Kilo Code joins Anaconda

Why this conversation

Most people who write Python have met Anaconda through Conda. So when its booth appeared at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe in Amsterdam, a conference about agents, visitors kept asking the same question: they knew Conda, but why was Anaconda there? On 18 September the host put that question to Maisie, who works on Anaconda’s EMEA sales team. It was a short conversation at the booth. The rest of the week is in AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe 2026: who we met.

From packages to Kilo Code

Anaconda has been around for about twelve years in the Python space, she says: package management, and the security side of it. This year it made three acquisitions. One of them is Kilo Code, an AI coding assistant.

Kilo Code gives developers access to more than 500 models, open-weight and frontier. They can compare benchmarks, optimise cost based on how a model performs for a given job, and route models and inference to wherever they want: AWS Bedrock, Azure, or on-prem. She describes it as a flexible model harness, used in VS Code, in JetBrains or on the command line.

What Anaconda adds is the view a company needs over all of that: governance and control, audits of the models being pulled in, and role-based and team-based restrictions, for example to restrict certain types of models in line with regulation.

Free tier, licences and local testing

Kilo Code is based in open source, and there is a completely free tier with access to all of the models, which she sees as mainly for individuals. Teams and enterprises that want restrictions, control and visibility over the models in use have team and enterprise licences.

The models run wherever a team chooses to send them. Anaconda Desktop was due to integrate with Kilo Code at the end of the month, so that development and testing can happen locally before deploying to the inference provider of choice. She named AWS and Google, NVIDIA DGX Spark machines, on-prem and air-gapped environments.

Kilo Code and Anaconda now work as one team, and she invited people to get in touch with her or anyone else at Anaconda.