Anaconda, an Austin, Texas-based company that serves as foundational infrastructure for AI and data science development and is trusted by 95% of the Fortune 500, has acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic agentic engineering platform used by more than 3 million developers across VS Code, JetBrains, web, and CLI environments. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition follows Anaconda’s earlier 2026 purchase of Outerbounds, which brought production-grade AI orchestration to the Anaconda Platform.
Kilo Code grew from zero to more than 3 million users in sixteen months through developer-to-developer word of mouth, driven by its open source foundation and its ability to connect to more than 500 AI models from leading and emerging labs without vendor lock-in. Gartner has recognized Kilo as one of the highest-volume agentic engineering products in the AI-native development market, processing trillions of tokens per month across both commercial and open-weight models. Its self-hosted deployment options and automatic model selection capabilities have made it particularly attractive to enterprises seeking to control token costs and maintain governance over AI-generated code as usage scales.
The acquisition is designed to extend the Anaconda Platform deeper into the developer workflow — specifically, to the moment a developer writes the first prompt in an IDE or CLI, which is where AI-native software development actually begins. Anaconda already governs the packages, environments, and AI models that underpin AI-native development for the Fortune 500; Kilo connects that governed foundation to the tools where builders work before any of those governance controls have been applied. The combined platform is intended to create a trusted, auditable path from a developer’s first agentic prompt through to production deployment, addressing the enterprise challenge of moving quickly with AI without losing control over what ships or failing compliance requirements.
Kilo Code was co-founded by Scott Breitenother and Sid Sijbrandij, who is also co-founder and executive chair of GitLab. Breitenother will remain with the combined company. Kilo is available today with no changes to existing products, plans, or user support, and Anaconda said it will share product integration details as they become available.
Anaconda has 21 billion downloads and more than 52 million users, with backing from Insight Partners. Its platform is available across hybrid AI environments and cloud platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake.
KEY QUOTES:
“Every enterprise we talk to is asking the same question: how do we let our builders move as fast as AI now allows, without losing control of what ships or failing a compliance audit. Kilo is where that question starts, at the moment a builder writes the first prompt. Our job is to make sure that whatever an agent builds from that point forward runs on a foundation enterprises can trust, all the way to a future where that trust has to hold at the scale enterprises require without compromising on security.”
David DeSanto, Chief Executive Officer, Anaconda
“Kilo and Anaconda are a rare fit: almost no overlap, and what each of us lacks, the other already has. Kilo has many enthusiastic users doing agentic engineering with the freedom to use any model and any provider. Anaconda spent over a decade building enterprise trust; from packages to secure environments. The combination complements each other very well.”
Sid Sijbrandij, Co-Founder, Kilo Code and Co-Founder and Executive Chair, GitLab
“Anaconda has spent a decade earning trust across the open source community and inside the largest enterprises in the world, trust we’ve admired and now get to build on directly. We’re excited to bring Kilo to Anaconda’s community and support the trusted foundation for AI-native development the company pioneered.”
Scott Breitenother, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Kilo Code
