Announcing Kilo for Teams: Kilo for the Whole Company

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The problem: Engineers love Kilo Code, but not everyone can use it at work without a few basic features. Team-based billing. Spending controls for team members. Provider and model settings. Many of these things are requirements for AI adoption inside an organization.

The solution: We shipped the fix. Kilo for Teams launches today, September 10th, 2025. Read how to get started here.

I've been hearing the same story for months: "I use Kilo for personal projects, but my company needs centralized billing and security compliance before we can adopt it." Meanwhile, these same companies are either blocking AI tools entirely or watching developers submit endless expense reports for individual ChatGPT subscriptions.

Many AI coding vendors operate like it’s still 2010:

  • Zero transparency around actual usage or costs

  • Lock-in contracts with minimum commitments

  • Downgrade your experience to make their fixed pricing work:

    • Rate limiting (hourly/daily/monthly)

    • Forcing to switch models (transparently, auto model, without informing the user at all)

    • Giving you slower responses (serve users below their limit first, explicit slow pool)

    • Lowering quantization (FP8 to FP4)

    • Giving you a smaller context window (compress or drop after a certain length)

    • Introducing “premium requests” (2x for better models).

Your developers respond by going rogue and using Kilo on their personal credit card instead. We’ve grown 3x over the last 25 days.

Kilo Code token usage on OpenRouter

We built what engineering teams actually need: centralized AI access that doesn’t suck.

What you get:

  • Centralized billing and invoicing

  • Team management dashboard

  • Usage analytics and reporting

  • Role-based access permissions

  • Priority support access

What you don’t get:

  • A downgrade to your experience to make fixed pricing work

How to get started with Kilo for Teams

The misalignment in AI coding tools is brutal. Providers sell $20/month subscriptions but burn through hundreds in compute costs when users actually use the product. The result? Rate limits, downgrading your experience, or giving you bad results. Or worse - reducing what you get for that price once you’re already locked-in.

We're taking a different approach: charge fairly, be transparent, and ensure your team gets the very best and fastest answer on every prompt.

With centralized billing and usage data, you finally understand:

  • Which models are used within your company

  • Who your power users are (and what they're building)

  • Where you're overspending (and where you should spend more)

  • How AI actually impacts your team's productivity

This isn't just about cost control—it's about building institutional knowledge around AI adoption.

Sign up today. Setup takes 10 minutes:

  1. Sign up (consider using your company email)

  2. Create your organization & sign up for Teams

  3. Select the number of seats you need

  4. Set any spending and data collection limits

  5. Invite your team

Get your team started →

Or if you are eager to learn more about getting started, read How to get started with Kilo Code Teams.

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