Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/Aider-AI/aider/vs/saltstack/salt
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/Aider-AI/aider/vs/saltstack/salt.md
Description: aider and salt share 8 technologies: AIOHTTP, tornado, cryptography, jinja2, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, jsonschema, and psutil. Both are written in Python.

# 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.

- [Aider-AI/aider](https://seerepo.com/r/Aider-AI/aider): aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
- [saltstack/salt](https://seerepo.com/r/saltstack/salt): Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: AIOHTTP, tornado, cryptography, jinja2, markdown-it-py, markupsafe, jsonschema, psutil
- 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, Google, llama-index-instrumentation, llama-index-workflows, nltk, OpenAI, safetensors, scikit-learn, sentence-transformers, tiktoken, tokenizers, torch, transformers, litellm, llama-index-core, llama-index-embeddings-huggingface, filetype, imgcat, mdurl, tinytag, pillow, beautifulsoup4, pypandoc, annotated-types, jsonschema-specifications, marshmallow, Pydantic, referencing
- Only in salt: pymssql, pyzmq, bcrypt, lxml, xmltodict, apache-libcloud, opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-exporter-prometheus, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-sdk, docker

## Side by side

| | aider | salt |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 41,407 lines written, 93 code files | 1,064,745 lines written, 999 code files |
| Who writes it | 89.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Aider, Gemini CLI, Codex, and Claude Code | 0.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push May 22, 2026, 12,461 commits, 50,099 stars | Last push November 7, 2026, 89,855 commits, 15,747 stars |
| Tests | 57 test files. 36.6% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,106 test files. 70.1% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- 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 salt?

salt, with 1,064,745 lines written; aider has 41,407.

The proof: [saltstack/salt's code at commit 944a95d](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/944a95d59ca465f913294f7d94af7de1cbb3ca98)

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

aider, with 50,099 stars; salt has 15,747.

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

### 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](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/944a95d59ca465f913294f7d94af7de1cbb3ca98)

### 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](https://github.com/saltstack/salt/commits)

### 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%.

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 13, 2026, at commit 5dc9490 (https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/tree/5dc9490bb35f9729ef2c95d00a19ccd30c26339c)
- saltstack/salt: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 944a95d (https://github.com/saltstack/salt/tree/944a95d59ca465f913294f7d94af7de1cbb3ca98)

## 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.