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Aider vs Crush: catalog facts
Aider	Crush
Free Aider itself is free and open source under Apache 2.0. You pay whatever your chosen model…	Free The software is free under its open-source licence. Hosting, hardware and external…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, Command line
Commits every change to git automatically, so the usual diff and revert tools work Maps the whole codebase, which is what makes it usable on projects of real size	It speaks to any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible API, lets you switch models mid-session without losing context, and…
Needs an API key and per-token spend unless you run a local model Terminal-driven; there is no graphical interface	You supply and pay for the model access yourself, and an agent that edits files and runs commands…
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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