Pricing flip-flops and developer dissatisfaction
In July, AWS had to limit the usage of Kiro, just days after announcing it in public preview, due to the sheer number of developers flocking to try out the IDE, mainly driven by pricing changes and throttling issues in rival IDEs, such as Cursor and Claude Code.
It had also retracted details of the pricing tiers it planned for the service. AWS initially said it would offer three tiers of service for Kiro: free with a cap of 50 agentic interactions per month; Pro at $19 per month for up to 1,000 interactions, and Pro+ at $39 per month for up to 3,000 interactions.
However, last week, it introduced a revised pricing structure moving away from simple interactions to vibe and spec requests: free with a cap of 50 vibe and 0 spec requests; Pro at $20 with 225 vibe and 125 spec requests, Pro+ at $40 with 450 vibe and 250 spec requests; and Power at $200 for 2,250 vibe and 1,250 spec requests.
