AidervsGroq

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Aider

Coding Assistants

AI pair programming in your terminal

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Groq

LLM APIs & Inference

The fastest AI inference platform — LPU-powered, 1000+ tokens/sec

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FeatureAiderGroq
CategoryCoding AssistantsLLM APIs & Inference
PricingFree (open-source)Free tier available, pay-per-token for production
GitHub Stars
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30k
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PlatformsmacOS, Linux, WindowsWeb
Key Features
  • ✓ Git-aware editing
  • ✓ Multi-file changes
  • ✓ Auto-commits
  • ✓ Multi-model
  • ✓ Voice coding
  • ✓ Linting
  • ✓ LPU hardware — custom chips for inference, not repurposed GPUs
  • ✓ GPT OSS 120B at 500 tok/s ($0.15/M input)
  • ✓ GPT OSS 20B at 1000 tok/s ($0.075/M input)
  • ✓ Llama 4 Scout 17B at 750 tok/s with 131K context + vision
  • ✓ Qwen3-32B at 400 tok/s with 131K context
  • ✓ Compound AI systems with web search + code execution
  • ✓ Whisper transcription ($0.04-0.11/hour)
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API — drop-in replacement
  • ✓ Free developer tier: 250-300K TPM, 1K RPM
Pros
  • + Git-aware (auto-commits changes)
  • + Multi-file editing
  • + Works with any model
  • + Terminal-native
  • + Free and open-source
  • + Fastest inference available (500-1000 tok/s)
  • + Free tier with generous limits (250K+ tokens/min)
  • + OpenAI-compatible API — swap one line of code
  • + Latest open-source models (GPT OSS, Llama 4, Qwen3)
  • + Compound AI for agentic workflows (search + code exec)
Cons
  • − CLI only (no GUI)
  • − Requires API key setup
  • − Can make unwanted changes
  • − Token costs with large codebases
  • − Cloud-only — cannot self-host LPU hardware
  • − Rate limits on free tier (1K RPM)
  • − Smaller model catalog than running locally via Ollama
Tags
open-sourcecodingcligitpair-programming
inferencefastfreehardware

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