Claude Code vs Aider
Claude Code is listed under CLI agents, Aider under CLI agents. Shared focus: terminal. Each name links to the product's own site.
| Category | CLI agents | CLI agents |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Open source |
| Public code | Yes | Yes |
| Tags | terminal, anthropic, mcp, subagents | terminal, git, pair-programming, open-source |
| Website | anthropic.com | aider.chat |
What Claude Code does
Terminal-based coding agent from Anthropic. It reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and works with git. It also runs in IDEs and supports MCP servers, hooks and subagents.
What Aider does
Open source pair programming tool for the terminal. It edits files in your local git repository, commits each change, and works with models from many providers, including local ones.
Other options
See all CLI agents, or alternatives to Claude Code and Aider.