Kiro CLI vs. Plandex

Feature	Kiro CLI	Plandex

Tagline	AI coding agent by Amazon	Open source AI coding agent for large projects and real world tasks
Website	https://kiro.dev/cli	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Language	rust	go
Release Date	November 17, 2025	March 14, 2024
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 11, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration		None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Not disclosed	2M tokens effective
Supported Models	Frontier and open weight models with auto routing: Opus / Sonnet 4.6, MiniMax 2.5, DeepSeek 3.2, Qwen3.	Any OpenAI-compatible models and 400+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free / $0-200/mo	Free (self-hosted)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	N/A	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Development State	active	inactive