Aider
The original git-native terminal pair programmer. Bring-your-own-key, no subscription.
- STATE
- ACTIVE
- VENDOR
- Aider AI
- STARS
- 49.1K
- MAINTENANCE
- 55/100
- PRICING READ
- 24 Sep 2026
PLANS AND PRICESnone published as tiers
Aider charges on a free basis, or its tiers are drawn by JavaScript the reader does not run. Either way nothing on Aider AI’s page could be read as a named tier with a price beside it.
WHAT IT IS BUILT ONread off the vendor’s own pages and the repository
| DEFAULT MODEL | None, you choose.Bring-your-own key, any provider. |
|---|---|
| YOUR OWN KEY | Yes, you can point it at your own provider account and pay for tokens directly. |
| SOURCE | Open source under Apache-2.0, Aider-AI/aider. |
| HOW IT CHARGES | Freeread from Aider AI’s own pricing page |
| MAINTENANCE | 55/100last pushed 124 days ago |
| TAGGED | terminal, git, open-source, byo-key |
BEST MODEL IN AIDERcaptured 24 September 2026 · ordered by each model’s share of the tokens Aider sends through OpenRouter, with the bundled default first where there is one
| RANK | MODEL | SCORE | PRICE / M | CONTEXT | VOLUME |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Thinking Machines: Inkling (free)thinkingmachines/inkling:free | 50.5 | Free | 1.0M | 10B |
| 2 |  Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)z-ai/glm-5.3-flash:batch | 11.0 | $0.095 | 1.0M | 2B |
| 3 |  Ox Alphastealth/ox-alpha | 4.0 | not published | 1.0M | 762M |
| 4 |  DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | 3.9 | $0.10 | 1.3M | 742M |
| 5 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (batch)deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:batch | 3.8 | $0.17 | 1.0M | 727M |
| 6 |  NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free)nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free | 3.2 | Free | 1M | 618M |
| 7 |  MiniMax: MiniMax M3minimax/minimax-m3 | 3.0 | $0.53 | 1.0M | 583M |
| 8 | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 2.8 | $1.17 | 1.0M | 534M |
| 9 |  Google: Gemini 3.7 Flash (batch)google/gemini-3.7-flash:batch | 2.6 | $0.75 | 1.0M | 498M |
| 10 | Thinking Machines: Inkling Small (free)thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free | 2.5 | Free | 1.0M | 484M |
Rank 1 is placed first because it is the bundled default where a tool has one, not because it was measured highest. This board on the console.
WHAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY RUN IN IT20 models · measured on bring-your-own-key traffic routed through OpenRouter, a large sample of Aider’s users and not all of them
| RANK | MODEL | SHARE OF ITS TRAFFIC | TOKENS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thinkingmachines/inkling:free | 50.5% | 10B |
| 2 | z-ai/glm-5.3-flash:batch | 11.0% | 2B |
| 3 | stealth/ox-alpha | 4.0% | 762M |
| 4 | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | 3.9% | 742M |
| 5 | deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash:batch | 3.8% | 727M |
| 6 | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free | 3.2% | 618M |
| 7 | minimax/minimax-m3 | 3.0% | 583M |
| 8 | deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | 2.8% | 534M |
| 9 | google/gemini-3.7-flash:batch | 2.6% | 498M |
| 10 | thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free | 2.5% | 484M |
EVERYTHING THAT HAS CHANGED2 entries since tracking began