ToolsAider

Aider

OpenRouter rank

not in tracked usage yet

Tokens / day

awaiting usage

Usage

OpenRouter token volume

90-day daily

usage history pending — this tool isn't in the tracked OpenRouter app rankings yet

Pricing

Subscription plans

Latest captured subscription plans for Aider.
Plan$/moNotes

plan tracking pending — first pricing-page capture lands with the next crawl (no public pricing page on file)

source: vendor pricing page

awaiting first capture

Change history

no plan changes detected yet — changes appear here the day the pricing page moves

Changelog

Releases

  • Aug 9, 2025
    • Added support for all GPT-5 models.
    • Added support for Grok-4 via `xai/grok-4` and `openrouter/x-ai/grok-4` model names.
    • Added support for `gemini/gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17` model, by Tamir Zahavi-Brunner.
  • Jun 27, 2025
    • #### New Models
    • Added support for new Gemini models including `gemini-2.5-pro`, `gemini-2.5-flash`, and `gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05` with thinking tokens support.
    • Updated model aliases: `flash` now points to `gemini-2.5-flash` and `gemini` now points to `gemini-2.5-pro`.
  • May 30, 2025
    • ## Model support & provider updates
    • Added support for new Claude models including the Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 series (e.g., `claude-sonnet-4-20250514`,
    • `claude-opus-4-20250514`) across various providers. The default `sonnet` and `opus` aliases were updated to these newer
  • May 9, 2025
    • Added support for `gemini-2.5-pro-preview-05-06` models.
    • Added support for `qwen3-235b` models.
    • Added repo-map support for OCaml and OCaml interface files, by Andrey Popp.
  • Apr 14, 2025
    • Support for GPT 4.1, mini and nano.
    • Improved support for using architect mode with Gemini 2.5 Pro.
    • Add support for `xai/grok-3-beta`, `xai/grok-3-mini-beta`, `openrouter/x-ai/grok-3-beta`,
  • Apr 4, 2025
    • Added support for the `openrouter/openrouter/quasar-alpha` model.
    • Currently free on OpenRouter.
    • Quasar scored 55% on the polyglot coding benchmark
  • Mar 31, 2025
    • OpenRouter OAuth integration:
    • Offer to OAuth against OpenRouter if no model and keys are provided.
    • Select OpenRouter default model based on free/paid tier status if `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` is set and no model is specified.
  • Mar 25, 2025
    • Added support for SOTA Gemini 2.5 Pro.
    • Added support for DeepSeek V3 0324.
    • Added a new `/context` command that automatically identifies which files need to be edited for a given request.
  • Mar 21, 2025
    • Added support for thinking tokens for OpenRouter Sonnet 3.7.
    • Added commands to switch between model types: `/editor-model` for Editor Model, and `/weak-model` for Weak Model, by csala.
    • Added model setting validation to ignore `--reasoning-effort` and `--thinking-tokens` if the model doesn't support them.
  • Mar 13, 2025
    • Big upgrade in [programming languages supported](https://aider.chat/docs/languages.html) by adopting [tree-sitter-language-pack](https://github.com/Goldziher/tree-sitter-language-pack/).
    • 130 new languages with linter support.
    • 20 new languages with repo-map support.

source: aider.chat/HISTORY.html

latest Aug 9, 2025

Adoption

GitHub & package growth

GitHub stars

source: github.com/Aider-AI/aider

47,184 stars · Jul 8, 2026

Package downloads/day

source: registry stats · pypi:aider-chat

28,435/day · Jul 7, 2026

Community

Reddit pulse

30-day · to Jul 8, 2026

Mentions/day

Sentiment split

source: Reddit mentions across coding subreddits · sentiment auto-classified

latest Jul 8, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark results

Benchmark scores for Aider.
BenchmarkConfigurationScoreDateSource
SWE-bench Liteaider26.3%May 23, 2024swebench-experiments

scores as published by each benchmark; configurations differ — compare within a row's benchmark only

latest result May 23, 2024

Alternatives

Similar tools

Alternatives to Aider by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity.
#ToolTokens/day7d ΔHead-to-head
2
Claude CodeAnthropic
283.3Bvs Aider
3
Kilo CodeKilo Code
252.2Bvs Aider
5
ClineCline Bot Inc.
96.2B67.9%vs Aider
7
piEarendil Works (Mario Zechner)
50.8Bvs Aider

ranked by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity

snapshot Jul 7, 2026

FAQ

Aider FAQ

When was Aider last updated?
The most recent tracked release is v0.86.0 on Aug 9, 2025. Its full changelog history is listed above.
What are the best alternatives to Aider?
By OpenRouter usage, the closest alternatives are Claude Code, Kilo Code, and Cline. Head-to-head comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.
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