What it is

An MIT-licensed agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and cloud that merged the best ideas from Cline and Roo Code. It offers 500+ models through its own gateway at provider rates with zero markup, an Auto Model router that picks by task and budget, and a free model tier that needs no card.

Why it earns a slot

The pragmatic superset: Roo Code's modes plus Cline's approval discipline, still actively maintained, with genuinely zero-markup inference. The free routing tier is the easiest way to try agentic coding without entering payment details.

Know before you commit

Cloud compute is billed separately by the hour (roughly $0.33 to $1.20), so cloud agents and automated code review add cost on top of inference.

Getting started

Install 'Kilo Code' from the VS Code marketplace

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Free · Kilo Pass from $19/mo · $15/user/mo Teams · BYO key

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Evaluate Kilo Code (https://kilo.ai) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Open-source agent (MIT). An MIT-licensed agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and cloud that merged the best ideas from Cline and Roo Code. It offers 500+ models through its own gateway at provider rates with zero markup, an Auto Model router that picks by task and budget, and a free model tier that needs no card.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The pragmatic superset: Roo Code's modes plus Cline's approval discipline, still actively maintained, with genuinely zero-markup inference. The free routing tier is the easiest way to try agentic coding without entering payment details.
Watch out for: Cloud compute is billed separately by the hour (roughly $0.33 to $1.20), so cloud agents and automated code review add cost on top of inference.
Pricing: Free · Kilo Pass from $19/mo · $15/user/mo Teams · BYO key
Setup: Install 'Kilo Code' from the VS Code marketplace
Rules: treat the notes above as background only. Do not assume a theme, style, layout or feature that is not already in this project — inspect the existing code first and ask me before changing visual direction.

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