Best AI Models for Aider
Aider is an open-source CLI tool for AI pair programming. It works with any model via API. Strong coding benchmarks and function calling are critical for effective edits.
What Matters for Aider
Best Models for Aider
Top 15 by tool-optimized score
All Models Ranked for Aider (378 models)
Scored by: benchmark performance (90%) from MMLU, GPQA, HumanEval, SWE-bench, and 15+ standardized evaluations, with capabilities and context as tiebreakers (10%).
More Tool Rankings
Based on our analysis of coding benchmarks, capability matching, and pricing, Qwen3.8 Max currently ranks #1 for Aider. Rankings are rebuilt as benchmark, pricing, and provider data refresh.
We score models using benchmark performance (90%) from LMArena, HumanEval, SWE-bench, MMLU, and 15+ standardized evaluations. Capabilities and context serve as tiebreakers (10%). Only models with the capabilities Aider needs are included in the tool-specific rankings.
We currently track 378 AI models compatible with Aider. This includes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and other providers accessible via API.
Many open-source models are compatible with Aider through API providers like OpenRouter, Together AI, and Groq. Check our rankings to see which open-source models perform best.
Rankings refresh whenever the underlying benchmark, pricing, and catalog sources refresh. That means some signals update faster than others, and the page reflects the latest verified source data available.