Kiro: A new agentic IDE

For anyone wondering, Amazon already offers an Agentic coding CLI similar to Claude Code: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli

It has a pretty decent free tier, and maybe the subscription is better value than Claude Code, but hard to tell.

It supports MCP as well.

Amazon Q also has a VC Code and IntelliJ Idea plugin too, Kiro goes beyond what you can do as a plugin in VS Code though, similar to why Cursor had to fork VS Code.

Q CLI is great. It’s basically Claude models but pretty much unlimited and only for $20

Not as polished as Claude Code but also a bit price difference

That sounds too good to be true, and it seems like they are indeed introducing a usage system similar to their competitors next month?

> Starting August 1, 2025, we’re introducing a new pricing plan for Amazon Q Developer designed to make things simpler and more valuable for developers.

> Pro Tier: Expanded limits $19/mo. per user

> 1,000 agentic requests per month included (starting 8/1/2025)

- https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/

Previously agentic use was apparently "free", but with a set deadline in June, so it seems like this was just for a testing phase?

Q CLI has so many issues though, injects so much junk into you shell profiles it can slow down your terminal invocations by seconds, and it doesn't support standard streamableHttp / SSE MCP servers.

That's for the shell auto-complete feature which I turn off.

50 request per month? Am I reading that correctly? If that's the case it is pityful.

just turn those off, it's just 2 includes one at the top and one at the bottom of your shell... file a ticket about making it optional or not. I believe that the shell integration / autocomplete is where they started the product so it's probably one of those core features in the product team's minds.

I generally like the integration but in some cases it's getting in the way of other ai that is runnin q to quit and all of a sudden its in q... I renamed it to amazonq and removed it from my zshrc and added it as a command to integrate, amazonqinit

I turn that stuff off and just use `q chat` for everything, which actually works very well in my experience.

I'm the one that logged this: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/issues/844 Amazon really have dropped the ball with fixing it.

It's not that simple: https://github.com/aws/amazon-q-developer-cli/issues/844

That's on the free plan. It's 1000 on the 19$ subscription, or 3000 on the 39$ one.

If you go over the limit, it's $.04 / request.

This seems to only be impacting if you have the shell integration configured no?

I don't have the hooks installed and the integration is disabled. I'm only using the q command for agentic coding, not for shell auto-complete.