Coding assistant
Aider
Aider is a Apache-2.0-licensed AI coding assistant (terminal/CLI) for Linux · macOS · Windows. It connects to local runtimes including Ollama, LM Studio.
- Category
- Coding assistant
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Operating systems
- Linux · macOS · Windows
- Install
- pip / docker / source
- Interface
- Terminal / CLI
- Model classes
- llm
- Latest version
- v0.86.0
- GitHub stars
- 47,343
As of 2026-07-13 · source · GitHub · homepage
Hardware
Terminal-based AI pair programming tool; minimal hardware requirements
Works with these local runtimes
Like most tools in this category, Aider commonly runs against cloud APIs — a local model served by one of these runtimes is the option we cover here.
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