Manage seats

Every user who draws credits from the pool needs a seat. You give users access by adding them directly or by adding a group they belong to. In the Kiro console, you manage the pool under Access management > Credit sharing.

• Your role must allow q:GetPaymentModelEligibility, q:CreateAssignment, q:DeleteAssignment, q:AssignSeats, q:DeleteSeats, and user-subscriptions:ListSeatAssignments. The full Kiro administrator policy includes these actions and other Kiro administration permissions.
• Users and groups must exist in AWS IAM Identity Center or in the external identity provider synced to it.

1. Open Access management > Credit sharing and choose Add seat.
2. In How many seats do you want?, enter the number of seats.
3. Review the Buy seats purchase summary, then choose Confirm Purchase.

Each seat is $20 per month and contributes 500 monthly credits to the pool. The credits are added to the pool as soon as the purchase completes; you do not need to assign a user first. Seat price and credits are prorated for the first month, and the full seat price is due at the next billing cycle. Seats you buy later are prorated the same way.

1. On the Credit sharing page, open the Users tab and choose Add user.
2. Search for the user in IAM Identity Center or your synced identity provider, and select the user.
3. Repeat to add more users, then confirm the dialog.

1. On the Credit sharing page, open the Groups tab and choose Add group.
2. Search for the group and select it.
3. Repeat to add more groups, then confirm the dialog.

Adding a group does not add seats. In a prepaid pool, members of the group are seated the first time they use Kiro, if a seat is available; postpaid pools seat members automatically. Users who appear in more than one group are counted once and are not charged twice.

In a prepaid pool, a user you add gets a seat in one of two ways:

• You choose Assign seat for the user on the Users tab.
• A seat is free when the user opens Kiro, and the seat is assigned automatically.

The user's status on the Users tab shows Seated or Awaiting seat.

If you add more users than you have free seats, the console adds them with Awaiting seat status and opens the Add seat checkout for the shortfall. After the purchase completes, each user remains in Awaiting seat status until they activate their Kiro account from any Kiro client. Kiro assigns the seat when activation completes.

Postpaid pools seat every member automatically, so there is no shortfall and no Add seat action.

1. Open the Users tab and select the users to remove.
2. Choose Remove user from seat.
3. In a prepaid pool, removing the user frees their seat assignment. To schedule that seat for removal, select Remove seat at the end of the month. If you select this option and the seat remains unassigned, it is removed at the end of the billing cycle. Postpaid pools have no purchased seats to remove, so this option does not appear.
4. Confirm the removal.

Removing a user's direct assignment ends their pool access immediately unless they still belong to an added group. Credits they already used are not returned. Removing a user does not remove unused credits from the pool: monthly credits remain available until the end of the billing cycle, and additional credits retain their original expiration dates.

You can only remove users who have been assigned a seat. Users who belong to a group you added cannot be removed here. First remove them from the group in IAM Identity Center or your synced identity provider (see Connecting your identity provider). If they were also added directly, remove them under Users.

1. Open the Groups tab and select the group.
2. Choose Remove group and confirm.

Removing a group ends pool access immediately for members who do not also have access through a direct assignment or another added group.

To stop paying for seats nobody uses in a prepaid pool, choose Remove unassigned seat on the Credit sharing page. The seat is scheduled for removal at the end of the billing cycle and shows Pending removal until then. This action does not appear for postpaid pools.

• Credit pooling: Overview of how the shared pool works
• Manage usage limits: Control each user's usage with user, group, and profile limits
• Monitor usage: Track pool balance and projected consumption
• Enterprise billing: Understand subscription tiers and included credit allowances
• Managing Kiro subscriptions: Change plans, unsubscribe users, and enable overages

Go to Manage usage limits to control each user's credit use with user, group, and profile limits.