Aider

Looking for a tool like Aider (AI pair programmer that lives in your terminal)? Below are 35 AI tools people use as an alternative to Aider, ranked by leaderboard position. Each one is approved by our editors and worth comparing before you decide.

Cursor AI-first code editor, forked from VS Code

Aug 17

Claude Code Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal

Aug 17

Bolt.new Describe an app, watch it build and deploy in-browser

Aug 17

Devin Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer

Aug 17

Cursor Composer Multi-file AI code generation inside the Cursor editor

Aug 17

Warp AI-native terminal with block-based commands and error explanations

Aug 17

Zed AI High-performance code editor built in Rust with AI built in

Aug 17

Windsurf Codeium's agentic AI editor, now retired into Devin Desktop

Aug 17

Sweep AI AI that turns a GitHub issue into a ready-to-review pull request

Aug 17

Supermaven Ultra-fast AI autocomplete with a 300K-token context window

Aug 17