DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Qwen now available as open weight model options

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You can now choose from three open weight models in the Kiro IDE and Kiro CLI. Available with experimental support on all plans, with sign-in via Google, GitHub, or AWS BuilderID. Inference runs in US East (N. Virginia). Restart your IDE to access them from the model selector. Learn more ->

DeepSeek 3.2

0.25x credit multiplier. Best suited for agentic workflows and code generation. Handles long tool-calling chains, stateful sessions, and multi-step reasoning well. Learn more ->

Minimax 2.1

0.15x credit multiplier. Best suited for multilingual programming and UI generation. Delivers strong results across Rust, Go, C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, and others. Learn more ->

Qwen3 Coder Next

0.05x credit multiplier. Purpose-built for coding agents with 256K context and strong error recovery. Works especially well for long agentic coding sessions in the CLI. Learn more ->