Sourcegraph Cody

Sourcegraph's AI code assistant — now enterprise-only

Code & Dev Tools Paid
Researched · Published · Reviewed
RECATOOLS Score
7.5 / 10
Capability
8
Value for money
7
Ease of use
7
ASEAN readiness
6
API quality
7
Founded
2013
HQ
San Francisco, California, USA
Users
200k+ developers
Launched
Jul 2026
Developer
Sourcegraph

Overview

Cody is Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant, leveraging the company's code-graph indexing to give answers grounded in the user's actual codebase. Multi-IDE support, multi-model (Claude, GPT). Particularly strong on large monorepos and legacy codebases. As of July 23, 2025, Cody's Free and Pro self-serve plans were discontinued — it is now an Enterprise-only product.

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Pricing

Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.

Enterprise (custom)
Custom
Negotiated pricing for larger or self-hosted deployments.
  • Volume discounts
  • Self-hosted / dedicated options
  • Enterprise security + SSO

Use cases

Codebase Q&A Code search Refactoring help
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ASEAN Perspective

Sourcegraph Cody in Southeast Asia

ASEAN-region availability and pricing notes coming soon. Drop the editorial team a note via /contact/ if you can supply local context (Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Thailand/Vietnam).

RECATOOLS Verdict

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 assistants choke on. That's now moot for anyone without an enterprise budget: as of July 2025, Sourcegraph killed the Free and Pro tiers outright and terminated existing individual accounts, folding Cody into an Enterprise-only package quoted around $59/user/month, or platform contracts from roughly $16,000/year. The client that once shipped as an Apache-2.0 open-source repo is now maintained privately; the public snapshot was archived in August 2025. Sourcegraph's own answer for individual developers is a separate product, Amp — not Cody. Only worth evaluating if you're already buying Sourcegraph's platform at scale; solo developers and small teams should look at Copilot, Cursor or Amp instead.

Independent AI-assisted assessment by RECATOOLS.

What people say

Cody isn't for you anymore unless your company is signing enterprise contracts. Sourcegraph stopped taking new Free and Pro signups on June 25, 2025 and terminated every existing individual account by July 23 — a genuinely rare move in developer tools, where the usual playbook is to keep a free tier around as a funnel. The publicly available client code, which had briefly been open-sourced under Apache 2.0, was archived that August and now lives as a frozen snapshot rather than an actively maintained repo.

What's left is squarely an enterprise sell: reported pricing lands around $59 per user per month on an annual contract, or Sourcegraph's broader platform (code search, batch changes, monitoring, plus Cody's AI layer) starting near $16,000 a year with bundled AI credits. Reviewers who cover it at that tier are consistent on the strength — Cody's answers are grounded in real, indexed code across a whole organization's repos, not just whatever file happens to be open, which shows up clearly on large or legacy monorepos where context-blind assistants guess wrong.

For anyone priced out, Sourcegraph's own suggested landing spot is Amp, a separate free agentic coding product the same team built to catch the individual developers Cody dropped. That split is the real story here: one product for enterprises with the budget and codebase scale to need whole-repo context, and a completely different one for everybody else. Judge Cody only against other enterprise platforms, not against Copilot or Cursor pricing.

Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.

Notable facts

  • Sourcegraph indexes over 2 million public repositories on its platform, giving Cody the largest publicly available code knowledge base of any commercial coding assistant.
  • Cody was the first coding assistant to offer genuine multi-repository context — understanding how code in Repository A relates to code in Repository B.
  • Sourcegraph was originally built to solve code search for large enterprises like Uber and Lyft, where simple GitHub search was insufficient for codebases with millions of files.

Frequently asked questions

Is Cody free?
Yes. Individual use is free. Pro at $9/month adds more AI completions; Enterprise has custom pricing.
How does Cody differ from GitHub Copilot?
Cody uses full codebase context across all repositories. Copilot is primarily context from the current open file.
What IDEs does Cody support?
VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and the Sourcegraph web editor.
Can Cody work with private repositories?
Yes. Enterprise Cody indexes your private codebase within your own infrastructure.
Is Cody open source?
Yes. The Cody client is open source; the Sourcegraph platform it connects to is proprietary for enterprise use.

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