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 v0 if you are landing pages and React UI.
An agentic IDE that turns a prompt into a spec, then into a diff.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Pro · $20/user/mo
A browser UI builder for React interfaces and landing pages.
Cheapest verified paid plan: Plus · $30/user/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
Verified7 messages a day. Credit grant is the current offer: $5 once for new accounts on the one-time offer, or $5 a month for existing free users. Confirm which offer your account has.
The message cap is documented. The credit offer is account-specific, which is called out in the limits rather than guessed.
Individual
$20/mo
Verified$20 of credits a month. v0's docs say Premium is being sunset and is no longer available to new users.
Shown so you do not plan on it. Excluded from budget matching for that reason.
Individual
$30/user/mo
Verified$30 of included monthly credits per user and $2 of daily credits on login. Extra credits can be purchased. Team sharing and centralized billing.
This is the paid plan the pricing page offers new users. On 2026-10-19 that page showed $30/user/month with $90 struck through beside it. The docs also list Plus at $30/user/month.
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.
Free is capped at 7 messages a day. Paid plans are credit-based. Unused monthly credits roll one cycle and expire after 65 days. Purchased credits expire after one year and need an active paid plan to spend.
On Free, wait until the next day. Seven messages go quickly if you regenerate the whole page.
Kiro's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Pro at $20/user/mo. v0's cheapest paid plan the ranking counts is Plus at $30/user/mo.
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.
v0 is for landing pages and React UI, a frontend you will deploy on Vercel, and people who want to see a design before they think about a backend.
Kiro scores 2 out of 5 for someone who does not want to read code. v0 scores 4 out of 5. v0 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. You can prompt a page into existence. You will still see React if you open the code.
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. v0: 7 messages a day, plus a credit offer that depends on the account. New signups under the one-time offer get $5 once. Existing free users may still have $5 a month. Check billing settings.