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Kiro Pro vs Amazon Q Developer Pro (2026): Which AWS Coding Plan?

Kiro Pro vs Amazon Q Developer Pro: price, credits vs request limits, IDE vs plugin, models, and which AWS coding plan to pick in 2026, with dated sources.

By Engineer Foodie Desk Oct 28, 2026 ✓ Sources checked Oct 28, 2026

7 min read

Amazon Q Developer pricing and status checked Oct 28, 2026 on AWS’s pricing page and product page. Kiro plan prices checked Oct 22, 2026 on kiro.dev/pricing (seen unchanged Oct 26); Kiro models checked Oct 27, 2026; Kiro’s Q Developer FAQ line checked Oct 28, 2026. Every source is listed at the bottom. No affiliate links on this page (how we work).

Short answer: for a new solo developer, Kiro Pro. AWS is already pointing you there. Amazon Q Developer Pro is $19 per user a month and Kiro Pro is $20, so price isn’t the story. The story is a notice on AWS’s own product page: “On April 30, 2027, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins. For capabilities similar to Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins, explore Kiro” (checked Oct 28, 2026).

Q Developer Pro is still on sale, and it still makes sense for one kind of buyer: an AWS shop that wants Q in the AWS Console, admin controls through IAM Identity Center, and Java upgrade tooling. Everyone else is choosing between a plugin with an end date and the product AWS names as its successor.

Quick answer (Oct 28, 2026)

Price: Q Developer Pro $19 per user a month; Kiro Pro $20 per user a month. Neither publishes an annual price.
Usage: Kiro Pro gives 1,000 credits a month. Q Developer Pro’s agentic requests are “Included (with limits)”, with no number published.
Where it runs: Kiro is its own IDE plus a CLI. Q Developer is a plugin for JetBrains, Visual Studio, VS Code and Eclipse (preview), plus a CLI and the AWS Console.
Future: AWS ends support for the Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027 and points to Kiro.
Free tiers: Q Developer Free has 50 agentic requests a month; Kiro Free has 50 credits a month.

The two plans side by side

Plan	Price	Usage	Where it runs
Kiro Pro	$20/mo	1,000 credits	Kiro IDE + CLI
Q Developer Pro	$19/mo	Not published	IDE plugins, CLI
Kiro Free	$0	50 credits	Kiro IDE + CLI
Q Developer Free	$0	50 requests	IDE plugins, CLI

Per user per month, USD. Kiro: kiro.dev/pricing, verified Oct 22, 2026 (seen unchanged Oct 26). Q Developer: aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing, verified Oct 28, 2026. AWS lists Q Pro agentic requests as “Included (with limits)”.

Both free tiers land on the number 50, one in credits and one in requests. Neat symmetry, and absolutely useless for comparing them.

Kiro Pro: credits, models, spec-driven IDE and CLI

Kiro Pro is $20 a month for 1,000 credits (Kiro pricing, verified Oct 22, 2026). The rules, from Kiro’s pages:

Credits: “Usage limits reset at the start of each billing month. Unused credits do not roll over to the next month” (Kiro FAQ, verified Oct 26, 2026).
Running out: paid plans buy add-on credits at $0.04 each, from $5 (125 credits) to $100 a pack. Add-ons roll over and expire 12 months after purchase (overages docs, verified Oct 27, 2026).
Models: each model has a multiplier relative to Auto (1.0x). Claude Opus 5.5 is 2.0x, Claude Sonnet 5.5 1.3x, Claude Haiku 5.5 0.06x for requests up to 100K tokens (0.3x above), GPT-5.6 Sol 4.4x, and Qwen3 Coder Next 0.05x (Kiro models docs, verified Oct 27, 2026).
Where it runs: “The Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI are each licensed to you as ‘AWS Content’” (Kiro license, verified Oct 26, 2026). “You do not need an AWS account to use Kiro” (Kiro FAQ, Oct 26, 2026).
Indemnity: “we provide an output indemnity for paid Kiro subscribers” (Kiro FAQ, Oct 26, 2026).

The upside is you know your tank size. The catch is that your editor changes: Kiro is its own IDE, not a plugin for the one you already use. If 1,000 credits sounds small, Kiro Pro vs Pro+ does the top-up math.

Q Developer Pro: per-user price, limits as AWS publishes them

From AWS’s pricing page (verified Oct 28, 2026):

Price: “$19/mo. per user”. The first month is prorated by days remaining. After that it bills monthly until cancelled.
What Pro adds over Free: “Increased limits of agentic requests”, “Increased limits for Java and .NET app transformation”, “Identity center support with admin dashboards and controls” and “IP indemnity”.
Usage: agentic requests are “Included (with limits)”. AWS doesn’t publish the number. An agentic request is “any Q&A chat or agentic coding interaction with Q Developer through either the IDE or Command Line Interface (CLI).”
Java upgrades: 4,000 lines of code per user a month, pooled at the payer-account level, then “$.003 per line of code submitted” (Free gets 1,000 lines).
Data: Pro is “Automatically opted out” of data collection. Free is “Opt-out available”.
Cancelling: “If you choose to cancel a user’s Amazon Q Developer subscription before the end of the month, you will be charged the full month’s subscription fee.”

That last one stings. AWS meters your first month down to daily fractions of a user, then charges a full month if you leave on day two. Prorated on the way in, full price on the way out.

Where it runs: “JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse (preview)”, plus CLI completions and chat in your terminal, and Q in the AWS Management Console, Microsoft Teams and Slack (Q Developer product page, verified Oct 28, 2026).

Status: how AWS positions Q Developer vs Kiro

Only AWS’s own words here:

The plugins have an end date. “On April 30, 2027, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins. For capabilities similar to Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins, explore Kiro to access the latest models and features, including agentic coding, chat and MCP support” (Q Developer product page, Oct 28, 2026).
Q Pro still sells. The pricing page still lists Pro at $19 per user a month (Oct 28, 2026). Neither page says new sign-ups have stopped.
Q Pro carries into Kiro. Kiro’s FAQ: “Amazon Q Developer Pro customers who use Kiro will retain their Q Developer Pro benefits by logging into Kiro with the same credentials used for Amazon Q Developer Pro. Kiro will not collect their content for service improvement” (Kiro FAQ, verified Oct 28, 2026).

AWS doesn’t say anything about Q in the Console, Teams or Slack ending. The end-of-support notice covers the IDE plugins.

Reading AWS’s notice is like watching The Beef get gutted into The Bear: same family, same building, new name over the door, and a firm date when the old menu stops. To be fair, AWS put a date on it and said where to go, which is more than most product sunsets manage. Still, if you just set up Q Pro for your team, it’s a rough feeling, a bit like Waystar staff finding out about the GoJo deal from the press release.

Which to pick

Pick Kiro Pro if you’re a new solo buyer, you want a known monthly credit bucket, you want Claude 5.5 or GPT-5.6 models with published per-model rates, and you’re fine switching editors. It’s the direction AWS itself points. Head-to-head with other $20 plans: Kiro Pro vs Claude Pro and Kiro vs Cursor.

Pick Q Developer Pro if your company runs on AWS and IAM Identity Center, you want admin dashboards and IP indemnity today, you lean on Java upgrade transformations, or you need Q inside the AWS Console. Remember the plugin end date when you budget for 2027. The Kiro FAQ line above suggests your Pro benefits follow you into Kiro.

Stay free if you’re just poking around. Fifty requests (Q) or fifty credits (Kiro) a month is enough to see whether you like the workflow. Details: Is Kiro free?

The rest of the field is in AI coding tools compared, and the full Kiro ladder is in Kiro pricing.

Here’s what I’d do

If I were starting fresh today, I’d take Kiro Pro at $20 and skip the plugin with an April 2027 end date. If my company already pays for Q Developer Pro, I’d keep it and sign in to Kiro with the same credentials, since Kiro says the Pro benefits carry over. Either way, I wouldn’t cancel Q mid-month; AWS charges the full month.

FAQ

Is Kiro replacing Amazon Q Developer? AWS says it will discontinue support for the Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027 and points users to Kiro for similar capabilities.

Is Kiro Pro cheaper than Q Developer Pro? No, Kiro Pro is $20 per user a month and Q Developer Pro is $19, but only Kiro publishes its usage allowance (1,000 credits).

Does Q Developer have a free tier? Yes, a perpetual Free tier with 50 agentic requests a month and 1,000 lines of Java upgrades.

Is Kiro free? Kiro has a perpetual Free tier with 50 credits a month; paid plans start at $20.

Sources

AWS, Amazon Q Developer pricing (Free and Pro tiers, $19 per user, 50 agentic requests, Pro limits wording, Java LOC, data collection, billing and cancellation FAQ): https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/pricing/ (verified 2026-10-28)
AWS, Amazon Q Developer product page (IDE list, CLI, Console/Teams/Slack, end-of-support notice for IDE plugins on April 30, 2027): https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/ (verified 2026-10-28)
Kiro FAQ (Q Developer Pro customers in Kiro; monthly reset, no rollover; no AWS account needed; output indemnity; free tier): https://kiro.dev/faq/ (Q Developer lines verified 2026-10-28; other lines verified 2026-10-26)
Kiro pricing (Free 50 credits, Pro $20 / 1,000 credits, no annual price): https://kiro.dev/pricing/ (verified 2026-10-22; seen unchanged 2026-10-26)
Kiro docs, overages (add-on packs and expiry): https://kiro.dev/docs/billing/overages/ (verified 2026-10-27)
Kiro docs, models (multipliers): https://kiro.dev/docs/models/ (verified 2026-10-27)
Kiro license (Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI as AWS Content): https://kiro.dev/license/ (verified 2026-10-26)