Coding & apps
Kilo Code
Kilo Code is an open-source AI coding agent you can use in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, the terminal, a desktop app, and the cloud. Choose from 500+ models, bring your own keys, or run a local model.
Offers
Particle-1 is free on OpenRouter and Kilo Code
Particle-1 is free for a limited time on OpenRouter and Kilo Code, with about 1 million tokens of context
- Eligibility
- An OpenRouter or Kilo Code account can call the matching free route. The free routes are rate-limited, and prompts and outputs may be used to improve the model.
- Benefit duration
- Free for a limited time; no end date has been announced
Apodex 1.1 Mini is free on OpenRouter and Kilo Code
Apodex 1.1 Mini is free for a limited time on OpenRouter and Kilo Code, with a 262K-token context window
- Eligibility
- An OpenRouter or Kilo Code account can call the matching free route. The free routes are rate-limited, and prompts and outputs may be used to improve the model.
- Benefit duration
- Free for a limited time; no end date has been announced
What you can do
Developers who want an open-source AI agent in their editor, terminal, or the cloud to write, debug, and review code, and who want to pick models or bring their own keys.
Get started
Open the install page at https://kilo.ai/install and set it up for your environment. You can install the extension in editors such as VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Trae AI, or in JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ, PyCharm, and WebStorm. In the terminal, run curl -fsSL https://kilo.ai/cli/install | bash, or install with npm, pnpm, bun, or Homebrew, then run kilo in a project folder. There is also a Kilo Desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux. The first time you open it, you are prompted to sign in or create a free account. You can use email, or ChatGPT, Google, Apple, GitHub, GitLab, Discord, LinkedIn, Anaconda, or your organization's single sign-on. After you sign in, setup is completed automatically and you can start with free models right away. To use paid frontier models, add Credits at https://app.kilo.ai. You can also open Settings, go to Providers, and use your own API key or an existing subscription. More than 30 providers are supported, including OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Ollama for local models. To call models through the Kilo AI Gateway outside the extension, sign in at https://app.kilo.ai and copy your API key from the bottom of your personal Profile page.