Aider error
Aider: Empty response received from LLM. Check your provider account?
Empty response received from LLM. Check your provider account?Status: OpenLast verified 1 documented fix1 source
What it means
The model API returned no content for the request. Aider shows this warning and suggests checking your provider account.
Causes
- No cause is documented beyond the hint in aider's own warning to check the provider account.
How to fix it
- Fix 1.
Check your provider account, as the warning suggests. Aider's docs and maintainers give no other fix.
More Aider errors
All 17 Aider errorsThe LLM did not conform to the edit format.Status: WorkaroundSearchReplaceNoExactMatch: This SEARCH block failed to exactly match lines in {path}Status: WorkaroundModel gpt-3.5-turbo has hit a token limit!Status: WorkaroundModel foobar: Unknown context window size and costs, using sane defaults.Status: By designModel azure/gpt-4-turbo: Missing these environment variables:Status: By designaider: The term 'aider' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.Status: Workaroundaider-chat 0.23.0 requires somepackage==X.Y.Z, but you have somepackage U.W.V which is incompatible.Status: WorkaroundThe API provider is not able to authenticate you. Check your API key.Status: By design
Related reading
- Aider vs Claude Code in 2026: Git-First Open Source vs Subagent RuntimeAider vs Claude Code: git-first, model-agnostic Aider against the Claude Code runtime of subagents and hooks. Compare architecture, cost, governance and fit.
- Aider vs Claude Code: Open Source vs Commercial AI Coding CLIAider is open source and works with any model. Claude Code is Anthropic's commercial agent. Here is how they compare for TypeScript.
FAQ
What does "Empty response received from LLM. Check your provider account?" mean in Aider?
The model API returned no content for the request. Aider shows this warning and suggests checking your provider account.
How do I fix "Empty response received from LLM. Check your provider account?"?
Check your provider account, as the warning suggests. Aider's docs and maintainers give no other fix.
Is this Aider error fixed?
Status: Open. Still open upstream. Any documented fixes are workarounds so far.
Sources
Last verified against 1 source: official docs, maintainer replies and release notes.
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