Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.
Market Signal
Why It Has Market Pull
Kilo Code is a fast-growing open-source agentic coding platform (VS Code, JetBrains, CLI) descended from the Cline/Roo Code lineage, with real funding, credible founders, and over a million marketplace installs. It is clearly a serious, well-backed product worth tracking, with genuine and large builder momentum.
- Around 21.8k stars, 2.7k forks, 432 releases; latest v7.3.46 on 2026-06-15 with very high cadence
- 8M dollar seed announced 2025-12-10 led by Cota Capital, with General Catalyst, Quiet Capital and others
- Founders include an ex-Brooklyn Data leader and a GitLab co-founder
- 1,223,520 VS Code Marketplace installs, 4.0/5 from 196 ratings; reported 3M+ users
- MIT-licensed TypeScript; 500+ models, no API key required to start
feedbacks
What People Are Saying
"Kilo Code seems to be pretty slow with Sonnet 4.5, even when Fast Apply is enabled."GitHub issue
"Orchestration planning taking 20-30 minutes; tried for 4 days to complete a single plan."GitHub issue
"Stuck with a QUEUED status indicator without any error messages."GitHub issue
"Love that it has all the features from both Roo and Cline."Open VSX marketplace review
"Cursor but open and free."Reddit r/kilocode
"Newer versions feel like an advertising platform for Kilo's own paid models."review aggregation
"Can burn credits fast — 10x more expensive than GitHub Copilot."review aggregation





















