# Kiwari vs Roblox Assistant

Roblox ships [Assistant for Studio](https://create.roblox.com/docs/assistant/guide) as a first-party helper inside the editor. [Kiwari](https://kiwari.dev) is a desktop AI coding agent built for longer build sessions beside Studio. Both help you make games with AI. They suit different kinds of work.

## At a glance

**Roblox Assistant**

- Lives inside Studio.
- Made by Roblox.
- Strong for quick, in-editor asks.

**Kiwari**

- A desktop app that sits beside Studio.
- Built for longer build and iterate sessions.
- An agent workspace for features, review, and playtest loops.
- Model choice from free models to the strongest.

## Where Roblox Assistant fits

Being inside Studio is a real advantage. You can ask a question or request a small change without switching windows, and it is built by the people who make the platform. For short tasks, that convenience is hard to beat.

## Where Kiwari fits

Longer work needs more than a prompt box. Kiwari is designed around a session:

- **A dedicated chat.** Conversations persist per project, and you can run several at once.
- **Diff review.** Script edits come as diffs you approve or reject.
- **Plan mode.** Draft and edit a plan before the agent builds.
- **Playtesting.** The agent can start Play, send input, read the console, and take screenshots.
- **Subagents.** Exploration tasks can run in parallel.
- **Memory.** Notes about your place carry over between chats.
- **Model choice.** Use a light or free model for small jobs and a stronger one for hard problems.

## Workflow differences

With an in-editor helper, you tend to ask, get a result, and keep going by hand. With an agent app, you describe a feature and let it work through several steps, reviewing along the way. The second style pays off when a feature touches many scripts or needs testing.

## A simple rule

- Quick question or small tweak: use whatever is closest to hand, including Assistant.
- A feature with several moving parts: use an agent.

## Control and safety

Both let you stay in charge. Kiwari asks before every edit and command by default, offers a read-only Ask mode, supports undo for script edits, and never saves what happens in Play. You can relax approvals in Settings when you are comfortable.

## Using both

They are compatible. Plenty of creators use Assistant for a quick lookup and Kiwari for building. Nothing stops you from running them side by side.

## Practical details

- Kiwari ships for macOS today. Windows is not available yet.
- Studio must be open while Kiwari works.
- Free accounts get daily usage on Lite preview models, which are less capable than the paid ones.
- Pro is $19.99 a month. Pro+ is $69.99 a month with 4x the usage. See [pricing](https://kiwari.dev/pricing).

## Choose Kiwari when

- You want a dedicated agent chat for bigger features.
- You want a build and playtest rhythm across a session.
- You want an app whose whole job is AI coding for Roblox Studio.

[Start for free](https://kiwari.dev/download) and see whether it fits your workflow.

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