Sourcegraph Cody
← Back to All AI Tools1. Should you try Sourcegraph Cody? Overview
| What it is | Cody is the AI coding assistant built on top of Sourcegraph’s code intelligence layer. |
| Country / HQ | San Francisco, USA |
| Best for | enterprises with 100+ devs and 50+ repos; regulated industries (finance/healthcare/defense) needing air-gapped + SSO; teams already on Sourcegraph code search; microservice migrations across many serv |
| Check before buying | Watch out: solo developers, startups <10 devs, anyone needing a free tier, users wanting an AI-native editor (→ Cursor), autonomous ticket-solving agents (→ Devin/Factory/OpenHands), Jira-native PM workflows, no |
| Pricing signal | Free tier + paid from $23/mo |
2. Features What it does
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Codebase | aware chat: multi-turn chat with @-mention for files/symbols/remote repos, default context = open file + current repo, expandable to 200+ repos via Sourcegraph index |
| Autocomplete | whole-line and multi-line inline suggestions, local keyword + embeddings (Free historical) or full code-graph (Enterprise) |
| Inline | edits / Auto-edit: contextual diffs, multi-file refactors, explain-and-fix workflows |
| Custom | Prompts / Commands: reusable prompt templates for test-gen, review, doc-string insertion |
| Deep | Search (2026): natural-language codebase Q&A with shared team conversation history |
| Advanced | Code Graph context (Enterprise): SCIP symbols, cross-repo usage, dependency edges, Context Filters to exclude sensitive repos (auth/payments) from LLM context |
| Model | choice: Cody Gateway or BYO LLM — Claude Opus/Sonnet, GPT-4o/5, Gemini 1.5–3 Pro, DeepSeek-Coder (historical Free used DeepSeek-Coder-V2 + Claude 3.5 Sonnet) |
| MCP | Server: connect external tools, 20+ MCP endpoints |
| Batch | Changes: large-scale multi-repo PR generation (platform feature, Cody-assisted) |
| Deploy | Sourcegraph Cloud / single-tenant / self-hosted / air-gapped; SAML/SSO, RBAC, audit logs, guardrails, HIPAA/SOC 2 Type II/ISO 27001/GDPR/FedRAMP-aligned |
| No: | no free tier (since Jul 2025), no standalone editor, no autonomous long-running agent (that’s Amp), no Jira/Linear native (gap vs GitHub Copilot Enterprise) |
3. Pricing Pricing (2026-10, USD)
| Plan | Price / mo | Key limits & who it fits |
|---|---|---|
| Cody Free | Discontinued Jul 23 2025 (existing grandfathered briefly) | Was $0 (200 chats/mo, unlimited autocomplete, local context) New sign-ups closed Jun 25 2025 |
| Cody Pro | Discontinued Jul 23 2025 | Was $9/user/mo Unlimited chat, 1 GB private embeddings, model switch |
| Cody Enterprise Starter | No longer includes Cody | — — |
| Cody Enterprise | Only active Cody plan | 59/user/mo,annualcontract∗∗OR∗∗SourcegraphEnterpriseplatformfrom16,000/yr (seat- or token-based, AI credits included) Unlimited chats, advanced code graph, multi-codehost, SSO, guardrails, self-host, BYOLLM, 24/5 support |
| Amp (by Sourcegraph) | Active, free agentic CLI | $0 Successor to Cody Free/Pro for solo devs, less enterprise context |
4. Integration Access & integrations
| Access type | Details |
|---|---|
| IDE | extensions — VS Code, JetBrains suite, Visual Studio (experimental), Neovim |
| Sourcegraph | Web app — cody in browser against indexed repos |
| Cody | CLI — terminal chat + edits |
| Code | hosts — GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket (OAuth for Batch Changes), Perforce |
| MCP | Server — external tool wiring (Slack, internal APIs) |
| Slack | multi-workspace + Enterprise Grid for chat-in-Slack queries |
| Admin | SAML/SSO, RBAC, Context Filters, Cody Gateway model routing |
| No REST | “generate code” public API for indie devs; API/CLI exist for Enterprise automation only |
5. Reviews & Sources External reviews
| Source | Rating | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| Pros | — | Aggregate: G2 4.5/5 (74+ reviews, 68% 5-star), Gartner Peer Insights 4.4/5 (9), ProductHunt 4.7/5, Trustpilot 2.9/5 (few, billing complaints). ToolChase 4.3, AI Agent Index 3.8. |
| Pros | — | Praised: unmatched cross-repo context, SCIP symbol accuracy, enterprise compliance (zero-retention, SOC2/ISO27001/HIPAA), model flexibility, VS Code/JetBrains parity, Batch Changes leverage. |
| Pros | — | Complained: Free/Pro killed Jul 2025 alienated solo devs; $59/seat steep under 25 devs; indexing config learning curve; occasional hallucination on complex multi-step logic; Visual Studio extension experimental; value locked behind Sourcegraph deploy |
| Pros | — | Verdict: best-in-class for 100+ dev orgs with monorepos/regulated code; wrong for solo/small teams (→ Cursor 20,Copilot10, Amp free, Aider/Continue). |
6. Best for / Not for Fit
| ✔ Suitable | ✘ Not suitable |
|---|---|
| • enterprises with 100+ devs and 50+ repos; regulated industries (finance/healthcare/defense) needing air-gapped + SSO; teams already on Sourcegraph code search; microservice migrations across many serv | • solo developers, startups <10 devs, anyone needing a free tier, users wanting an AI-native editor (→ Cursor), autonomous ticket-solving agents (→ Devin/Factory/OpenHands), Jira-native PM workflows, no |
7. Competitors How it compares
| Competitor | How it differs | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 10–39/user/mo, GitHub-native, file+issue context, no cross-repo code graph, no self-host | Similar category |
| Cursor | $20/mo Pro, AI-first VS Code fork, Composer agent strong, no SSO/audit/cross-repo intelligence | Similar category |
| Tabnine | autocomplete-first, privacy-focused, weaker codebase-wide chat | Similar category |
| Amazon Q Developer | free tier + AWS-native, weak cross-repo outside AWS | Similar category |
| Augment Code | enterprise code-graph rival, younger infra than Sourcegraph | Similar category |
| Windsurf / Codeium — 15–40/mo, Cascade a | Windsurf / Codeium — 15–40/mo, Cascade agent, lighter enterprise compliance | Similar category |
| Devin / Factory / OpenHands — autonomous | Devin / Factory / OpenHands — autonomous SWE agents, different job than Cody’s assistant role | Similar category |
| Amp (Sourcegraph’s own) — free agentic C | Amp (Sourcegraph’s own) — free agentic CLI for ex-Cody-Free/Pro users, less enterprise context | Similar category |
| In-list overlap | none of your other cards (ElevenLabs/AIVA/PixVerse/Synthesia/Voicemod) touch Dev lane. | Similar category |
8. Summary Verdict
| Who should pick it | enterprises with 100+ devs and 50+ repos; regulated industries (finance/healthcare/defense) needing air-gapped + SSO; teams already on Sourcegraph code search; microservice migrations across many serv |
| Who should skip it | solo developers, startups <10 devs, anyone needing a free tier, users wanting an AI-native editor (→ Cursor), autonomous ticket-solving agents (→ Devin/Factory/OpenHands), Jira-native PM workflows, no |