Kilo / Anaconda Works from Russia Code and terminal
Kilo Code
Terminal, IDE, desktop and cloud in one program; open, free clients, $15 per seat for a team, models at the provider's rates with no markup.
Price and access
- Free?
- The program is free, the model is paid
- Price
- clients are free; Teams $15 per seat
- From Russia
- The client is open source and runs on your own key; you pay the model provider you choose.
- Models
- свой ключ, без наценки
- Licence
- MIT
- Our benchmark
- Models in our benchmark →
Official pricing page ↗ Checked 3 November 2026.
What changed in price and access
- Kilo added NVIDIA models: the multimodal Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and the free Nemotron 3 Super ↗
- Anaconda, Kilo's owner, joined the Linux Foundation-led Open Secure AI Alliance to build shared open tools for securing agents ↗
- Kilo released a desktop app (beta) and the Kilo Gateway, a single API gateway that accepts your own provider keys ↗
- Kilo added sign-in with ChatGPT, letting the ChatGPT subscription pay for usage across its cloud surfaces ↗
- Kilo offers Cursor enterprise customers Kilo Enterprise free for the rest of their Cursor contract, up to 12 months; apply by 30 November, model usage billed separately ↗
Changes for this tool in total: 17. The full feed for all agents →
What it gives a manager
- AI adoption dashboard: a score for frequency, depth and coverage with weekly trends shows who on the team is not using the agent
- A daily spend cap per person, plus alerts by email and mobile push when spend crosses a limit or suddenly spikes
- Automatic review of every pull request in GitHub and GitLab against the repo's REVIEW.md, so the whole team gets the same bar
- Enterprise: SSO and SCIM, audit logs, an allowlist of models and providers, sub-organizations with their own budgets and credits
Weak points
- GitHub #1388: the extension silently switched to Kilo's hosted Sonnet and burned credits even for users on their own key.
- GitHub #1557: a balance dropped from $74.50 to $0.03 with no recorded usage, and the team closed the issue as "not planned".
- GitHub #3767: a 340-line file sent the agent into a loop, context grew from 140k to 262k tokens, and a $0.10 review cost $7.59.
- Trustpilot 2.6 from 17 reviews, 59% one-star: slow responses, the agent circling one task, and a panel with no tabs.
How to check this agent’s work
- Set a daily spend cap per person and alerts: overspending shows the same day.
- Kilo code review on GitHub or GitLab is a second look; your review rules go in REVIEW.md.
- Check a model's Enkrypt safety score before allowing it for the team.
Picking an agent takes an evening. After that the question is not the price but whether you can trust what it did.
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We will write when enrolment opens. Meanwhile, here is what the course covers.
The short course programmeWhat the course covers: programme and price
Strengths
- VS Code, JetBrains and CLI extensions are free and MIT-licensed, and work with any model.
- Kilo Gateway routes to 500+ models from 60+ providers at provider rates with no markup; your own key or a local model costs $0.
- Slack bot: mention @Kilo in a thread and it opens a branch and submits a pull request, working out which repo you mean.
- Teams is $15 per user a month: analytics, shared agents and keys, central billing, a 14-day Enterprise trial; cloud billed per second.
Alternatives
ZCode
Kimi Code CLI
DeepSeek HarnessWho it is for
- Team that needs terminal, IDE, and a predictable per-seat bill
- Manager who needs per-person spend caps and a report on how the team adopts AI
Example from a review: A week checking five Kilo claims
The reviewer spent a week testing five of Kilo's marketing claims against the docs, the Kilobench leaderboard and open GitHub issues. Bring-your-own-key with no markup and the Slack bot that ships a pull request from a thread both held up. The "$0 a month, no hidden costs" claim fell apart on documented charges: $74.50 gone with no usage, and $7.59 for a review that should have cost $0.10. Final tally: three claims verified, one wrong, one a tie.
Source: Bryan Software, Kilo Code: My Honest Take After a Week
Reviews (2)
The video authors’ opinions, not our conclusions.
- Kilo Code ai Review: The Best Free Alternative to Cursor and Claude Code · Riflo animations, 8 September 2026In the reviewer's view, Kilo is the best free alternative to Cursor for tinkerers willing to supervise the agent; it is not automatically cheaper and is less polished.
- Kilo Code: My Honest Take After a Week · Bryan Software, 28 August 2026The reviewer recommends Kilo for model freedom and Slack-native pull requests, but only with hard spending limits; anyone who cannot tolerate unpredictable billing should pick Cursor.
Facts with sources
- Acquired by Anaconda on July 15; about 10 trillion tokens a month pass through the platform from 3 million developers. Source (in Russian)
- A 5% fee applies only to topping up credits; there's no markup on top of the provider's rates. Source (in Russian)
- An organization can set a daily spend cap per person (it resets at midnight UTC), and alerts fire when spend crosses a 24-hour, 7-day or 30-day limit or spikes within an hour. Source
- Enterprise adds SSO, OIDC and SCIM, audit logs, model and provider restrictions, and sub-organizations with their own members, credits and policies; pricing on request. Source
- Since 13 October the Kilo MCP server answers, from inside an agent chat, how much was spent and on what, and starts cloud agents without the web app. Source
