Sourcegraph Cody

About Sourcegraph Cody

Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant for understanding codebases, answering code questions, and helping with code generation and edits. Since July 23, 2025 it is offered only to Sourcegraph Enterprise customers: the Cody Free and Cody Pro plans ended that day, and the Enterprise Starter plan no longer includes Cody.

Best for: Organizations that already run Sourcegraph Enterprise for code search and want an AI coding assistant grounded in cross-repository context, not limited to locally cloned files or the files open in the current editor. Individual developers can no longer sign up: Sourcegraph points former Cody Free and Pro users to Amp, its separate agentic coding tool.

Deployment: VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio or web client connecting to a Sourcegraph Enterprise instance, including a self-hosted one

Skill level: Intermediate

Tradeoffs

Cody is no longer available to individuals or small teams: Cody Free and Cody Pro ended on July 23, 2025, and Sourcegraph's pricing page lists a single Enterprise plan sold on a minimum annual contract. Its value depends on the Sourcegraph search index behind it, so it is not a standalone coding assistant. It is not a local-first tool either: Sourcegraph documented its experimental Ollama support only for the discontinued Free and Pro plans, and its FAQ says a self-hosted Sourcegraph instance must have internet access for Cody to reach external LLM services (Anthropic by default). The code is proprietary: Sourcegraph moved Cody to a private repository in 2025, and the public Apache 2.0 snapshot is archived and no longer updated.

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Best for

Organizations that already run Sourcegraph Enterprise for code search and want an AI coding assistant grounded in cross-repository context, not limited to locally cloned files or the files open in the current editor. Individual developers can no longer sign up: Sourcegraph points former Cody Free and Pro users to Amp, its separate agentic coding tool.

Why use it

Cody's key architectural advantage is access to Sourcegraph's code graph and search index. When a developer asks about a function that lives in a different repository or in code not locally cloned, Cody retrieves the relevant context through Sourcegraph's cross-repo indexing, something standard RAG over local files cannot replicate. This makes it especially valuable in large monorepos or multi-service architectures.

Key features

• Cross-repository context retrieval via Sourcegraph's code graph and search index, not limited to locally checked-out files
• Precise code navigation context including symbol definitions, call sites, and dependency relationships across the codebase
• VS Code and JetBrains IDE extensions with inline completions, chat interface, and edit commands, plus Visual Studio and web clients
• Administrator-configured model providers: Sourcegraph's Cody Gateway, bring-your-own-key access to the major LLM providers, or any OpenAI-compatible API

Tradeoffs

Cody is no longer available to individuals or small teams: Cody Free and Cody Pro ended on July 23, 2025, and Sourcegraph's pricing page lists a single Enterprise plan sold on a minimum annual contract. Its value depends on the Sourcegraph search index behind it, so it is not a standalone coding assistant. It is not a local-first tool either: Sourcegraph documented its experimental Ollama support only for the discontinued Free and Pro plans, and its FAQ says a self-hosted Sourcegraph instance must have internet access for Cody to reach external LLM services (Anthropic by default). The code is proprietary: Sourcegraph moved Cody to a private repository in 2025, and the public Apache 2.0 snapshot is archived and no longer updated.

Alternatives

• Cline
• Aider