Best for
Best for developers who want an open-source agent and want to pay for model calls at cost.
- Freelancers
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
AI Code Comparison
Kilo Code vs. Roomote
At a glance
At a glance
Best for
Best for teams that want a cloud coding agent on their own infrastructure, driven from chat.
- Small and mid-sized
- Enterprise
Cataleo does not name a winner. Both statements come from the vendors themselves.
Full Comparison
| Criterion | Kilo Code | Roomote |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | lower value Free and open source; Teams $15 / user / month Inference is billed separately: exact provider rates through the Kilo Gateway with no markup, your own keys, or an optional Kilo Pass credit subscription at $19, $49 or $199 a month. Enterprise is quoted. Cloud compute is billed per second, Gas Town at $1.20 an hour and code review at $0.33. | Free for up to 10 self-hosted users; cloud from $49 / month Cloud is $49 a month for up to 10 users, $249 for 11 to 50 and $499 for 51 to 100, with larger deployments quoted. Self-hosting needs no licence key up to 10 users and is priced the same as cloud above that. Inference and compute are billed by your own providers. |
| Free trial | Free plan for individuals; a 14-day Enterprise trial for teams | Seven-day cloud trial without a credit card; self-hosting is free up to 10 users |
| Commercial use | Yes, the source is MIT licensed | Yes, source-available under the Fair Core License 1.0, with each release converting to Apache 2.0 two years after publication |
| Output | Code, refactors, pull-request reviews and agent sessions | Branches, diffs and pull requests with live previews, plus plans and answers |
| API | Yes, the Kilo Gateway is a single endpoint to hundreds of models, with streaming, BYOK and usage tracking | A Roomote MCP server starts, inspects and continues sessions and tasks from an MCP client |
| Hosting | Cloud (SaaS), with editor extensions and a CLI on your own machine | Self-hosted with a one-command installer or Docker Compose, or a single-tenant cloud deployment |
| Where it runs | VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin for IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm and others, a CLI installed with npm, cloud agents, Slack and mobile apps | Not an editor: a self-hosted or single-tenant cloud deployment, driven from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, a web dashboard, Linear or a pull request |
| Inline completions | Yes, fill-in-the-middle autocomplete routed through the Kilo Gateway, on by default as ghost text accepted with Tab, using Codestral by default or Mercury Edit 2 with your own Inception key; a status bar item snoozes it | No, the vendor states it is not an IDE, a local copilot or a desktop app; work is delegated rather than typed alongside |
| Agent mode | Yes, Code, Architect, Debug, Ask and custom modes, an automated pull-request code reviewer, and an Agent Manager running parallel worktree-isolated local and cloud sessions | Yes, tasks run in isolated sandboxes with the repository and dev environment, the agent reviews its own changes with a second model, runs the app before calling the work done and hands back branches, diffs or pull requests with a live preview URL; automations start work on a schedule or on repository events |
| Model choice | Yes, more than 500 models across over 60 providers through the Kilo Gateway, Auto Model routing across Frontier, Efficient and Free tiers, your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure or AWS Bedrock keys, and local models with Ollama or LM Studio | Yes, model agnostic and bring your own key, with providers including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, xAI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and Foundry, OpenRouter, Together AI, Baseten, Moonshot, Z.AI, MiniMax, LiteLLM, vLLM and Ollama |
| Data control | MIT-licensed source with the prompt and context window open to inspection and no silent model switching; Teams adds data privacy controls and shared BYOK, Enterprise adds SSO, OIDC and SCIM, audit logs and limits on which models and providers may be used | Self-hostable on your own infrastructure and single-tenant by design, source-available for inspection, with your own inference keys and your own sandbox provider; telemetry is anonymous and documented separately |
| Ecosystem fit | MCP servers, GitHub integration for automated pull-request reviews, plugins, shell integration, custom rules and shared agent modes | GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket and Azure DevOps for source control; connectors for Jira, Linear, Asana, monday.com, Notion, Sentry, Grafana, PostHog, Snowflake, Supabase, Neon, Vercel and Railway; custom MCP servers; sandboxes on Docker, E2B, Daytona, Modal, Azure, Blaxel and Box |
| MCP-ready | No | stated Yes |
| Deployment | Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based | more entries Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise |
| Support | Community forum | Community forum |
| Onboarding | Documentation and knowledge base | Documentation and knowledge base |
| Company size | more entries Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise | Small and mid-sized, Enterprise |
| Integrations | GitHub, Slack, Ollama, LM Studio | more entries GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Gitea, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Linear, Jira, Asana, monday.com, Notion, Sentry, Grafana, PostHog, Snowflake, Supabase, Vercel |
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The short version
Key Differences
- Starting price Kilo Code Free and open source; Teams $15 / user / month Roomote Free for up to 10 self-hosted users; cloud from $49 / month
- Free trial Kilo Code Free plan for individuals; a 14-day Enterprise trial for teams Roomote Seven-day cloud trial without a credit card; self-hosting is free up to 10 users
- Deployment Kilo Code Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based Roomote Cloud (SaaS), Browser-based, On-premise
- Company size Kilo Code Freelancers, Small and mid-sized, Enterprise Roomote Small and mid-sized, Enterprise
- Hosting Kilo Code Cloud (SaaS), with editor extensions and a CLI on your own machine Roomote Self-hosted with a one-command installer or Docker Compose, or a single-tenant cloud deployment
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The trade-offs
Strengths and Limitations
Kilo Code
Strengths
- MIT licensed, with the prompt, context window and decisions open to inspection
- Model calls billed at exact provider rates with no markup, or run on your own keys and local models
- One account across VS Code, JetBrains, the CLI, cloud agents, Slack and mobile
Limitations
- Usage is metered per model call rather than per seat, so budgeting takes attention
- Kilo Deploy has reached end of life and is closed to new users
Roomote
Strengths
- Self-hostable and single-tenant, with your own inference keys and sandbox provider
- Work starts and lands in Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Linear or a pull request rather than in an editor
- Reviews its own changes with a second model and returns a live preview URL before a human looks
Limitations
- No inline completions and no editor integration; it is not a local assistant
- Self-hosting means running the deployment, the sandboxes and the inference bill yourself
Plans
Pricing
Kilo Code
- Free & Open Source $0 For individuals. Open-source VS Code, JetBrains and CLI extensions; usage is billed separately.
- Teams $15 Per user per month. Usage analytics, shared agent modes, shared BYOK, centralised billing, data privacy controls and priority support.
- Enterprise Custom SSO, OIDC and SCIM, audit logs, model and provider limits, a shared private gateway and SLA commitments.
- Kilo Pass From $19 Per month. Optional credit subscription for inference, at $19, $49 or $199, with up to 50 percent bonus credits.
Roomote
- Self-hosted, up to 10 users $0 No licence key needed. You provide hosting, sandboxes, inference and maintenance.
- Cloud, up to 10 users $49 Per month, all features included, with a seven-day free trial and no credit card.
- 11 to 50 users $249 Per month, cloud or self-hosted.
- 51 to 100 users $499 Per month, cloud or self-hosted.
- 100+ users Not stated Quoted by the vendor.
What users say
Review Scores · opens after launch
Kilo Code
- Ease of use
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- User interface
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- Onboarding
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Roomote
- Ease of use
- Not rated yet
- User interface
- Not rated yet
- Onboarding
- Not rated yet
- Support and service
- Not rated yet
- Value for money
- Not rated yet
- Features
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Where this comes from
Where this comes from
Kilo Code https://kilo.ai · checked against the official source on 2026-09-10
Roomote https://roomote.dev · checked against the official source on 2026-09-10
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