Clave vs Kiro

Clave is a free, open-source desktop app for running coding-agent sessions in tabs, groups, and project workspaces. It supports Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, Pi, plain terminals, and remote agents over OpenClaw. Claude Code and Codex can use a chat view with rendered answers, grouped tool calls, attachments, and model selection. Groups retain sessions, folders, saved terminals, and prompts, while workspace files can act as project templates. A side panel combines a file tree, editors, HTML preview, and git tools for diffs, history, and one-click sync. Its MCP server provides twenty-three tools for tab and group management, file opening, and messaging. Clave runs locally without an account or cloud backend, with remote access through SSH and SFTP. macOS supports Apple Silicon and Intel; the early Windows build has stated limitations. The app is MIT-licensed and costs nothing.

Kiro is an agentic development environment for professional developers, software teams, businesses, and enterprises. Its spec-driven workflow turns prompts into requirements, designs, and tasks for agents to implement. Deterministic tools, including property-based tests, verify code correctness and its alignment with user intent. Background agent hooks can update documentation, generate unit tests, or optimise performance, while steering files let users supply project or global context, standards, and workflows. The IDE supports VS Code settings, themes, Open VSX plugins, and MCP servers for connecting agents to external services, APIs, documentation, and tools. Desktop versions run on macOS, Windows, and Linux; Kiro also has a web interface and mobile app for accessing cloud sessions from a phone. Kiro Web requires a paid subscription. The free plan includes 50 credits per month; KIRO PRO costs $20 a month billed per user and includes 1,000 credits. Kiro says it encrypts data in transit and at rest; enterprise administrators can configure customer-managed keys.