Is Aider still around? (2026)
Yes. Aider is live and reachable, price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026.
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What Aider is
What sets it apart git-aware edits and auto-commits driven from the command line
Best for terminal users who want a free, model-agnostic pair programmer · Pricing model free and open source; bring your own LLM API keys
Aider is a free, open-source command-line tool that pairs with LLMs to edit code across a git repo and commit the changes. You bring your own API keys for models like Claude, GPT, or DeepSeek, so the only cost is provider usage. It has tens of thousands of GitHub stars and works with most popular models.
Sources aider.chat · github.com
The fine print, checked
What the free plan really caps, whether your data can leave, and how cancelling works. Each fact read on Aider's own pages, linked below.
Aider is free and open source under an Apache 2.0 license, with no paid plan or subscription for the tool itself. You connect your own LLM and pay that provider for API usage; adding extra files to a chat increases your token costs.
Aider FAQ · checked Aug 1, 2026
Aider saves your chat history to a local markdown file named .aider.chat.history.md, and you can copy those logs to share them (for example as a GitHub gist).
Aider FAQ · checked Aug 1, 2026
Use it, or see the field
Aider is live and price-verified as of Sep 8, 2026. If it fits, go straight to it. If you are comparing, see the full ranked field in AI Coding Assistants - only tools our health checks report as alive.
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