Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 9 → 8 of 37
1 category · Named, not rankedAider
16Judge labels
0First choices
3Negative labels
10 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
8 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Aider was named 8 times in AI coding, where GitHub Copilot led with 75%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business8 of 39
0%6 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market16 of 48
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise31 of 52
0%2 labels
under the label threshold
In ai coding · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
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 | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding assistants | Developer platform | 0% | 16 of 48 | 25% | 8 | under 10 labels · led by GitHub Copilot at 75% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Aider held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · AI coding · by segment
Mid-market▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 2% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 6 → 16 of 43
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 18 → 27 of 49
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI coding | 2% | 0% | ▼−2Since September 2026: 2% → 0%, −2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 6 → 16 of 48 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Aider across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Aider across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained6 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative6 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative16 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 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.
“Choose Continue or Aider if you are budget-conscious or privacy-first.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI coding · comparative prompt · alternative
“Popular open-source terminal tool for AI-assisted coding.” Perplexity Sonar · AI coding · comparative 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 highly autonomous AI coding agents (e.g., Cursor, Devin, Aider, Zed, Claude Code).” Mistral Small · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
“Tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Aider, and Windsurf ... you should be highly cautious when using them” Gemini 3.5 Flash · AI coding · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aider, over the 16 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.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Aider, over the 16 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.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. 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, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 16 of the 16 answers that named Aider and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
dev.to8
kilo.ai6
learn.g2.com5
augmentcode.com4
forbes.com4
resources.rework.com4
tech-insider.org4
zoer.ai4
aionx.co3
arxiv.org3
Forty-five of the forty-five domain citations in answers naming Aider came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
aider.chat is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aider takes 0% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.ShowHide
Search and answers
aider.chat is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Aider takes 0% of first choices and GitHub Copilot takes 75%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “ai coding assistant”
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not in the top ten
Position for “ai coding assistants”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 9,900 a month (“aider”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 585 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,507 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 362 · 40 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,400
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
Ads on Google
None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 16 of 48 in AI coding
Segment leader
75%
GitHub Copilot
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 16 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 16 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Follow Aider
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
Aider is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Aider is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- AI pair programming in your terminal
- For
- people who want to pair program with LLMs to start a new project or build on your existing codebase
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers
What Aider's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: aider.chat. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Aider's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Aider, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Aider by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Aider is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Aider, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.