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Aider pricing

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Open sourceFree—Free; bring your own model API key or local modelvendor page

Aider itself is free; you pay your LLM provider.

Aider alternatives

Closest by category and shared features: Crush, OpenCode, Qwen Code, goose, Amp, Gemini CLI, Mistral Vibe, OpenAI Codex. See all Aider alternatives compared

Other CLI coding agents: Amp, Claude Code, Crush, Gemini CLI, goose, Mistral Vibe, OpenAI Codex, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Warp.

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