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Comparison	Aider✓ Open-source terminal pair programmer with git-native workflows Open Source	Claude Code✓ Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding agent with 80.9% SWE-bench, Agent Teams, and GitHub Actions Subscription	Ollama✓ Run AI models locally with Docker-like simplicity, 200+ model families, and full API compatibility Open Source
Category	AI Coding CLI	AI Coding CLI	AI Coding CLI
Pricing	Free (Open Source): $0 (pay only for AI model usage)	Claude Pro: $20/month Claude Max 5x: $100/month Claude Max 20x: $200/month Teams: $25-$150/seat/month API Usage: Opus 4.6: $5/$25 MTok \| Sonnet 4.6: $3/$15 MTok	Ollama (Local): Free Ollama Turbo: $20/month
AI Models	GPT-5.2GPT-5.3-CodexGPT-5.3-Codex-SparkOpenAI o3OpenAI o4-mini+9 more	claude-opus-4-6claude-sonnet-4-6	Qwen2.5-Coder (88.4% HumanEval)DeepSeek-Coder V2Codestral (Mistral)Qwen3-CoderGPT-OSS (OpenAI, 20B/120B)+4 more
Context Window	Depends on chosen model; supports high-context LLMs and uses a repo map for large codebases	200K tokens standard; 1M token beta available on Opus 4.6	Model dependent (varies by model architecture and quantization)
Capabilities	Code Generation Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Documentation Chat Agentic Mode
Platforms	macOSLinuxWindows	macOSLinuxWindows	macOSWindowsLinuxDocker
Languages	PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaC++Go+4 more	Any language via local files and repositories	Any (local inference for all model-supported languages)
Open Source	Yes	No	Yes
GitHub Stars	38,809	N/A	155,000Most
Users	N/A	N/A	2.5M weekly downloads
Rating	N/A	N/A	N/A
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