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

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