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Aider
Open-source terminal pair-programming tool that edits code in your git repo using cloud or local LLMs.
- Aider (open-source project, Aider-AI)
- Local or cloud
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- BCodingCoding agents · Local · via DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017With cloud models: tier S (via Claude Opus 5.5)
Tools without a benchmark of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer.
Facts
- Vendor
- Aider (open-source project, Aider-AI)
- Approach
- Coding agents
- Where it runs
- Runs fully on your hardware with local models; cloud models optional
- Interface
- Command line
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Open source; you pay your own model API costs or run local models (Ollama, LM Studio). Low activity: last tagged release v0.86.0 (2025-08-09), last commit 2026-05-22.
- Source code
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- GitHub stars
- 49.6k (18 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from github.com, 18 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- SClaude Opus 5.5Anthropic · closed
- SGPT-6 AstraOpenAI · closed
- SClaude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic · closed
- AGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI · closed
- BDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017DeepSeek · open weights
- BGrok 4.7xAI · closed
- CDeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813DeepSeek · open weights
- CGemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google · closed