Saleor vs Aider
Open-source, GraphQL-first commerce for composable brands
vs. AI pair programmer in your terminal — works with any LLM provider
Pricing tiers
Saleor
OSS (self-host)
$0. BSD-3-Clause. Self-host Saleor Core + Dashboard.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Development
$0. Dev tier for sandbox projects. Shared infra. Community.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Staging
$179/mo. Staging tier with dedicated env.
$179/mo
Cloud — Production
$1,999/mo. Production tier with SLA + support.
$1999/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Multi-region, SAML, dedicated clusters, PCI.
Custom
Aider
OSS (Apache-2.0)
$0 forever. Apache-2.0 licensed. Install via pip. Bring your own LLM API key.
$0 base (usage-based)
LLM token cost (passthrough)
Only cost is your LLM provider bill — Claude Sonnet ~$3/M in, $15/M out; Groq + DeepSeek near-free.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on Saleor vs oss on Aider.
| Metric | Saleor | Aider |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Saleor · 17 features
- Channels — Per-channel pricing/shipping/currency.
- Checkout — Multi-step checkout mutation set.
- Customers + B2B — Customer records + B2B permissions.
- Dashboard — Next.js admin dashboard.
- Gift Cards — First-class gift-card flow.
- Orders — Full lifecycle.
- Permissions + Roles — Granular RBAC.
- Pricing + Promotions — Rule-based promos, catalog pricing.
- Products + Attributes — Full PIM features.
- Saleor Apps — External extensions.
- Shipping Zones + Methods — Multi-zone shipping rules.
- Tax Providers — Pluggable tax (Avalara, etc.).
- Translations — Multi-language product content.
- Variants + Configurable — Deep variant system.
- Vouchers — Discount codes + gift cards.
- Warehouses + Stock — Multi-warehouse inventory.
- Webhooks — Async subscription to events.
Aider · 15 features
- Architect Mode — Large reasoning model plans → small editor model applies.
- Browser UI — Optional Streamlit-based GUI on localhost.
- Conventions File — .aider.conf.yml defines project rules.
- Copy-Paste Mode — Paste web-chat output → aider parses + applies.
- Git-Native Workflow — Each edit = git commit with descriptive message.
- Multi-File Editing — Handles refactors across dozens of files.
- Multi-LLM Support — Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, local.
- Public LLM Benchmarks — Maintains polyglot coding benchmark leaderboard.
- Read-Only Mode — View changes without committing.
- Repo-Map — Automatic project context summarization.
- Terminal-Native UI — Runs in bash/zsh, no IDE required.
- Test-Driven Mode — Runs tests after each edit, auto-fixes failures.
- Vim / Neovim Plugin — Launch aider from editor.
- Voice Coding — Transcribe voice → code.
- VS Code Extension — Launch aider from VS Code.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Saleor | Aider |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | saleor CLI | aider CLI |
| SDK | @saleor/app-sdk, @saleor/sdk | — |
| GRAPHQL | Saleor GraphQL API | — |
| OTHER | Saleor App Store, Saleor Dashboard, Saleor Webhooks | Aider Browser UI, .aider.conf.yml, aider.vim / neovim, Aider VS Code Extension |
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