Aider v0.81.0: quasar-alpha model support and OpenRouter OAuth prompt
Aider added the free openrouter/openrouter/quasar-alpha model (55% on its polyglot coding benchmark, run via aider --model quasar) and now offers OpenRouter OAuth when an OpenRouter model is selected without an API key. The rest is error handling and dependency hygiene.
PUBLISHED2025-04-04
OBSERVED2026-08-11
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- Added
openrouter/openrouter/quasar-alpha, free on OpenRouter at the time of release; scored 55% on the polyglot coding benchmark; run withaider --model quasar. - Offers OpenRouter OAuth when an OpenRouter model is specified but the API key is missing.
- No longer retries API calls when the provider reports insufficient credits.
- Clearer error message for OpenRouter connection issues (mentions rate limiting / upstream provider problems).
- Weak models configured for Gemini 2.5 Pro:
gemini/gemini-2.0-flashandopenrouter/google/gemini-2.0-flash-exp:free; metadata added for the latter. - URL detection no longer swallows trailing double quotes.
- Dependency bumps for yanked fsspec/aiohttp and a litellm fix that surfaces the root cause of OpenRouter "choices" errors.
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