Aider-AI/aider
★ 49,640 stars
Covered in week 2026-W28 · the 2026-07 report
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
What aider is
Aider lets you pair program with LLMs to start a new project or build on your existing codebase.
From the repository README · read it on GitHub →
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Cursor costs $20 per month. This does it free. An AI coding partner that reads every file you own and applies changes with a single command, so you ship complete features in minutes instead of hours. Switch between Claude, GPT-4, or any model instantly. Run from your terminal with zero cloud upload or editor lock-in. Over 46,000 GitHub stars. That's Aider—it edits your real files in real repos instantly. Would you replace your paid AI tools with this? Tell me in the comments.