Aide vs Visual Studio Code
Aide is an AI-native IDE by CodeStory. Visual Studio Code is an AI-native IDE by Microsoft. Every cell below is read from the directory data and points back to a vendor page.
 Aide |  Visual Studio Code | |
|---|---|---|
| General | ||
| Layer | AI-native IDE | AI-native IDE |
| Vendor | CodeStory | Microsoft |
| Platforms | macOS, Windows, Linux | macOS, Windows, Linux, Web |
| License | AGPL-3.0-only Open source | MIT Open source |
| Status | sunset | active |
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry price | Free | Free |
| Top individual plan | Free | Free |
| Team seat | — | — |
| Included usage | — | — |
| Beyond the plan | — | — |
| Part of a plan | — | — |
| Models | ||
| Providers | Vendor models, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter | OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Moonshot |
| Bring your own key | BYOK | Partial BYOK |
| Local models | Yes | Yes |
| Features | ||
| Git worktrees | No | Yes |
| Parallel agents | No | Yes |
| Subagents | No | Yes |
| MCP client | No | Yes |
| Browser automation | No | Yes |
| Sandboxing | No | Yes |
| Remote execution | No | Yes |
| Diff review | No | Yes |
| Checkpoints | No | Yes |
| Plugins | No | Yes |
| Hooks | No | Yes |
| Tab completion | Yes | Yes |
| Works with | ||
| Runs | — | GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex CLI |
| Runs inside | — | — |
| Pricing verified | 2026-08-23 | 2026-08-23 |