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Kilo Blog
Company blog · blog.kilocode.aiaiprogrammingbusiness
Kilo Blog is the company blog at blog.kilocode.ai, writing about ai, programming and business. Since 2025, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “Why Cursor's pricing model could lead to its downfall”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Kilo Code's company blog, with posts on AI coding tool pricing, the Windsurf deal collapse and a Grok Code Fast offer. Commenters link these posts while promoting Kilo Code or citing its pricing, without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform for software developers. 5M+ Kilo Coders. 60T+ tokens processed. Follow us: kilo.ai/social.
Most-linked posts?
- Why Cursor's pricing model could lead to its downfall3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-04-07
- Who makes money from open-source AI models?2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-13
- Llama 4: One Week After2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-11
- Kilo for Cursor Refugees Program2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-29
- Mini Models Battle: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs. GLM-4.6 vs. GPT-5 Mini2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-21
- Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-09
- VS Code forks are facing a grim future2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-09
- "Sonic" = Grok Code Fast, Free in Kilo Code2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-27
- We compared 6 AI models for coding (unscientific, but fun)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-09-13
- Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-03
What Hacker News says?
Kilo Code CEO here. We’d like to welcome ex-Windsurf users by offering you $100 in credits. :D We'd love to show how through open source there is a better way (better community, more transparent pricing, won't mess with your or the product). https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/windsurf-is-over-switch-to-open-s...
Comment linking /p/windsurf-is-over-switch-to-open-source
on “OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google”Submitted Stop selling “unlimited”, when you mean “until we change our minds” as a story · 358 points
HN discussionReally interesting from a 'in a bubble' point of view. I've been using Void for the past few weeks as a replacement for Bolt, Lovable, Tempo and the rest. Which is nothing like the use cases mentioned in this thread. Just shows how we're each focused on different parts of an environment? Of course I'm not a programmer, I'm just a slash-and-hack vibe coder. :) For the record, I really like Void. It's great at utilisi…
Comment linking /p/vs-code-forks-are-facing-a-grim
on “Void: Open-source Cursor alternative”Submitted Token growth indicates future AI spend per dev as a story · 190 points
HN discussionOur plan is to be a superset of Cline and Roo's features (we already have all the major features from both) [0] We also have our own provider, which means no need to bring your own API keys (you can if you like, but it is batteries included by default) and we're not charging anything on top of the API pricing. Instead of monetizing on individual developers, we want it to be free for them and make money eventually of…
Comment linking /p/roo-or-cline-were-building-a-superset
on “OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B”Submitted Kilo Code: Speedrunning open source coding AI as a story · 98 points
HN discussionGrok Code Fast 1 usage is driven almost entirely by Kilo Code and Cline: https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-code-fast-1/apps Both apps have offered usage for free for a limited time: https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/grok-code-fast-get-this-frontier-... https://cline.bot/blog/grok-code-fast
Comment linking /p/grok-code-fast-get-this-frontier-ai-model-free
on “Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite”Submitted Evidence suggesting Quasar Alpha is OpenAI's new model as a story · 73 points
HN discussionYeah, my colleague just wrote about this exact problem of incentive misalignment with Cursor and Windsurf https://blog.kilocode.ai/p/why-cursors-flat-fee-pricing-will The economist in me is says "just show the prices", though the psychologist in me says "that's hella stressful". ;)
Comment linking /p/why-cursors-flat-fee-pricing-will
on “An update to our pricing”Submitted Roo or Cline? We're building a superset as a story · 69 points
HN discussionSubmitted September 15, 2025: The Day the Industry Admitted AI Subscriptions Don't Work as a story · 66 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agents.md may trick us into writing better docs as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google's Antigravity is the most expensive proprietary fork to date as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who makes money from open-source AI models? as a story · 14 points
HN discussionSubmitted VS Code forks are facing a grim future as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Zero to 76.5B: The Grok Code Fast Review as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future AI bills racking up $100k/yr per dev? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cursor's 500 requests => "unlimited" => 225 requests as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted VS Code forks (Cursor, Windsurf) are facing a bleak future as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Aren't We Talking More About GPT-4.1? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Cursor's flat-fee pricing could lead to its downfall as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kilo Code Launch Week: From Zero to #5 in Five Days as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Grace Hopper Would Love AI Coding as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Future AI bills of $100k/yr per Dev as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Claude Is Still the King as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Llama 4: One Week After as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Last week Meta shipped new models – the biggest news is what they didn't say as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google's Digging a Moat as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kilo for Cursor Refugees Program as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kilo for Cursor Refugees Program as a story · 3 points
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