{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "aider", "name": "Aider", "vendor": "Aider AI LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://aider.chat", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Terminal pair-programming tool that edits files in a local git repository through text edit formats rather than tool calls, builds a repo map with tree-sitter, and commits each change.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aider.json", "repo": "https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "aider-chat" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "No account. Model keys come from environment variables, a `.env` file or `--api-key` flags, and go straight to the provider through LiteLLM.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and Apache-2.0, with nothing to buy. You pay your model provider, or nothing with a local model.", "priceSummary": "Free · OSS", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-01).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 49300, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://aider.chat/docs/", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "free", "no-card", "python", "pre-1.0" ], "lastRelease": "2026-02-12", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 46.9, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 959, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 34, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 60, "reliability": 54, "schema": 56, "security": 59, "transparency": 63 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -8, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-04. CVE-2026-85674 (7.8, filed by VulnCheck). Aider loads `.aider.conf.yml` from the root of the repository it starts in, and a crafted file's `test-cmd` runs at startup and `lint-cmd` on the first edit, through a shell, with no confirmation, model call or API key. It affects 0.86.2 and earlier, no release fixes it, and the report (#5254) is open. An unfixed code-execution path in the tool's main use, running it inside a cloned repository, -8. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-85674" ], "verdict": "Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log. No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026.", "bestFor": "A person pair-programming in a terminal who wants git-tracked edits and a small context footprint, with any model.", "strengths": [ "Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log", "A git commit per edit by default, with `/undo`", "Asks before running shell commands the model suggests", "A repo map sized by `--map-tokens` keeps its own context cost small", "Any model through LiteLLM, local ones included, with no account" ], "weaknesses": [ "No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026", "CVE-2026-85674 lets a repository's `.aider.conf.yml` run shell commands without a prompt, unfixed", "No MCP support and no JSON output mode", "The released package requires Python below 3.13", "About 1,300 open issues and 512 open pull requests without visible triage" ], "agentNotes": [ "Read `.aider.conf.yml` in any cloned repository before starting aider. Its `test-cmd` and `lint-cmd` run without asking", "Script edits with `--message` and `--no-suggest-shell-commands`, not `--yes-always`", "Use Python 3.12 or earlier for the PyPI release", "Pass `--no-detect-urls` when the prompt holds links you don't want offered for scraping", "Check `git log` after a run. Each edit is its own commit" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 46.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 13, "payments": 60, "reliability": 54, "schema": 56, "security": 59, "transparency": 71 }, "provenanceScore": 55 }, "connect": { "install": "python -m pip install aider-chat # Python 3.10 to 3.12", "headless": { "command": "aider --message \"$TASK\" --no-suggest-shell-commands --no-analytics --no-detect-urls path/to/file.py", "env": { "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY": "\u003ckey\u003e" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/aider" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Aider AI LLC", "domain": "aider.chat", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://aider.chat/docs/legal/privacy.html", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The privacy policy names Aider AI LLC and covers the website and the tool's opt-in analytics.", "We found no terms of service and no security.txt in the site's source, which lives in the repository under aider/website." ], "score": 55 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.json", "live": { "slug": "aider", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "Aider-AI/aider", "version": "v0.86.0", "released": "2025-08-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-18T02:30:27.690894615Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "aider-chat", "version": "0.86.2", "released": "2026-02-12", "seenAt": "2026-10-18T02:30:27.495085226Z" } ], "githubStars": 49602, "pypiWeekly": 68479, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://aider.chat/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:54:26.858997272Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "aider.chat", "registered": "2023-05-15", "source": "https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/aider.chat", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:41:11.707958641Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html", "kind": "changelog", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:23:17.755335757Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "3bc7d2e4729c" }, { "url": "https://aider.chat/docs/legal/privacy.html", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:23:19.855227115Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "4b2b6386e645" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T23:23:19.855227115Z" } }, "answer": "Aider scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "jules", "name": "Jules", "vendor": "Google LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://jules.google", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent, which clones a GitHub repository into a cloud virtual machine, plans, edits and opens pull requests. Outside agents drive it through an alpha REST API, a TypeScript SDK, an MCP package and a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json", "repo": "https://github.com/google-labs-code/jules-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-Goog-Api-Key` header. Keys are created by a person in Settings in the Jules web app, at most three at a time, shown once and revocable there, and publicly exposed keys are disabled automatically. Keys carry no scopes. The discovery document also lists Google OAuth with the broad cloud-platform scope. The Jules Tools CLI signs in with a Google account in the browser (`jules login`). Repository sources need the Jules GitHub app installed through the web app.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks. Jules in Pro (100 a day, 15 concurrent) and Jules in Ultra (300 a day, 60 concurrent) come with the Google AI Pro and Ultra plans, and the Google AI plans page lists AI Plus with expanded Jules limits (jules.google/docs/usage-limits and one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans, checked 2026-10-18). Paid plans are for personal @gmail.com accounts, with an interest form for business users. The plan prices render per locale and weren't read. No per-task or per-call price.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Jules docs, the API reference, the discovery document or the plans pages (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1269, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://jules.google/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://jules.google/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "cloud-agent", "closed-source", "api-key", "alpha", "llms-txt", "mcp", "no-status-page", "stale-release", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1000, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 35, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 30, "reliability": 13, "schema": 76, "security": 57, "transparency": 44 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.", "bestFor": "A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.", "strengths": [ "Public discovery document for jules.googleapis.com v1alpha with 13 methods, typed schemas, enums and required fields, revision 20261015", "Only `prompt` is required to create a session. A session without `sourceContext` runs repoless in a fresh cloud VM", "Activities record plans, messages, bash commands with exit codes and git patches, and can be filtered by `create_time` to fetch only new events", "Four ways in for an outside agent, the REST API, the Apache-2.0 TypeScript SDK, an 8-tool stdio MCP server and the Jules Tools CLI", "Free plan of 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks with a Google account, and docs served as Markdown with an llms.txt index" ], "weaknesses": [ "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change", "Newest changelog entry is 9 March 2026, the CLI's last npm release 0.1.42 was on 16 December 2025, and the SDK and MCP packages last published 0.2.0 on 9 March 2026", "No status page, no request rate figures, no Retry-After guidance and no idempotency key on session creation were found", "API sessions auto-approve their plans unless `requirePlanApproval` is true, and the MCP server defaults to an automated run that opens a pull request", "A person must sign in with Google, install the Jules GitHub app and create the key in the web app. Keys carry no scopes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review", "Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another", "Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written", "Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty", "Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 30, "reliability": 13, "schema": 76, "security": 57, "transparency": 25 }, "provenanceScore": 62 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @google/jules # Jules Tools CLI, then: jules login", "http": "curl 'https://jules.googleapis.com/v1alpha/sessions' -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"x-goog-api-key: $JULES_API_KEY\" -d '{\"prompt\": \"Add a test for parseQueryString in utils.js\", \"sourceContext\": {\"source\": \"sources/github/OWNER/REPO\", \"githubRepoContext\": {\"startingBranch\": \"main\"}}, \"requirePlanApproval\": true}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jules": { "args": [ "@google/jules-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "JULES_API_KEY": "\u003capi-key\u003e" } } } }, "headless": { "run": "jules remote new --repo . --session \"write unit tests\"" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jules" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "jules.google", "domainRegistered": "2025-01-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://policies.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The jules.google footer links the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Jules privacy notice at jules.google.com/legal answered 'Jules is not yet available in your region' to our request and wasn't read.", "jules.google returns 404 for /.well-known/security.txt. www.google.com has a valid security.txt (expires 2030-04-01) pointing to g.co/vulnz and the Google VRP.", "The API answers at jules.googleapis.com, Google's API domain. RDAP for jules.google gives a registration date of 2025-01-16.", "No status page for Jules was found." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.json", "live": { "slug": "jules", "pages": [ { "url": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:10.654949702Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6add211f604a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:10.654949702Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Aider AI LLC", "b": "Google LLC", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "None", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Free", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-02-12", "b": "2026-03-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-07-30", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "49k stars", "b": "1.3k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1/5 (2)", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Aider scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Aider or Jules?" }, { "answer": "Aider is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Jules.", "question": "Are Aider and Jules open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 54 against 13", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 44" ], "also": [ "No key needed to call it", "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A person pair-programming in a terminal who wants git-tracked edits and a small context footprint, with any model.", "slug": "aider", "watchFor": "No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 56", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 18 against 13" ], "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.0 out of 5", "No incidents deducted, where Aider loses 8 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.", "slug": "jules", "watchFor": "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-aider.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Aider", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-aider" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-amp.json", "title": "Aider vs Amp", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-amp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-antigravity-cli.json", "title": "Aider vs Antigravity CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-antigravity-cli" }, { "json": 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CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Aider vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-warp.json", "title": "Aider vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-jules.json", "title": "Amp vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-jules.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-jules.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.json", "title": "Cline vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-jules.json", "title": "Crush vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-jules.json", "title": "Devin vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-jules.json", "title": "Pi vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-jules.json", "title": "goose vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-jules.json", "title": "Harness² vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-jules.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-junie.json", "title": "Jules vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Jules vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Jules vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Jules vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-warp.json", "title": "Jules vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-jules.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-jules.json", "title": "Harness vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Jules vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Jules vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-parallax-agents" } ], "scores": [ { "aider": 54, "by": 41, "edge": "aider", "jules": 13, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "aider": 56, "by": 20, "edge": "jules", "jules": 76, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "aider": 65, "by": 1, "edge": "aider", "jules": 64, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "aider": 59, "by": 2, "edge": "aider", "jules": 57, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "aider": 60, "by": 30, "edge": "aider", "jules": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "aider": 13, "by": 5, "edge": "jules", "jules": 18, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "aider": 63, "by": 19, "edge": "aider", "jules": 44, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Aider scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "aider": "Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log. No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026.", "jules": "The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.min.md" }, "markdown": "Aider scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Aider: grade D, 46.9/100, rank #959 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/aider.json\n- Jules: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #1000 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Aider (D)\n\nGood for: A person pair-programming in a terminal who wants git-tracked edits and a small context footprint, with any model.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 54 against 13\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 63 against 44\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026\n\n### Jules (E)\n\nGood for: A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 76 against 56\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 18 against 13\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 1.0 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Aider loses 8 points for them\n\nWatch for: The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Aider | Jules | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 54 | 13 | Aider +41 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 56 | 76 | Jules +20 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 64 | Aider +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 59 | 57 | Aider +2 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Aider +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 13 | 18 | Jules +5 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 44 | Aider +19 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **46.9 · D** | **44.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Aider | Jules |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Aider AI LLC | Google LLC |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | None | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-02-12 | 2026-03-09 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 49k stars | 1.3k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Aider.** Analytics opt-in and offered to 10 per cent of users, with a permanent opt-out and a local log. No release since 0.86.2 on 12 February 2026 and no commit since 22 May 2026.\n\n**Jules.** The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Aider\n\n1. Read `.aider.conf.yml` in any cloned repository before starting aider. Its `test-cmd` and `lint-cmd` run without asking\n2. Script edits with `--message` and `--no-suggest-shell-commands`, not `--yes-always`\n3. Use Python 3.12 or earlier for the PyPI release\n4. Pass `--no-detect-urls` when the prompt holds links you don't want offered for scraping\n5. Check `git log` after a run. Each edit is its own commit\n\n### Jules\n\n1. Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review\n2. Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another\n3. Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written\n4. Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty\n5. Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Aider or Jules?\n\nAider scores 46.9 (D) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Jules leads on schema \u0026 documentation and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Are Aider and Jules open source?\n\nAider is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Jules.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"aider\", \"b\": \"jules\"}`. 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