Kilo @kilocode.ai · 28/07/2026We keep arriving at the same conclusion in these experiments: you don't need the most expensive model for every step of your workflow. So we tested whether Kilo Code's Auto Model router could act on that better than picking models by hand. 511
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 23/07/2026More ways to control your AI coding spend are live: 📊 Cost Insights: what's driving your cost, broken down by product & user 🔔 Spend Alerts: get notified about unusual usage spikes 💡 Cost Suggestions: inference suggestions based on usage Read more: blog.kilo.ai/more-ways-to-control-ai-coding-spend 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 21/07/2026Everyone's waiting for a second "DeepSeek moment." We don't think it's coming. Open models like Kimi K3 top the intelligence charts, but serving them made throughput fall off a cliff. The scarce thing was never the model, but the compute to run it. Read more: blog.kilo.ai/p/no-second-... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 10/07/2026Kilo Code is now available for JetBrains IDEs as a native Kotlin/Swing plugin built on the IntelliJ Platform. It includes chat, slash commands, file mentions, MCP servers, and model selection. Available now on the JetBrains Marketplace. blog.kilo.ai/p/kilo-code-...blog.kilo.aiKilo Code Goes Native on JetBrainsA ground-up rebuild in Kotlin brings first-class AI coding assistance to IntelliJ, WebStorm, PyCharm, and every JetBrains IDE 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 08/07/2026The AI race isn't heating up. It's on fire. Pricing changes. Models getting pulled out from under your feet with no warning. And now Palantir's CEO went on CNBC to call the whole thing "effing insane." 100
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 30/06/2026Auto Efficient is a next-generation model router inside Kilo. It's session-aware and informed by real benchmark data. On average, it's 77% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 while retaining nearly 70% performance parity. Check out the numbers here: kilo.ai/auto-efficie... 011
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 24/06/202610 months ago we predicted AI coding bills would hit $100k/dev/yr. This week Ramp confirmed ~$90k. The fix isn't capping usage or downgrading everyone. It's routing each task to the model that fits it. Kilo's Auto Model does it by default. kilo.codes/0c9ftExkilo.codesAuto Model - Kilo Chooses the Right AI Model for Each TaskAuto Model routes coding tasks to the right AI model based on complexity, speed, and cost, reducing manual model switching and helping Kilo Gateway credits go further. 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 23/06/2026Stop paying frontier prices to rename a variable! Auto Efficient routes each request to the cheapest model that can handle it, picked on a public benchmark you can check. Easy tasks run lean, hard ones stay reliable. Live now: kilo.codes/0c9ftEx 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 22/06/2026Augment is sunsetting its JetBrains IDE extensions, w/ ~a month of notice. The alternatives: a CLI or an enterprise platform. Kilo's plugin already covers what PyCharm and IntelliJ devs want: native v7, Apache-2.0, 500+ models, no $100 floor. blog.kilo.ai/p/is-augment-sunsetting-its-ide-extensions 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 19/06/2026Kilo now shows benchmark data right in the model picker, CLI and VS Code. Each model lists its Terminal Bench completion score and average cost per attempt, measured in Kilo's own harness. GPT-5.5 completes 74.1% of tasks, Kimi K2.6 hits 54.4%. Full table: kilo.ai/leaderboardkilo.aiKilo - Best AI Coding Models 2026 | Live AI LeaderboardCompare the best AI coding models by real Kilo usage, industry benchmarks, pricing, speed, and context window. See live rankings for coding and agent workflows. 100
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 18/06/2026We ran GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7 Code through the same test: plan a feature flag service, then build it. GLM's plan scored 9.0 to Kimi's 8.1. But once both built from GLM's plan, the services were near identical. The planner matters more than the builder now. blog.kilo.ai/p/glm-52-vs-...blog.kilo.aiGLM-5.2 vs Kimi K2.7 Code: Which Model Is Better at Planning vs Building?We tested both models on the same backend task and found the biggest difference was not in writing code, but in deciding what code should be written. 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 17/06/2026Inceptron is live in the Kilo Gateway. Sovereign, EU-hosted inference without giving up model choice. Kimi K2.6, GLM 5.1, MiniMax M2.5. GDPR and ISO 27001 compliant. From $0.15/1M input tokens on MiniMax M2.5. blog.kilo.ai/p/kilo-partn...blog.kilo.aiKilo Partners with Inceptron for High-Performance EU InferenceAccess fast and secure open-weight models in the Kilo Gateway 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 17/06/2026$15 on Opus. $1.70 on the same task with a cheaper model. Most of what an agent does all day doesn't need a frontier model, you're just paying like it does. Here's how to cut your AI bill: blog.kilo.ai/p/4-spend-le... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 16/06/2026SpaceX is buying Cursor for $60 billion. SpaceX has the compute, Cursor has the distribution into half the Fortune 500, and the base models are converging. Once a tool gets acquired, its model choices serve the acquirer, not you. blog.kilo.ai/p/spacex-jus...blog.kilo.aiSpaceX Just Bought Cursor for $60 Billion. Why the Deal Matters.When a rocket company needs an AI coding tool badly enough to spend $60B, the strategic center has moved from model quality to compute access. 020
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 16/06/2026Fable 5 and Mythos 5 got pulled 3 days after launch over a US export directive. The frontier didn't go with them. GPT-5.5 tops KiloBench, Nemotron 3 Ultra is free and self-hostable, MiniMax M3 runs ~1/40th Fable's cost. The frontier is wider than one lab. blog.kilo.ai/p/you-dont-h...blog.kilo.aiYou Don't Have to Use Fable and Mythos to Work on the FrontierIn a complex regulatory environment, model freedom ensures that your workflows don't stop 020
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 15/06/2026Better than Fable 5, better than Le Chaton Fat, and better than whatever you're switching to tomorrow. Multiple models beats one single model. Every time. 210
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 15/06/2026The group chat will no longer be the one telling you your team lost. World Cup ClawByte, one-click install in KiloClaw, daily summaries + get yesterday's scores in your time zone, all piped to Telegram. 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 13/06/2026ICYMI: Product Week shipped five things this week. All of them, in one place 🧵 200
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 13/06/2026Most AI review tools run the same generic rubric on every repo and miss what your team actually cares about. Code Reviews now adapt: drop a REVIEWS.md in your repo and the agent enforces your conventions, not someone's default. Live now. 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 12/06/2026Two new coding models and a sold-out token plan this week in Kilo. Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot, Claude Fable 5 topping our coding benchmarks, and the MiniMax token plans selling out fast enough to need a new batch already. 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 12/06/2026The Kilo CLI now has a face. Kilo Console is a local, browser-based UI for managing your projects, git worktrees, sessions, and settings. No more hand-editing JSON. Now in beta. 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 11/06/2026"Open doesn't just mean weights." Chris Alexiuk of NVIDIA on everything the Nemotron family opens up: the data, the recipes, the technical report. The whole point is an open science community around models. 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 11/06/2026A secret got committed to Git, then "erased" with a branch rewind. The repo looked clean. We ran Grok Build 0.1 on this Terminal-Bench task. It found the orphaned commit, saved the secret, and actually scrubbed the history. 27 steps, 41 seconds, $0.09. Writeup: blog.kilo.ai/p/we-asked-g... 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 11/06/2026MiniMax M3 benches near Claude Opus 4.8 at a tenth of the price. Coding Plans are live in Kilo. Buy them with the balance you already have, no separate subscription. 220
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 10/06/2026On June 1, GitHub Copilot switched to token-based billing. Developers are reporting bills 10x higher, with some burning through a month of credits in hours. Meanwhile, a quieter shift has been underway. There's something for switchers at the end of this thread. 🧵 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 10/06/2026The dentist appointment you forgot. The standup it knew you'd miss. The Telegram ping to fix it. This is KiloClaw now. 🦞 120
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 09/06/2026Hit by the June 1 Copilot billing change? Bring your ChatGPT Plus or Pro subscription into Kilo and run GPT-5.5 at a flat rate, in your IDE or CLI. kilo.ai/use-chatgpt-... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 09/06/2026Same prompt, three models, three answers. You keep the one you like. Agent Manager is live in Kilo Code. Every agent runs in its own git worktree, so they work in parallel without touching each other's files. 100
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 08/06/20263 points higher on the benchmark. 8x more expensive to actually run. Guess which one was the right model to ship? Benchmarks tell you who wins. They don't tell you what it costs to win. KiloBench does. blog.kilo.ai/p/kilobench-... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 08/06/2026The lesson from the Copilot news last week goes past "find a cheaper vendor." The real exposure is being tied to one vendor's next price change at all. Cost control comes from transparency and model freedom: see what you'll pay, route each task to the right model. kilo.codes/v3IpnYc 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 06/06/2026We gave the same code audit to Claude Opus 4.8 and MiniMax M3. Same codebase, same prompt, 17 known bugs planted in advance. MiniMax M3 caught 13 for $0.07. The cheapest Claude run caught the same 13 for $1.30.Here's the breakdown. 🧵 320
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 05/06/2026Three new arrivals in Kilo this week, all pushing on context, speed, and cost. Kilo is already using more Nemotron 3 Ultra than Hermes and OpenClaw combined. 021
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 05/06/2026Five days. Five ships. 🚀 Next week is Product Week at Kilo. Agent Manager. KiloClaw. Console. Coding plans. Code reviews. One a day, Monday through Friday. Starts Monday. 👀 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 05/06/2026The GitHub Copilot bill came due June 1. But the scariest number this week isn't from Copilot. Uber burned its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April. Four months in. And it wasn't even Copilot. It was Claude Code and Cursor. 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 05/06/2026Two new open models. Free in Kilo. 👉 Nemotron 3 Ultra (NVIDIA): strongest US open-weights model. Agentic reasoning, 5x faster, 1M context. 👉 Step 3.7 Flash (StepFun): multimodal, 400 tok/sec, 256k context. Near-Sonnet coding at a fraction of the cost. $0. kilo.codes/BQHE4qE 030
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 04/06/2026Codebase indexing is back in Kilo Code. GA today. Semantic search for when you know what code does but not what this repo calls it. One query beats four guessed greps. Core implementation from community contributor shssoichiro. Opt-in & local-friendly. blog.kilo.ai/p/codebase-i...blog.kilo.aiCodebase Indexing Is Back in Kilo CodeSemantic search is now a standard, opt-in feature for finding code you cannot name yet. 030
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 04/06/2026Your AI planner takes a vague prompt, guesses what you meant, and hands you a confident plan built on assumptions you never agreed to. The new Architect agent refuses. It grills you first, then plans. Live now in the Kilo Marketplace: blog.kilo.ai/p/architect-... 120
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 03/06/2026Someone asked Claude Opus 4.8 "what model are you?" in Chinese. It said "I'm Qwen." The internet decided Anthropic distilled Qwen. Then it said DeepSeek. Then Claude. A real distillation fingerprint fails the same way every time. This one didn't. blog.kilo.ai/p/did-claude-opus-48-distill-alibabas 020
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 02/06/2026Roo Code shut down May 15th. 3M installs, 23K stars, gone. Same week Google pushed Antigravity 2.0 as a background update and people opened their IDE to find a chatbot staring back. The tool you built your workflow around isn't the tool you have anymore. kilo.codes/IEjacv3 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 02/06/2026"Middleman" is usually an insult. This is the good kind. Bring your own provider key! They still run the model and bill you. Kilo Gateway just adds the analytics and one-key-everywhere your provider never did. 0% markup, while OpenRouter and Requesty take 5%. kilo.codes/JUqGMfYkilo.codesWhy use BYOK through Kilo Gateway instead of going directly to the provider?If you already have an API key from DeepSeek, xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI, or another provider, the obvious question is: why put Kilo Gateway in the middle? 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 01/06/2026Claude Opus 4.8 is in Kilo Code, and we're running 20% off inference through our provider network. Frontier model, discounted price. BYOK or route through us, toggle the dropdown and let your agents loose. kilo.codes/Fp7TENu 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 01/06/2026Voting closes tonight on the May Product Hunt rankings! Here's one more kindness from this month. If v7 has been part of how you ship, your vote keeps it on top: www.producthunt.com/products/kil... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 31/05/2026Best single-line review of v7 so far! Last day to vote for #1 Product of the Month: www.producthunt.com/products/kil... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 30/05/2026Parallel agents was one of the bets in v7 that took the longest to get right. Then this showed up on Product Hunt. Two days left to vote: www.producthunt.com/products/kil... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 29/05/2026Three new arrivals in Kilo this week, all sharpening the price-to-performance trade. Opus 4.8 at the same price as 4.7. Step 3.7 Flash from StepFun. And Xiaomi just cut MiMo pricing by up to 99%. kilo.codes/BQHE4qE 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 29/05/2026Kilo Code v7 has been #1 Product of the Month on Product Hunt all month. This is the kind of feedback that put us there. ❤️ Vote to keep us on top! www.producthunt.com/products/kil... 000
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 29/05/2026We gave Grok Build 0.1 one prompt: build a webhook delivery service in TypeScript, Bun, and SQLite.It planned it, built it, shipped a working demo.Total cost: $1.65. Zero tool-calling failures. Here's what happened, file by file. 🧵 110
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 29/05/2026Last week, Elon replied to a Grok Build 0.1 test. This time, he quote-tweeted one: "Good value for money." One prompt, a full webhook delivery service in TypeScript, Bun, and SQLite. Built and shipped for $1.65 total. Zero tool-calling failures. Follow along for more builds! 010
Kilo @kilocode.ai · 28/05/2026And it's already live in Kilo Code. Open the model dropdown, pick Opus 4.8, go. 020