Kiro vs Windsurf

Side-by-side comparison of Kiro and Windsurf: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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Category	Coding & development	Coding & development
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price	USD 20/mo	USD 20/mo
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	Technical
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Multiple: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT), DeepSeek, MiniMax, GLM, Qwen (open-weight)	Multiple providers: OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), SpaceXAI, plus leading open source models, and Cognition's own SWE-2
Founded		2024
Headquarters		Mountain View, US
Key strengths	·Spec-driven development (prompts → requirements → architecture → tasks) ·Parallel agentic implementation (local and cloud) ·Property-based testing to catch edge cases missed by unit tests ·Automated reasoning to check requirements for contradictions and gaps	·AI-powered IDE with agent management (Devin Desktop / Spaces) ·Multi-agent orchestration and Kanban view ·Supercomplete next-thought code prediction ·Fast Context for instant codebase search