Pricing and cadence split Objective evenly — 0.2 of the total each.
Fewer than 3 votes on record → neutral 0.50, shown as provisional rather than as a real reading.
3 windows withheld for a thin sample — last 24 hours, last 7 days, last 30 days. Withheld, not averaged in as a zero.
No window clears the 5-post floor → neutral 0.50, shown as provisional.
2 windows withheld for a thin sample — last 7 days, last 30 days. Withheld, not averaged in as a zero.
Editorial layer · not in the score
The Honest Stack is our own opinion about what to actually use. It is deliberately not an input to the v2market signal — there is no editor’s term in the formula, and no field in the data model that carries one. Read it as a second, human opinion beside the number, never as part of it.
Entered at catalog seed — pending verification.
Kiro offers a free tier with 50 credits, and paid individual plans: Pro for $20/month with 1,000 credits, Pro+ for $40/month with 2,000 credits, Pro Max for $100/month with 5,000 credits, and Power for $200/month with 10,000 credits, all with add-on credits available at $0.04/credit.
Daily net of anonymous better/same/worse votes. Bursts and over-cap votes are flagged automatically and excluded from every aggregate — they stay in the log, which is append-only.
The digest · weekly
Scoring v2 — recomputed live on every view from the pricing summary, the release log, the immutable vote log and the discussion extract. Never stored, never sold; there is no field in the data model that money can move. Public methodology →
The most recent events linked to Kiro, so you can read the record behind the number. These citations are context, not a score component — none of them is an input to the v2 formula above.
Kiro pricing change detected: typical $20 → $40/mo
Detected automatically from the vendor pricing page. Kiro offers a free tier with 50 credits, and paid individual plans: Pro for $20/month with 1,000 credits, Pro+ for $40/month with 2,000 credits, Pro Max for $100/month with 5,000 credits, and Power for $200/month with 10,000 credits, all with add-on credits available at $0.04/credit. Pending human verification (needs_review).
Kiro: Baseline pricing captured at Index launch
Initial summary entered manually from public pricing pages; pending verification (needs_review).
Kiro tiers verified: $20-$200 with credits
Pro $20/mo (1,000 credits), Pro+ $40, Pro Max $100 (introduced 2026-06-10), Power $200; add-on credits $0.04 each. Replaces the previously recorded ~$19/$39 tiers.
OpenAI GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) in Kiro
Three GPT-5.6 tiers with 272K context across all tiers join the Kiro model lineup.
Kiro IDE v1.0.138: Faster session startup + compaction-loop fix
Faster session startup, fixes the compaction loop behind repeated "Context limit exceeded" errors, PowerShell trust support.
Claude Sonnet 5 available in Kiro
Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model in the Kiro IDE, CLI, and Web; 1M context (1.3x credit multiplier).
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Three GPT-5.6 tiers with 272K context across all tiers join the Kiro model lineup.
Faster session startup, fixes the compaction loop behind repeated "Context limit exceeded" errors, PowerShell trust support.
Anthropic's most agentic Sonnet model in the Kiro IDE, CLI, and Web; 1M context (1.3x credit multiplier).
Experimental agent focus mode, capability-based permissions, and building specialized custom agents.
New $100/month tier with 5,000 monthly credits and premium features.
Direct upgrade from Opus 4.7 with stronger self-verification; 1M context, 128K max output (2.2x credit multiplier).