Every category where a model named Aider for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
AI coding assistants	Developer platform	2%	6 of 46	17%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Aider yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Aider across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	2	0	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	0	0	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	1	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	0	1	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative7 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative5 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative20 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“starting with Cline (or Aider) if you want an autonomous agent at zero cost” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · budget prompt · first choice

“The cheapest AI coding assistants are free, open-source tools — Aider, Cline, and opencode” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · budget prompt · alternative

“a terminal agent for deep repo work (Claude Code or Aider)” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI coding · comparative prompt · alternative

“for terminal-centric teams, Aider is worth evaluating” Mistral Small · AI coding · paraphrase prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Be especially cautious with agentic tools that inherit your shell permissions” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cline / RooCode / Aider (open-source terminal agents) ... Why be cautious” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Aider, over the 20 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Aider was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub Copilot20 of 2010Not in the top three

Cursor17 of 203Not in the top three

Claude Code13 of 202Not in the top three

Tabnine11 of 203Not in the top three

Amazon Q Developer11 of 200Not in the top three

Windsurf9 of 203Not in the top three

Cline9 of 200Not in the top three

Continue8 of 200Not in the top three

Sourcegraph Cody5 of 200Not in the top three

Gemini Code Assist3 of 201Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Aider. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 18 of the 20 answers that named Aider and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

axify.io11

daily.dev8

augmentcode.com7

memeburn.com7

dev.to6

learn.g2.com6

sourcegraph.com6

tech-insider.org5

gartner.com4

pricepertoken.com4

Sixty-four of the sixty-four domain citations in answers naming Aider came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

axify.io/blog/the-best-ai-coding-assistants-a-full-comparison-of-20-tools11

daily.dev/blog/best-ai-coding-assistants-comparison7

memeburn.com/best-ai-coding-tools7

learn.g2.com/best-ai-coding-assistants6

tech-insider.org/best-ai-coding-assistants-20265

augmentcode.com/tools/8-top-ai-coding-assistants-and-their-best-use-cases4

pricepertoken.com/coding-assistants4

resources.rework.com/tools/ai-tools/best-ai-coding-tools-20264

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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