Pricing
Aider AI pricing context
Human-reviewed pricing summary paired with DevTune’s public AI search visibility benchmark.
Reviewed pricing summary
- Aider itself is free and open-source (Apache 2.0), installable via pip or Homebrew at no cost.
- Users pay only their own LLM API provider costs—there is no Aider subscription or per-seat fee.
- Effective session cost varies by model: DeepSeek V3 can handle tasks for under $1, while frontier models such as Claude Opus 4 or GPT-5 on high reasoning effort cost significantly more.
- An architect mode that pairs a capable planning model with a cheaper editing model is documented as a cost-reduction strategy for longer sessions.
Benchmark context
#11
of 17 in Autonomous Coding Agents
0.8%
AI search visibility
Sources and verification
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