Sourcegraph Cody
What is Sourcegraph Cody?
Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant for engineering teams that pulls repository context into chat, edits, and completions. It combines Sourcegraph Search, Chat, Auto-edit, Context Filters, and Model Selection to answer questions and make changes from local and remote codebases. Cody works in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and the Sourcegraph web app, and supports self-hosted Sourcegraph instances plus Sourcegraph Enterprise.
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At a glance
- Sourcegraph Cody is best for engineering teams who need codebase-aware chat, edits, and debugging inside their IDE.
- Yes — Cody uses Sourcegraph's advanced Search API to pull context from local and remote codebases.
What Cody is now, and what changed in 2025
As of July 23, 2025, Sourcegraph discontinued Cody Free and Cody Pro, and removed Cody from the Enterprise Starter plan; only Cody Enterprise survived. Sourcegraph's own announcement told Free users they'd get $10 in credits and Pro/Enterprise Starter users $40 in credits toward Amp, its new agentic coding tool, as a migration path. The old marketing URL sourcegraph.com/cody now 301-redirects straight to the enterprise docs page, and that docs page states plainly: 'Supported on Sourcegraph Enterprise.' There's no self-serve signup left — 'Cody Enterprise: Get in touch with our team.'
The founders left to build Amp; Sourcegraph kept the search engine
On December 2, 2025, Amp — originally Sourcegraph's newer AI coding agent — spun out as an independent company. Co-founders Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu moved to lead Amp Inc.; Dan Adler became Sourcegraph's CEO, with the remaining company refocused on code search and code understanding for large codebases rather than on being an AI coding assistant itself. Cody continues to exist as an IDE feature of that narrower platform, but it is no longer where the company's founders or its newest product energy are going.
What it's actually good at: it's becoming context infrastructure, not just a chat assistant
The clearest technical strength, and the one Sourcegraph is now leaning into, is codebase-scale context: Cody pulls from Sourcegraph's search index across local and remote repositories, so answers can be grounded in APIs, symbols, and usage patterns spread across an entire multi-repo estate rather than just the open file. The current pricing page goes further and positions the whole platform as an MCP server that other AI coding tools plug into directly, listing compatibility with 'Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Amp, and more' alongside a full GraphQL/REST API and CLI. For an enterprise with a large, sprawling codebase, that's a genuinely different value proposition from a per-editor chat assistant: you buy the context layer once and any agent can use it.
Pricing: enterprise-only, and the number you'll see quoted elsewhere is stale
Sourcegraph's own pricing page shows one plan: 'Enterprise plan... STARTING AT $16K... Includes credits for AI features; scales with team size... Contact sales.' There is no published per-seat price for Cody itself — it's one feature bundled into that platform contract, alongside code search, Deep Search, Batch Changes, and admin/security controls, with usage metered by 'credits.' Several third-party review sites currently quote a specific '$59/user/month' figure for Cody Enterprise; that number does not appear anywhere on Sourcegraph's live pricing or docs pages and most likely carries over from the discontinued pre-July-2025 Enterprise Starter tier. Treat it as unverified.
Source availability: was open, is now effectively closed
The main sourcegraph/cody repository is private and its API lookup 404s. What remains public is sourcegraph/cody-public-snapshot, explicitly described as a snapshot taken just before the migration to private — it's archived (read-only), Apache-2.0 licensed, last received a push on 2025-08-01, and sits at 3,806 stars, 487 forks and 43 open issues that will never be closed there. Meanwhile the shipped VS Code extension (sourcegraph.cody-ai) is still actively updated — version 1.155.0, last updated 2026-06-17 — so development clearly continues, just no longer in public. A former Sourcegraph engineer publicly criticized the earlier privatization of the main sourcegraph/sourcegraph repo (August 2024) for breaking the company's 'build in the open' culture and hundreds of his own published links.
Company and funding
Sourcegraph raised a $125M Series D in July 2021 at a $2.6B valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz; that's the most recent funding round confirmed by primary reporting, and no new round has been announced since. The company holds SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications, published through a SafeBase-hosted trust portal, and runs a public status page.
Independent reviews are thin
Gartner Peer Insights shows Cody at 4.4/5 — but from only 9 ratings, too small a sample to weigh heavily. G2's review page blocks both direct fetching and proxy access, so its figures couldn't be independently verified for this listing. The VS Code Marketplace listing is the largest independent-ish data point: 876,771 installs, a 3.98/5 average across 149 ratings — a real but middling score, and one that spans the tool's entire history including its pre-2025 free/individual era, so it doesn't isolate how the current enterprise-only version is received.
Frequently asked questions
What is Sourcegraph Cody?
Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant for engineering teams that pulls repository context into chat, edits, and completions. It combines Sourcegraph Search, Chat, Auto-edit, Context Filters, and Model Selection to answer questions and make changes from local and remote codebases. Cody works in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and the Sourcegraph web app, and supports self-hosted Sourcegraph instances plus Sourcegraph Enterprise.
What is Sourcegraph Cody used for? Who is it for?
Sourcegraph Cody is used for Chat, Auto-edit, and Context. It's built for Backend engineers, Platform teams, and Developers in VS Code, JetBrains, or Visual Studio.
Does Sourcegraph Cody have an API and what does it integrate with?
Cody uses Sourcegraph's advanced Search API to pull context from local and remote codebases. It integrates with GitHub, GitLab, VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and 25 more.
