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Aider

Aider AI
CLI agent

The original git-native terminal pair programmer. Bring-your-own-key, no subscription.

Stars

47.9K

3 Aug 2026Aider-AI/aider

Maintenance

75/100

3 Aug 2026Last pushed 72 days ago.

How it charges

Free

Read from Aider AI’s own pricing page.

Licence

Apache-2.0

You can point it at your own provider account.

Plans and prices

None published as tiers

No plan table could be read

Aider charges on a free basis, or its tiers are drawn by JavaScript we do not run — either way nothing on Aider AI’s page could be read as a named tier with a price beside it. The page is linked below.

Vendor pricing page Homepage Docs Repository

What it is built on

Default model
None — you choose. Bring-your-own key, any provider.
Your own key
Yes — you can point it at your own provider account and pay for tokens directly.
Source
Open source under Apache-2.0 — Aider-AI/aider.
Tagged
terminalgitopen-sourcebyo-key

Best model in Aider

10 models
Captured 3 August 2026. Ordered by each model's share of the tokens Aider sends through OpenRouter — with the bundled default first where there is one. No benchmark is involved.
RankModelPer millionContextRouted throughVolumeMovement
1DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash$0.171.0MAider765M—
2NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:freeFree1MAider606M—
3DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Prodeepseek/deepseek-v4-pro$0.541.0MAider536M—
4Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5$4.001MAider467M—
5Z.ai: GLM 5.2z-ai/glm-5.2$1.831.0MAider462M—
6Tencent: Hy3tencent/hy3$0.23262KAider423M—
7DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3deepseek/deepseek-chat$0.45164KAider380M—
8Xiaomi: MiMo-V2.5xiaomi/mimo-v2.5$0.171.1MAider335M—
9MoonshotAI: Kimi K3moonshotai/kimi-k3$6.001.0MAider262M—
10Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4anthropic/claude-sonnet-4$6.001MAider260M—

What people actually run in it

20 models
Measured on bring-your-own-key traffic routed through OpenRouter — a large sample of Aider’s users, not all of them, and blind to traffic that goes direct to a provider.
RankModelShare of its trafficTokens
1deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash12.6%765M
2nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free10.0%606M
3deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro8.8%536M
4anthropic/claude-sonnet-57.7%467M
5z-ai/glm-5.27.6%462M
6tencent/hy37.0%423M
7deepseek/deepseek-chat6.3%380M
8xiaomi/mimo-v2.55.5%335M
9moonshotai/kimi-k34.3%262M
10anthropic/claude-sonnet-44.3%260M

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Aider’s pricing page has been read 18 times since tracking began and come back the same each time.

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