# Amp vs Kiro CLI (slim)

> Kiro CLI scores 59.9 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Kiro CLI scores 59.9 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #482 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Kiro CLI: C 59.9, rank #419 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kiro-cli.min.md
- Amp, good for Teams that want a hosted, multi-model coding agent with shared threads and cloud machines, driven from scripts through execute mode or the SDKs. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 79 against 73; Transparency & trust, 77 against 67. Also No incidents deducted, where Kiro CLI loses 4 points for them.
- Kiro CLI, good for Teams on AWS that want one agent configuration across terminal, IDE and web, with central permission policy, prompt logging to their own S3 bucket and IAM Identity Centre sign-in. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 31; Schema & documentation, 79 against 72; Security & auth, 66 against 57; Payments & pricing, 40 against 35. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Amp | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 57 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 79 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 66 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Kiro CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Amazon Web Services |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | Proprietary. Licensed as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement and the AWS Intellectual Property Licence (https://kiro.dev/license/). The GitHub repository is the public issue tracker and doesn't hold the source |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-08-14 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2026-05-18 |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 4.4k stars |