awesome-free-ai-coding

Aider

🤖 Coding agents & CLIs · no card · archived — delisted on 2026-07-19: BYOK only — the tool is free and open source but bundles no model access of its own, and its docs send readers to other vendors’ free tiers, which this list carries directly · aider.chat · back to the whole list

What it offered

Free, open-source terminal coding agent with tight git integration; BYOK — works with free-tier provider keys or local models via Ollama

Free models it listed

The row named no free model.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Tool is free and open-source; model usage is BYOK (no bundled free-model quota)

Evidence

• Probe: the page at https://aider.chat/, anchored on open source, free
• Source: https://aider.chat/
• Source: https://aider.chat/docs/faq.html

History

• 2026-07-19 — Delisted: BYOK only — the tool is free and open source but bundles no model access of its own, and its docs send readers to other vendors’ free tiers, which this list carries directly
• 2026-07-19 — Added to the list: Free, open-source terminal coding agent with tight git integration; BYOK — works with free-tier provider keys or local models via Ollama

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Generated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18. No probe reads this row any more — it left the list for good unless a reviewer brings it back; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.

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