# Aider vs Jules (slim)

> Aider scores 46.9 (D) to Jules's 44.5 (E) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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 & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- Aider: D 46.9, rank #959 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aider.min.md
- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- Aider, good for A person pair-programming in a terminal who wants git-tracked edits and a small context footprint, with any model. Ahead on Reliability, 54 against 13; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Transparency & trust, 63 against 44. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Jules, good 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. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 76 against 56; Maintenance & 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.

| Category | Aider | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 54 | 13 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 56 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 59 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 13 | 18 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Aider | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Aider AI LLC | Google LLC |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-02-12 | 2026-03-09 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 49k stars | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |