Aider vs Claude Code

Feature	Aider	Claude Code

Tagline	AI pair programming in your terminal	An agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal
Website	https://aider.chat	https://claude.ai/code
Language	python	typescript
Release Date	July 8, 2023	February 22, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	September 4, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
MCP Support	No	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	No	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	No	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	Yes	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code, Neovim, Emacs	VS Code, JetBrains
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	No	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	1M tokens
Terminal Bench		#2 · 57.9% ±3.8 (Terminal-Bench 4.0) ²
AA Coding Agent Index	-	62% · Fable 5.1 (max, with fallback)
Supported Models	Claude Sonnet 4.5/4.6, Claude Opus 4.5/4.6, GPT-5.4, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, Gemini, Llama, Qwen	Claude Fable 5 / Mythos 5 (Restricted Availability), Opus 4.8, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Claude Haiku 4.5
Supported Subscriptions	-	Claude Code
Pricing Model	BYOK	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	$17-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (Apache-2.0)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider	https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
Development State	active	active