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Kiro AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Kiro spec-driven AI IDE from prototype to production; notable AWS-backed dev product.
👁 3.8M/mo
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Windsurf Editor
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AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.
👁 3.3M/mo
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium
Chat-based AI builder turning ideas into full software products.
👁 35M/mo♥ 69K
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Glean
✓ verifiedFreemium
Enterprise work-AI platform for knowledge discovery and automation.
👁 3.2M/mo
Pricing
KIRO FREE: $0 /mo. per user
KIRO PRO: $19 /mo. per user
KIRO PRO+: $39 /mo. per user
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Core features
- ✦AI IDE for prototype to production
- ✦Spec-driven development
- ✦Agent hooks for task automation (e.g., generating documentation, unit tests, code optimization)
- ✦Multimodal chat
- ✦Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for connecting to docs, databases, APIs
- ✦Autopilot mode for autonomous execution of large tasks
- ✦Configurable agent interaction via steering files
- ✦Support for state-of-the-art AI models (Claude Sonnet 3.7, Sonnet 4)
- ✦VS Code compatibility (Open VSX plugins, themes, settings)
- ✦Image input for UI design or architecture guidance
- ✦Enhanced Context Engineering for deep codebase analysis and adaptive memory
- ✦Intelligent Agents for autonomous planning, coding, and testing
- ✦Spec-Driven Development for clarifying requirements and automating execution
- ✦Intelligent Codebase Search and Advanced Repository Insight
- ✦Context-aware code completions and next-edit suggestions
- ✦Support for leading AI models (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- ✦AI-powered code completion and suggestions
- ✦Automated lint fixing
- ✦Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
- ✦Integrated app building and deployment
- ✦MCP server support for custom tools
- ✦Terminal command integration
- ✦Memory of codebase structure and workflow
- ✦AI-powered software development
- ✦Chat-based interface for specifying requirements
- ✦Full-stack engineering capabilities
- ✦Rapid app prototyping
- ✦Work AI Platform
- ✦Glean Assistant (AI assistant)
- ✦Glean Agents (AI agent builder)
- ✦Glean Search (Enterprise search)
- ✦Connectors (Data integration)
- ✦Data & AI Governance
- ✦Security
Use cases
- →Building secure file sharing applications from scratch quickly.
- →Creating games without extensive manual coding.
- →Accelerating development from concept to working prototype in a short timeframe (e.g., a weekend).
- →Generating detailed user stories and capturing requirements like a product manager.
- →Automating routine development tasks such as documentation generation, unit testing, and code performance optimization.
- →Implementing complex features on larger codebases with fewer prompts and less repetition.
- →Delegating complex software development tasks to AI agents for autonomous completion.
- →Performing multi-file code edits and refactoring through natural language chat.
- →Gaining deep architectural understanding of a codebase to resolve issues with precision.
- →Generating unit tests, code explanations, and uncovering codebase architecture.
- →Systematically tackling software development tasks from planning to testing.
- →Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
- →Reducing onboarding time for new developers
- →Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
- →Streamlining the app building and deployment process
- →Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
- →Creating developer portfolios
- →Building real estate listings applications
- →Developing file uploaders
- →Generating slide presentations
- →Finding information across various company apps
- →Creating and summarizing content
- →Automating repetitive tasks and workflows
- →Onboarding new employees and projects
- →Improving customer service with quick access to knowledge
- →Enhancing engineering productivity
- →Streamlining sales processes
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