Aider

Alternatives to Aider

Ranked by category and the features they share with Aider.

1. 
   Cline Cline

   An open source coding agent for VS Code that works with any model provider and asks before each step.

   Free Open source

   bring your own keymulti-modelcoding agent Aider vs Cline
2. 
   OpenAI Codex OpenAI

   OpenAI’s coding agent, in ChatGPT, a terminal CLI and IDE extensions, that works on tasks in the cloud or locally.

   Paid Open source API

   terminalcoding agent Aider vs OpenAI Codex
3. 
   Claude Code Anthropic

   Anthropic’s coding agent: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and opens PRs, in the terminal, IDE, desktop and web.

   Paid API

   terminalcoding agent Aider vs Claude Code
4. 
   GitHub Copilot GitHub (Microsoft)

   Code completion, chat and a coding agent across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and github.com, with a choice of models.

   Free plan + paid

   multi-modelcoding agent Aider vs GitHub Copilot
5. 
   Cursor Anysphere

   An AI code editor built on VS Code, with tab completion, chat and agents that change many files at once.

   Free plan + paid

   multi-modelcoding agent Aider vs Cursor
6. 
   Windsurf Cognition

   An AI code editor with an agent, Cascade, that plans and carries out multi-file changes.

   Free plan + paid

   multi-modelcoding agent Aider vs Windsurf
7. 
   Devin Cognition

   An autonomous software engineer that takes tickets, works in its own cloud environment and opens pull requests.

   Paid API

   coding agent Aider vs Devin
8. 
   Replit Replit

   A browser IDE whose Agent builds, hosts and deploys full apps from a description.

   Free plan + paid

   coding agent Aider vs Replit
9. 
   Lovable Lovable

   Describe a web app and Lovable builds it, with a database, auth and hosting, editable by chat.

   Free plan + paid

   Aider vs Lovable
10. 
    Bolt.new StackBlitz

    Prompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack web apps in the browser.

    Free plan + paid

    Aider vs Bolt.new