SiliconANGLE has named Kilo a finalist in the AI Coding & Developer Assistants category of its 2026 edition of the TechForward Awards alongside Postman API Platform and SonarQube. Winners will be announced September 14.
The shortlist #
The TechForward Buyer’s Guide features technologies and solutions that emerged as leaders over the previous year. Every company in it earned placement through evaluation by SiliconANGLE’s judging panel.
That panel is independent and deliberately mixed. It includes SiliconANGLE Media representatives, industry analysts, journalists, venture capitalists, and B2B tech practitioners. Entries are scored on technical innovation, market differentiation, and proven customer impact.
“Each year, the TechForward Awards recognize the technology decisions that pay off for the businesses making them,” said John Furrier, co-founder and co-CEO of SiliconANGLE Media. “This year’s finalists span AI, security, cloud and data platforms, and each one solved a true problem for the customers who adopted it.”
What the judges were looking at #
More than 5 million developers have installed Kilo, and it meets them wherever they work: VS Code, JetBrains, the CLI, Cloud Agents, Slack, iOS, and Android. The same agent runtime, MIT-licensed in the editor and the CLI, runs across all of it.
The product argument is developer choice. Kilo routes across 500+ models at provider rates with no markup on inference, so the tool never decides which model your team ships on. Enterprises keep the guardrails they need. Model rules, provider restrictions, and regional inference requirements get set once at the top of the organization, and each business unit funds and configures its own work underneath. A European subsidiary can run only European inference providers while another unit runs the full model catalog.
Developers vote with their tokens, and the vote has moved fast. Last summer, open-weight models were 15.5% of token usage on Kilo, with proprietary models holding the rest. By the week of July 20, 2026, the ratio had flipped: open weights at 79.1%, proprietary at 20.9%.
Cost moved with it. Auto Efficient, a smart, session-aware, cost-conscious router, delivers 71% of frontier-level brainpower with 72% lower cost on KiloBench. Not every task needs cutting-edge AI and the bill that comes with it.
Open source at enterprise scale #
Kilo joined Anaconda in July 2026. 95% of the Fortune 500 leverage Anaconda, and more than 52 million users rely on the Anaconda Platform.
Open source agentic engineering now runs on a secure, trusted foundation, at the scale enterprises actually operate at. See what that looks like at kilo.ai/enterprise.