Aider AI

Aider

Name: Aider
Author: Aider AI

Git-aware terminal coding agent focused on pair programming, patch editing, repository maps, and broad model/provider compatibility.

CLIActiveOpen sourceBYOKMCP Partial

613K

Attributed output

GitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09

613KAttributed outputGitHub public-attribution count, 2026-06-09Commits and PRs on public GitHub provably produced by this agent. Exact if it is visible through its own bot or workflow, an estimate if measured through attribution it declares (these can swing 30 to 40 percent between measurement runs at multi-million scale), and a floor either way.

Index rank

of 34 tracked agents

#7Index rankof 34 tracked agents

n/a

Business signal

No sourced business metric

n/aBusiness signalNo sourced business metric

$0 BYOK

Entry price

BYOK only

$0 BYOKEntry priceBYOK only

45,837

GitHub stars

Aider-AI/aider

45,837GitHub starsAider-AI/aider

Not published

npm demand/wk

Public npm counter

Not publishednpm demand/wkPublic npm counterWeekly package downloads as an install-demand floor; adjusted when the vendor's main install channel is no longer npm.

Activity Over Time

Weekly attributed output on public GitHub. Output visible through the agent's own bot or workflow is exact; output measured through declared attribution is an estimate. Window: 2026-06-01 to 2026-06-08.

Market

Developer output

613K

Public GitHub commits attributed to aider

aider declares attribution by default on the commits it makes; two attribution forms are summed (measured near-disjoint). Found about 7x larger than this index previously counted.

Last full week (2026-06-08): 399 signed commits (+513.8% week over week), search estimate.

Snapshot 2026-06-09, confidence Medium, tracked since 2026-06-09, +36% over 6 days. Read the methodology.

Index rank: #7 of 34
Demand share: No public npm package
Business signal: No sourced business metric
GitHub share: 4.1% of tracked stars
npm channel: No public npm package

All sourced signals (1)Expand

Signal	Value	Type	Confidence
GitHub stars	45,837	Public metric	High

Pricing And Economics

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Free open-source CLI; you pay your model provider directly.

Entry price: $0 BYOK
Top self-serve price: $0
Pricing unit: BYOK only
Token transparency: BYOK/API retail
Included usage: No paid offering exists; aider works with cloud and local models on your own keys.
Overage path: Whatever your model provider charges.

Retail Token Equivalent

Cost equals your provider's public token rate card.

Plan	Price	Allowance	Unit	Token / Overage Notes
aider	$0	Full CLI with your own API keys or local models.	BYOK

Open-source CLI is free. Users pay configured LLM providers directly.

No bundled model subscription.
Cost depends on context size, repository map, model, and edit loop length.

Product

Providers

AnthropicOpenAIGoogleDeepSeekOpenRouterOllamaMany LiteLLM providers

Model families

ClaudeGPTGeminiDeepSeekOpenRouter modelsLocal models

Capabilities

CLIGit integrationRepo mapPatch editingMulti-provider modelsVoice/image support

Tradeoffs

Command-line oriented
Less IDE-native than Cursor/Cline-style extensions