OpenAI models have been at the top of the Kilo Leaderboard since we launched. We are excited to announce that you can now sign in and create an account for Kilo using your ChatGPT subscription, and you can also connect your ChatGPT plan and use it for inference across every Kilo coding surface: VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, Cloud Agents, Code Reviews, and the mobile app.
Signing into Kilo with ChatGPT works like the Google or GitHub sign-in buttons you’ve clicked on plenty of other sites. You authenticate with OpenAI, and Kilo uses that identity to create your account or sign you in. From then on, your ChatGPT account serves as the login source for Kilo’s cloud services, so you have one less password to remember and one less account to set up before you write any code.
In addition to logging into Kilo with your ChatGPT subscription, you can also use up to 100% of the ChatGPT Work and Codex usage that is included with your plan. Or, set a lower app-specific limit in your ChatGPT settings.
Access to the top GPT models inside the top open-source coding agent has never been easier!
Your plan now reaches the cloud
Before this update, connecting ChatGPT to Kilo meant going through the local harness, which sent requests from your machine straight to OpenAI. That setup worked well enough inside VS Code or the terminal, but anything running on Kilo’s infrastructure had no way to reach your subscription, so Cloud Agents and the mobile app needed a different model provider.
Now you can add your ChatGPT plan to Kilo as a BYOK provider. BYOK usually means pasting in your own API key; in this case, the “key” is the ChatGPT subscription you already pay for, and your requests draw on that plan instead of per-token API billing. Once you connect it, the plan works in the VS Code and JetBrains extensions, the CLI, Cloud Agents, and the mobile app.
Key benefits of Sign in with ChatGPT in Kilo:
Use your ChatGPT login across Kilo surfaces
Take advantage of the ChatGPT Work and Codex usage included with your ChatGPT plan in features like Cloud Agents and the Kilo CLI
Seamlessly switch between any of the OpenAI models included in your ChatGPT plan and 500+ models in the Kilo Gateway
If you think of a bug fix while you’re away from your desk, you could start a Cloud Agent session from your phone, and that agent would run on the same ChatGPT plan you use in your editor, without an OpenAI API key or a second provider account.
Back at your laptop, the agent modes you use locally can draw from that ChatGPT plan too, whether Plan mode is sketching out an architecture doc or Debug mode is tracking down a failing test.
Get Started
Once you connect your ChatGPT plan, the GPT models it includes are available in every Kilo mode on every surface, whether you’re asking a quick question in Ask mode, or running 10 agents at the same time in Agent Manager.
The same model dropdown also lists the 500+ models in the Kilo Gateway, so you can use your plan and the Gateway side by side. To get started, sign in to Kilo with ChatGPT.
Amazing! Works with any Pro or Plus plan
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