Alternatives to Aider

Cursor is an agent-first coding platform that plans, builds, tests and reviews software across desktop, CLI, Slack and cloud agents.

MiMo-Code brings Xiaomi's free terminal AI coding agent with unlimited context and no login required

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding agent that starts work from the issue or pull request already in your repo.

Open-source coding agent that edits files and runs bash commands across IDE, terminal, and desktop.

Cited codebase search that hands coding agents exact file-and-line context before they edit.

Open-source terminal coding agent that reads your repo, edits files and runs commands on the model you pick.

Terminal coding agent with hash-anchored edits and the IDE wired into your shell

Anthropic's agentic coding assistant that reads your repo, edits across files, runs tests and keeps working until the ticket is closed.

JetBrains' AI coding agent for the terminal, JetBrains IDEs, GitHub, and GitLab — any model you bring.

Open-source AI coding agent for your terminal, desktop, or IDE — bring any model or use free ones.

Pi is an MIT-licensed terminal coding agent harness you reshape with TypeScript extensions, skills, and npm-installable Pi packages.

A macOS multitasking terminal for running parallel AI coding agents in isolated git worktrees, with floating approval cards.

Localforge is a free, MIT-licensed desktop coding agent GUI that runs autonomous multi-file code edits in your own repo with any LLM.

Open-source, MIT-licensed coding agent that runs on your own machine and lets you rewind file edits by conversation turn.

Openclaude is an open-source terminal coding agent CLI that runs any model — OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama — from one install.

Devstral 2 is an open-weight agentic coding model with a 256K context window, priced at $0.40/$2.00 per million tokens

Durable AI turns a plain-English problem description into a production automation with written requirements, one-click deploy and self-repair when APIs change.

GPT Engineer converts a plain-English spec into a runnable web app codebase via the gpte CLI — free and MIT-licensed.

Rover runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel, each in its own isolated local sandbox on your codebase.

A pure-Python mini coding agent harness you can read end to end to learn repo context, tools, memory and the agent loop.

Herm is a containerized coding agent that runs every terminal session in its own sandbox, so the AI agent can act without touching your

Open-source, MIT-licensed terminal workspace for running and orchestrating multiple AI coding agents in parallel.

CodexDesk puts AI coding agents and Codex workflows in a native Rust desktop app, not a browser tab.

Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and ships mergeable pull requests on its own.

Kiro turns prompts into validated specs, then ships them with parallel AI coding agents

Warp builds factories-as-code that run fleets of cloud coding agents across your SDLC with evals and benchmarks built in.

Refact.ai is a self-hosted autonomous AI coding agent that plans, executes, and deploys dev tasks inside your IDE.

OpenAI Codex runs parallel cloud coding agents that write code, run tests, and open pull requests for review

Vicoa is a remote control plane for coding agents: run Claude Code, Codex, and dozens more on your own machines, then steer any session from your phone.

OpenHands runs autonomous coding agents that review PRs, fix CI failures, and open pull requests on their own