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 vs Respan
Kilo and Respan both land on Depends.
Respan
Depends
Confidence: Medium
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 |
Pick Kilo when
- Cost-conscious developers wanting BYOK
- Multi-IDE users (VS Code, JetBrains, CLI)
- Privacy-focused coders running local models
When Kilo is not a fit
- Non-developers . this is purely a coding agent
- Teams handling sensitive or compliance-gated code
- Buyers who want simple, predictable flat-rate pricing
- Orgs needing vendor stability post-acquisition
Pick Respan when
- Teams running LLM agents in production
- Startups wanting tracing, evals, and gateway in one tool
- Multi-model apps needing routing and fallback
- Compliance-sensitive AI products (SOC 2)
When Respan is not a fit
- Hobbyists making a few OpenAI calls
- Pre-production teams without real traffic
- Small teams wanting only a cheap LLM proxy
- Buyers needing a battle-tested vendor with long track record
Sources
- Kilo . official sitekilo.aiofficial
- Kilo pricingkilo.aiofficial
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- Product Hunt reviewsproducthunt.comreview
- G2 reviewsg2.comreview
- Reddit: cheaper than Cursorreddit.comreview
- Reddit: bad first impression threadreddit.comreview
review
- Kiro vs Kilo Code comparison (G2 4.5/5 from 4 reviews)theaiagentindex.comreview
- CVE-2026-8766 Kilo Code CLI information disclosuresentinelone.comsecurity
- CVE-2026-8765 NIST detailnvd.nist.govsecurity
- Kilo Code AI agent supply chain attackvulnerablemcp.infosecurity
- Metabase zero-day exploited to access Kilo datahelpnetsecurity.comnews
news
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- Respan | LLM Engineering Platformrespan.aiofficial