Kiro CLI vs. Qwen Code

Feature	Kiro CLI	Qwen Code

Tagline	AI coding agent by Amazon	An open-source AI agent that lives in your terminal
Website	https://kiro.dev/cli	https://qwen.ai/qwencode
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	November 17, 2025	August 1, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration		VS Code, Zed, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Not disclosed	Model dependent
Supported Models	Frontier and open weight models with auto routing: Opus / Sonnet 4.6, MiniMax 2.5, DeepSeek 3.2, Qwen3.	Qwen series models, compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini APIs, including models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free / $0-200/mo	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	N/A	https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code
Development State	active	active