aider vs salt
aider and salt share 8 technologies: AIOHTTP, tornado, cryptography, jinja2, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, jsonschema, 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
Python50.1kRead on November 13, 2026, at commit 5dc9490What is aider built with?Only in aider
- aiosqlite
- gitdb
google-cloud-core
pyarrow
- SQLite
- diskcache
- Mixpanel
PostHog- anyio
- asgiref
- FastAPI
starlette
- Streamlit
- cycler
fonttools
just-the-docs
- soupsieve
altair
contourpy
matplotlib
pydeck
- Rich
prompt-toolkit
- SQLAlchemy
llama-index-instrumentation
- llama-index-workflows
nltk
OpenAIsafetensors
- scikit-learn
sentence-transformers
- tiktoken
tokenizers
- torch
- transformers
litellm
- llama-index-embeddings-huggingface
- filetype
- imgcat
- mdurl
tinytag
pillow
- beautifulsoup4
- pypandoc
- annotated-types
- jsonschema-specifications
marshmallow
- Pydantic
- referencing
In common
saltstack
salt
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Python15.7kRead on November 8, 2026, at commit 944a95dWhat is salt built with?Only in salt
- pymssql
- pyzmq
- bcrypt
lxml
- xmltodict
apache-libcloud
opentelemetry-api
opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- docker
Side by side
aidersalt
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
aider41,407 lines written93 code files
salt1,064,745 lines written999 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
salt0.1% of its commits signed by AIWith Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
aiderLast push May 22, 202612,461 commits50,099 stars
saltLast push November 7, 202689,855 commits15,747 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
salt2,106 test files70.1% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, aider or salt?
salt, with 1,064,745 lines written; aider has 41,407.
The proof: saltstack/salt's code at commit 944a95d
Which has more GitHub stars, aider or salt?
aider, with 50,099 stars; salt has 15,747.
The proof: Aider-AI/aider on GitHub
Which has more tests, aider or salt?
salt, with 2,106 test files; aider has 57.
The proof: saltstack/salt's code at commit 944a95d
Which was updated more recently, aider or salt?
salt: its last push was on November 7, 2026, and aider's on May 22, 2026.
The proof: saltstack/salt's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, aider or salt?
aider: an AI signed 89.5% of its commits, with Aider, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Claude Code; in salt, 0.1%.
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