Aider
Terminal-native pair programmer that edits your git repo.
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Aider vs Claude Code
Aider (Aider) and Claude Code (Anthropic) both sit in Coding. Aider is the cheaper entry point at Open source, model costs only. Claude Code shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (10 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Aider Aider | Claude Code Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 0.8x | latest |
| Entry cost | Open source, model costs only | from $20/mo |
| Pricing tiers | — | Pro $20 · Team (Standard seat) $25 · Team (Premium seat) $125 · Enterprise $20 |
| Model stack | Claude Sonnet · DeepSeek V3 · GPT-5 | Claude 3.5 Sonnet · Fable 5 · Fable 5.1 · Haiku · Haiku 4.5 · Haiku 5.5 · Opus · Opus 5 · Opus 5.5 · Sonnet · Sonnet 3.5 · Sonnet 5 · Sonnet 5.5 |
| Context window | — | Up to 1M varies by model |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 10 |
| Origin | Global | Global |
| Capabilities | Repo map, Git commits, Voice input | Terminal agent, Repo-wide edits, Subagents, MCP servers, Hooks, Background tasks, Agentic coding CLI, VS Code extension |
Claude Code
A terminal-native coding agent that reads, edits and runs code across a whole repository.
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