Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/Aider-AI/aider/vs/camel-ai/owl
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/Aider-AI/aider/vs/camel-ai/owl.md
Description: aider and owl share 6 technologies: Streamlit, matplotlib, OpenAI, scikit-learn, beautifulsoup4, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

# aider vs owl

aider and owl share 6 technologies: Streamlit, matplotlib, OpenAI, scikit-learn, beautifulsoup4, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

- [Aider-AI/aider](https://seerepo.com/r/Aider-AI/aider): aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
- [camel-ai/owl](https://seerepo.com/r/camel-ai/owl): 🦉 OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Streamlit, matplotlib, OpenAI, scikit-learn, beautifulsoup4, Pydantic
- Only in aider: aiosqlite, gitdb, google-cloud-core, pyarrow, SQLite, diskcache, PostHog, AIOHTTP, anyio, asgiref, FastAPI, starlette, tornado, cycler, fonttools, soupsieve, contourpy, Rich, prompt-toolkit, SQLAlchemy, cryptography, Google, llama-index-instrumentation, llama-index-workflows, nltk, safetensors, sentence-transformers, tiktoken, tokenizers, torch, transformers, litellm, llama-index-core, llama-index-embeddings-huggingface, filetype, jinja2, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, mdurl, tinytag, pillow, pypandoc, annotated-types, jsonschema-specifications, marshmallow, referencing, jsonschema, psutil
- Only in owl: Plotly, Gradio, camel-ai, opencv-python, spaCy, crawl4ai, lxml, pypdf2, xmltodict, loguru

## Side by side

| | aider | owl |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 40,345 lines written, 80 code files | 16,334 lines written, 53 code files |
| Who writes it | 89.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Aider, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Claude Code | 0% of its commits signed by AI |
| Activity | Last push May 22, 2026, 12,461 commits, 49,968 stars | Last push November 2, 2026, 500 commits, 20,173 stars |
| Tests | 57 test files. 42.5% of its code files have a test that imports them | 0 test files |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, aider or owl?

aider, with 40,345 lines written; owl has 16,334.

The proof: [Aider-AI/aider's code at commit 5dc9490](https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/tree/5dc9490bb35f9729ef2c95d00a19ccd30c26339c)

### Which has more GitHub stars, aider or owl?

aider, with 49,968 stars; owl has 20,173.

The proof: [Aider-AI/aider on GitHub](https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider)

### Which has more tests, aider or owl?

aider, with 57 test files.

The proof: [Aider-AI/aider's code at commit 5dc9490](https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/tree/5dc9490bb35f9729ef2c95d00a19ccd30c26339c)

### Which was updated more recently, aider or owl?

owl: its last push was on November 2, 2026, and aider's on May 22, 2026.

The proof: [camel-ai/owl's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/camel-ai/owl/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, aider or owl?

aider: an AI signed 89.5% of its commits, with Aider, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Claude Code.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in Aider-AI/aider](https://seerepo.com/r/Aider-AI/aider/ai)

## Sources

- Aider-AI/aider: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 5dc9490 (https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/tree/5dc9490bb35f9729ef2c95d00a19ccd30c26339c)
- camel-ai/owl: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 2df367e (https://github.com/camel-ai/owl/tree/2df367e0bfd1d97b37e59f8997fdc8762d03b6a2)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.