Cursor vs GitHub Copilot vs Mutable AI vs Sourcegraph Cody
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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MA Mutable AI AI autocomplete and refactoring for any codebase — uses your actual re... Visit |
Sourcegraph Cody
Sourcegraph's AI code assistant — now enterprise-only
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.6 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 2.3 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Paid |
| Free tier | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | 50 completions per day | — |
| Paid from | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo | $19/month (Pro) | $59/user/month (Enterprise, annual contract; plans from ~$16,000/yr) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 1m+ developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 50k+ developers | 200k+ developers |
| Founded | 2022 | 2021 | 2022 | 2013 |
| Maker | Anysphere | Microsoft | Mutable AI Team | Sourcegraph |
| Verdict | Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
Note: Mutable AI has been dark since its December 2024 acquisition by Alphabet, with no public wind-down notice.Mutable AI was an AI-assisted coding tool best known for auto-generating and maintaining wiki-style document... |
Cody used deep code-graph indexing from Sourcegraph's search platform to ground chat, autocomplete and edits in your actual repositories rather than just the open file — genuinely useful on large, tangled monorepos most... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.