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GAI coding assistant and agents for editors, terminal, desktop and GitHub
Free, from $10/mo
Cursor vs Kilo Code
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
C
Choose Cursor if…
- you want the lower entry price ($8/mo vs $15/mo)
- you're in its core audience: software developers, engineering teams
K
Choose Kilo Code if…
- you want open source you can self-host or audit
- you work on VS Code, JetBrains, Windows
- you're in its core audience: software developers, engineering teams
Side by side
Feature Cursor Kilo Code
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starting price$8/mo$15/mo
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Trains AI on your contentYes, unless you opt out—
Data retentionKept only as long as necessary for operations and legitimate business needs—
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001—
Updates, last 90 days5—
GitHub stars—27.8K
Agent mode
Tab completion—
CLI / terminal
Cloud agents
AI PR review
Bring your own key—
Local / self-hosted models—
MCP support—
PlatformsmacOS, Web, SlackVS Code, JetBrains, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, Slack, Self-hosted
CategoryCode AssistantsCode Assistants
CompanyAnysphere, Inc.Kilo Code, Inc.
Based in—United States
Founded—2025
Part ofSpaceXAnaconda
Key features
C Cursor
- Agent mode that plans and builds features from prompts
- Cloud agents running tasks in parallel on own machines
- Command-line agent installable via curl
- Slack integration that opens pull requests
- AI code reviews on GitHub PRs via Bugbot
- Model choice across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, SpaceXAI, Cursor
- Cmd+K targeted inline edits
- Privacy mode excluding code from training
K Kilo Code
- Ask, Plan, Code, Debug and Custom agent modes
- 500+ models from 60+ providers at no markup
- Bring your own API keys
- Local models via Ollama or LM Studio
- Auto Model routing across Efficient, Frontier and Free tiers
- Parallel agents in isolated worktrees
- Cloud agents and AI code review
- CLI for shells, scripts and CI jobs
Plans and prices
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Cursor
Free$0/month
Plus$8/month
Premium$30/month
Super$100/month
Ultra$200/month
Teams$30+/user/month
EnterpriseCustom
Kilo Code
Free & Open SourceFree
Teams$15/user/month
EnterpriseCustom
Kilo PassFrom $19/mo
Strengths and limitations
Cursor
- Free plan available
- Works in desktop, terminal, Slack and GitHub
- Supports models from several providers
- SOC 2, ISO27001 and ISO42001 certified
- Plus plan is limited to Grok models
- Third-party model usage is billed separately at API list price
- Cloud agents and code reviews require Premium ($30/month) or higher
- Prices exclude taxes
Kilo Code
- Free and MIT-licensed open source, with self-hosting possible
- Gateway inference billed at exact provider rates with no markup
- Supports BYOK and local models
- Available in VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, cloud, Slack and mobile
- Inference and cloud compute are billed separately from the plan
- 5% processing fee on credit purchases
- Desktop app is still in beta
- Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales
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