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Aide Dev Verified Tool

Aide Dev provides AI-assisted software development and codebase workflows. Developers should protect secrets, inspect diffs and dependencies and run security and regression tests before merging changes.

Last Update: August 20, 2026

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Starting price Free + from $30/mo

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Aide Dev provides AI-assisted software development and codebase workflows. Developers should protect secrets, inspect diffs and dependencies and run security and regression tests before merging changes.

Use authorized, non-sensitive inputs and minimum permissions. Configure privacy, retention, sharing, disclosure, accessibility, export, moderation and spending controls. Test representative cases, verify facts, calculations, citations, code and generated media, preserve originals and require accountable human approval before publication or action.

A free option is available and paid plans start from $30 per month. Users, models, usage, renewal and taxes vary.

AI output may be inaccurate, biased, derivative, insecure or misleading. Review consent, copyright, training and retention terms, renewals, refunds, platform rules and applicable law. Health, education, security, employment and customer-facing workflows require qualified human review.

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Aide Dev provides AI-assisted software development and codebase workflows. Developers should protect secrets, inspect diffs and dependencies and run security and regression tests before merging changes.

Verified pricing: Free + from $30/mo. A free option is available and paid plans start from $30 per month. Users, models, usage, renewal and taxes vary.

Use authorized, non-sensitive inputs and minimum permissions. Configure privacy, retention, sharing, disclosure, accessibility, export, moderation and spending controls. Test representative cases, verify facts, calculations, citations, code and generated media, preserve originals and require accountable human approval before publication or action.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • The original Aide IDE was released as an open-source AI-native editor
  • Was built as a Visual Studio Code fork
  • Supported multi-file agentic coding workflows
  • Kept developers in the loop while agents proposed changes
  • Included chat; inline editing; and code completion
  • Used AST and repository-map navigation for codebase context
  • Ran its coordination layer locally on the user's machine
  • Could connect directly to chosen model providers
  • Supported bring-your-own provider keys
  • Stored requests and responses in a local SQLite database according to its launch description
  • Allowed self-hosted or local-model experimentation
  • Published its editor code for inspection and forking
  • Used an AGPL-3.0 license for the archived repository
  • Reached a reported 62.2 percent on SWE-bench Verified in its research work
  • The archived code remains available for learning and community forks
  • The current lab site publishes technical writing about inference-time scaling and agentic development systems

Cons

  • The Aide editor project is no longer maintained
  • Its GitHub repository was archived and made read-only on February 25; 2025
  • The former hosted subscription and CodeStory provider should not be treated as available
  • The current aide.dev page describes a developer-tools lab rather than an active editor download
  • Archived dependencies can accumulate security vulnerabilities
  • Compatibility with current VS Code extensions and operating systems is not guaranteed
  • Users must build or fork the code themselves for continued development
  • Cloud model calls can still expose repository content to the chosen provider
  • Locally stored prompts and responses can contain secrets or proprietary code
  • Bring-your-own API keys create separate cost and credential-management work
  • Agentic multi-file edits can introduce regressions across a repository
  • Benchmark results do not predict performance on a specific codebase
  • AI-generated code requires tests; review; and license checks
  • There is no current commercial support or update roadmap for the editor
  • Fork maintainers inherit security; packaging; and dependency responsibilities
  • Directory descriptions presenting Aide as an active supported IDE are outdated

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Before you subscribe

  • Check the currency, billing period, automatic renewal, usage limits and seats at checkout — prices and promotions change.
  • App-store pricing can differ from website pricing by country, device and tax.
  • Share only authorised data, and read the provider's encryption, retention and model-training terms first.
  • AI output can be incomplete or wrong. Verify facts, citations, calculations and code before you publish or ship.
  • Commercial usage rights vary by plan, provider terms and jurisdiction.
  • None of these tools replaces a qualified professional for medical, legal or financial decisions.

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