Sourcegraph Cody (agent) alternatives

Sourcegraph's coding assistant — IDE plugin (VS Code, JetBrains) plus web. Distinguishes itself with Sourcegraph's code-search index as the context provider (cross-repo, codebase-wide retrieval). Agentic chat added 2024; runs Claude / GPT / Gemini. Full Sourcegraph Cody (agent) record →

What the maintainers say

Cody moved to a private repository (the public snapshot was archived on 2025-08-01) and Cody Free, Pro and Enterprise Starter were discontinued; Cody remains for Enterprise customers only.

Sources: github.com · checked 2026-10-26

Other live alternatives

  1. 1 Claude Code (Anthropic) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS — Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 153k released 2026-10-23 proprietary — © Anthropic PBC, use subject to… Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  2. 2 Zed (Agentic Editing) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 89k released 2026-08-12 GPL-3.0-or-later (primary), with Apache-2.0… Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  3. 3 Opencode (SST) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 222k released 2026-10-22 MIT Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  4. 4 MetaGPT Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 71k released 2024-04-22 MIT Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  5. 5 Cline (harness) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 68k released 2026-09-02 Apache-2.0 Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  6. 6 Goose (Block) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ ★ 56k released 2026-10-23 Apache-2.0 Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  7. 7 Aider (harness) Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same memory unit (document) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP — ★ 50k released 2026-02-12 Apache-2.0 Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

  8. 8 JetBrains AI Assistant Agent IDEs & coding harnesses

    also in Agent IDEs & coding harnesses · same conflict handling (no) · also self-hostable · also offered managed

    OSS ? Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Sourcegraph Cody (agent) →

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