Aider is a free, open-source terminal AI coding agent. Works with any LLM, auto-commits to Git, and requires no subscription.
Gemini CLI
Gemini CLI is an open-source terminal coding agent built by Google under the Apache 2.0 license. Written in TypeScript, it launched in June 2025 and accumulated 104,000+ GitHub stars within a year. Google shut down free, Pro, and Ultra access to Jules on June 18, 2026, redirecting consumer users to Antigravity CLI, a closed-source Go-based […]
Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic terminal first coding agent that operates directly in your file system. You describe what needs to happen, and it reads your codebase, plans an approach, makes changes across multiple files, runs tests, and iterates until the task is complete. It ships as a CLI tool, not an IDE plugin, which means […]