Aider
Terminal-native pair programmer that edits your git repo.
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Aider vs Tongyi Lingma
Aider (Aider) and Tongyi Lingma (Alibaba) both sit in Coding. Tongyi Lingma shipped more tracked changes in the last 30 days (9 vs 0). Every value below comes from the latest crawl of the vendors' own pages.
| Attribute | Aider Aider | Tongyi Lingma Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Segment | Coding | Coding |
| Version | 0.8x | 2.0 |
| Entry cost | Open source, model costs only | Free to use for individuals, enterprise plans offer free onboarding/trials. |
| Pricing tiers | — | Individual Plan / 个人版 free · Enterprise Plan / 企业版 free |
| Model stack | Claude Sonnet · DeepSeek V3 · GPT-5 | Qwen · Qwen3-Coder · Tongyi Qianwen · Tongyi Qwen |
| Context window | — | 1M tokens (repo indexing) |
| Public API | ||
| Routes models | ||
| Changes / 30d | 0 | 9 |
| Origin | Global | China |
| Capabilities | Repo map, Git commits, Voice input | Agent mode, Repo-level context, Unit test generation, Qoder IDE, Code completion, AI chat, Multi-file editing, Image to code |
Tongyi Lingma
IDE plugin plus agent mode built on Qwen-Coder, widely deployed inside Chinese enterprises.
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