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24 alternatives to Aider

AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Hey HN, We are Sandeep and Naresh, the creators of Aide. We are happy to open source and invite the community to try out Aide which is a VSCode fork built with LLMs integrated. To talk through the features, we engineered the following: - A proactive agent Agent which iterates on the linter errors (powered by the Language Server) and pulls in relevant context by doing go-to-definitions, go-to-references etc and propose fixes or ask for more files which might be missing in the context. - Developer control We encourage you to do edits on top of your coding sessions. To enable this, we built a…

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    Aide▲160

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    Hey!▲367

    AI-powered pair programming friend

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    Simplify translation and editing: your AI language companion

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    AI pair programming directly in your terminal

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    AI pair programmer that understands your codebase

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    Solver▲354

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    AI for the Command Line. Contribute to santinic/how2 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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    Lingoedit▲304

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    AiTerm▲125

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    agor▲102

    The command center for AI enablement. Empower your team with AI teammates — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini — on a shared canvas anchored on git branches, with real-time multiplayer and an MCP surface agents drive themselves.

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    AIdeaMap▲199

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    I built a pair programmer, using AI, but now am trying to go slow with new languages and paradigms using this package. I have noticed a decline in my programming skills, and wondered why I couldn't use AI as a pair programmer. Why can it watch what I'm doing over my shoulder and suggest changes? That way I can struggle through problems still and actually learn something. Results have been good so far :)

    Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Coderrr▲96

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    The fastest and 100% syntax correct coding assistant with AI

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    HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, Gemini, Amp, and Codex - coder/agentapi

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    GPT-4 powered Grammarly for programmers

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    Gitya▲93

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