Pair programming with an LLM in your terminal, git-native.
Aider edits files in your local git repo and commits as it goes, so every AI change is a reviewable commit.
Works with
Key info
- Pricing
- Open source
- Platform
- macOS · Windows · Linux
- Category
- CLIs
- Best for
- Intermediate
- Free plan
- Free and open source; you pay your model provider
- Install
- python -m pip install aider-install, then aider-install
- Models
- Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and dozens more
- Your own API key
- Yes, required
- Local models
- Yes, through Ollama
- Git
- Commits every change with a written message
- Good for
- Careful pair programming where every edit is a reviewable commit
Related reading
- Fundamentals
Reviewing code you did not write
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Why your AI keeps forgetting what you told it
Models have a context window, a fixed budget of text they can consider at once. Everything competes for it: your instructions, the files you opened, the erro…
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