Pricing flip-flops and developer dissatisfaction
In July, AWS needed to restrict the utilization of Kiro, simply days after asserting it in public preview, as a result of sheer variety of builders flocking to check out the IDE, primarily pushed by pricing modifications and throttling points in rival IDEs, equivalent to Cursor and Claude Code.
It had additionally retracted particulars of the pricing tiers it deliberate for the service. AWS initially stated it might provide three tiers of service for Kiro: free with a cap of fifty agentic interactions per thirty days; Professional at $19 per thirty days for as much as 1,000 interactions, and Professional+ at $39 per thirty days for as much as 3,000 interactions.
Nevertheless, final week, it launched a revised pricing construction shifting away from easy interactions to vibe and spec requests: free with a cap of fifty vibe and 0 spec requests; Professional at $20 with 225 vibe and 125 spec requests, Professional+ at $40 with 450 vibe and 250 spec requests; and Energy at $200 for two,250 vibe and 1,250 spec requests.
