on screen is a dealbreaker, use a browser builder. Agent can carry a beginner, and you are still looking at an IDE. Expect files.
Kiro: 50 credits a month on the perpetual free tier, with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models, subject to rate limits. Add-on credits are not available. Kiro Web is not on this plan. Replit: Daily Agent credits and Free Mode with a daily cap, a built-in database, and one published project. The pricing page does not state one universal credit number.