aider vs litgpt
aider and litgpt share 4 technologies: safetensors, tokenizers, torch, and psutil. Both are written in Python.
LinkedInWhat they share and what sets them apart
Aider-AI
aider
aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
Python50kRead on November 10, 2026, at commit 5dc9490What is aider built with?Only in aider
- aiosqlite
- gitdb
google-cloud-core
pyarrow
- SQLite
- diskcache
- Mixpanel
PostHog- AIOHTTP
- anyio
- asgiref
- FastAPI
starlette
tornado
- Streamlit
- cycler
fonttools
just-the-docs
- soupsieve
altair
contourpy
matplotlib
pydeck
- Rich
prompt-toolkit
- SQLAlchemy
- cryptography
Googlellama-index-instrumentation
- llama-index-workflows
nltk
OpenAI- scikit-learn
sentence-transformers
- tiktoken
- transformers
litellm
- llama-index-embeddings-huggingface
- filetype
- imgcat
- jinja2
markdown-it-py
markupsafe
- mdurl
tinytag
pillow
- beautifulsoup4
- pypandoc
- annotated-types
- jsonschema-specifications
marshmallow
- Pydantic
- referencing
- jsonschema
In common
Lightning-AI
litgpt
20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.
Python13.7kRead on November 9, 2026, at commit 4738993What is litgpt built with?Only in litgpt
Side by side
aiderlitgpt
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
aider41,407 lines written93 code files
litgpt33,622 lines written64 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
aider89.5% of its commits signed by AIWith Aider, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Claude Code
litgpt0.3% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
aiderLast push May 22, 202612,461 commits50,047 stars
litgptLast push November 1, 20261,499 commits13,746 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
aider57 test files36.6% of its code files have a test that imports them
litgpt57 test files57.8% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, aider or litgpt?
aider, with 41,407 lines written; litgpt has 33,622.
The proof: Aider-AI/aider's code at commit 5dc9490
Which has more GitHub stars, aider or litgpt?
aider, with 50,047 stars; litgpt has 13,746.
The proof: Aider-AI/aider on GitHub
Which has more tests, aider or litgpt?
Both have 57 test files.
The proof: Aider-AI/aider's code at commit 5dc9490
Which was updated more recently, aider or litgpt?
litgpt: its last push was on November 1, 2026, and aider's on May 22, 2026.
The proof: Lightning-AI/litgpt's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, aider or litgpt?
aider: an AI signed 89.5% of its commits, with Aider, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Claude Code; in litgpt, 0.3%.
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