Kico and the alternatives
Kico is an AI app builder that runs on the model you choose, including your own GPU, with a personal assistant and agents that keep working around your apps. Here is what that means next to the tools you may know.
- Kico vsLovablea chat-to-app builder that hosts what you build, with payments, auth and its own cloud backend.
- Kico vsBolt.newa chat-to-app and website builder by StackBlitz, with hosting, databases and visual editing.
- Kico vsv0Vercel's AI agent that creates code and full-stack apps, deployed to Vercel.
- Kico vsReplitan app builder and cloud IDE whose Agent builds full-stack apps with built-in hosting, auth and databases.
What Kico does
| Capability | In Kico |
|---|---|
| Build apps from a chat, with a live preview | A sandbox per project; any stack; several apps per project |
| The agent checks its work in a real browser | Before it says done; you can watch and take over Kico's browser |
| Choose the model | Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, xAI and more, with your key or plan |
| Open-weight models on your own GPU | vLLM, LM Studio, ollama, llama.cpp; at home over Tailscale |
| Fine-tune a local model on your own work | Opt-in per organization; promoted only if the tests improve |
| A personal assistant across all projects | Knows your projects, colleagues and memory |
| Agents on schedules and events | With approvals before anything goes out |
| An email address for every agent | At agents.kico.dev, with SPF, DKIM and DMARC checks |
| Connectors | Slack, Google Workspace, GitHub, Notion, Linear and more, plus any MCP server |
| Your existing databases, read-only | PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SQLite |