Aider lets you pair program with LLMs, to edit code in your local git repository. Start a new project or work with an existing code base. Aider works best with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, DeepSeek V3, o1 & GPT-4o and can connect to almost any LLM.
If you already have python 3.8-3.13 installed, you can get started quickly like this:
python -m pip install aider-install
aider-install
# Change directory into your code base
cd /to/your/project
# Work with Claude 3.5 Sonnet on your code
aider --model sonnet --anthropic-api-key your-key-goes-here
# Work with GPT-4o on your code
aider --model gpt-4o --openai-api-key your-key-goes-here
See the installation instructions and usage documentation for more details.
aider <file1> <file2> ...Aider has one of the top scores on SWE Bench. SWE Bench is a challenging software engineering benchmark where aider solved real GitHub issues from popular open source projects like django, scikitlearn, matplotlib, etc.
FAQs
Aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
We found that aider-chat demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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