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Comparing as AI Pair Programming & Terminal Agents
Supermaven vs Aider

Supermaven

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Pricing
FreemiumSupermaven operated a Freemium model during its active life (Feb 2024 – Nov 2025). The Free tier provided fast inline code completions with a 300,000-token context window, compatible with VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim — with no trial expiry. Pro was priced at $10/month (or $99/year), unlocking the 1 million token context window, access to Supermaven's largest Babble model, coding style adaptation, and $5/month in Supermaven Chat credits with a 30-day free trial. Team plans were also $10/user/month and added centralized billing and user management for companies. Supermaven was acquired by Cursor in November 2024. All paying subscribers were fully refunded in November 2025 when the standalone product was sunset. Free autocomplete inference was extended for existing Neovim and JetBrains users as a courtesy. The product is no longer available for new signups — Cursor is the recommended migration path.
FreeAider itself is completely free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license, with no subscription, tiers, or usage limits imposed by the project. Costs come entirely from the LLM provider a developer chooses to connect: for example, Anthropic, OpenAI, or DeepSeek API usage is billed directly by that provider at its own per-token rates, or developers can run local models through Ollama at no cost at all. Because there is no Aider-specific markup or platform fee, effective cost is determined by model choice and usage volume rather than by Aider itself.
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AI Coding Assistants
Summary
The fastest AI copilot with a 1 million token context window
Free, open-source AI pair programming that lives in your terminal
Supermaven

Supermaven Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Fastest inline code completions of any tool at launch — sub-250ms latency beats Copilot by 3x
  • 1 million token context window gives it codebase-wide awareness without slow retrieval
  • Generous always-free tier with no expiry for solo developers
  • Founded by Tabnine creator — deep domain expertise in efficient code completion models
  • Lightweight extension model — no new IDE required, works inside existing editors
  • Coding style learning personalizes suggestions over time

Cons

  • Product sunset in November 2025 after Cursor acquisition — no longer available for new signups
  • No agentic or multi-file editing capabilities (completions and chat only)
  • Chat credits limited on Pro tier ($5/month) with overage charges
  • Extension API limitations in VS Code/JetBrains constrained more advanced features
  • 7-day code data retention limit on free tier raised some privacy concerns for teams
Aider

Aider Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Completely free and open source, with no platform markup on top of LLM provider API costs
  • Deep git-native workflow makes every AI change individually reviewable, diffable, and reversible
  • Model-agnostic support for 100+ LLM providers, including local models, avoids vendor lock-in
  • Efficient repo mapping keeps large codebases manageable without dumping entire files into context
  • Transparent, actively maintained public leaderboard helps developers pick the best-performing model for real coding tasks

Cons

  • Terminal-only interface has a learning curve for developers used to GUI-based tools like Cursor or Copilot
  • No bundled AI access; users must bring their own API keys and manage separate billing with LLM providers
  • Deliberately not a fully autonomous agent, staying one step behind tools like Devin that run unsupervised for longer stretches
  • No official enterprise support tier or SLA, since the project is community-maintained open source