Kilo
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you're a developer who wants 500+ models with your own keys and accepts real security risk.
Comparison
Kilo and Respan both land on Depends.
Buy if you're a developer who wants 500+ models with your own keys and accepts real security risk.
Buy if you run AI agents in production and want tracing, evals, and a gateway under one roof . start on the free tier.
| Compare | Kilo | Respan |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Cost-conscious developers wanting BYOK | Teams running LLM agents in production |
| Who it's not for | Non-developers . this is purely a coding agent | Hobbyists making a few OpenAI calls |
| Privacy | Rough record: two 2026 CVEs, a 2025 supply-chain attack, and an August 2026 breach exposing user names and emails.10 | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources reviewed | Zero G2 reviews; unproven |
| Public sentiment | Reddit and review roundups praise its flexibility and price versus Cursor, but complain it's heavy, slow, and pricing is confusing. | Early reviews praise simplicity ('dead simple' per Product Hunt), but independent G2 review volume is still zero. |
| Biggest gotcha | Starter Pass costs $19/mo for up to ~$26.60 usage credit; heavier use costs extra² | Guess: trace and eval volume pricing on top of the $199 Team fee . model your ingestion first |