Sourcegraph Cody (agent)
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.
Archived · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 55 cited facts, 0 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- sourcegraph/cody-public-snapshot — ~3.8k stars, archived 2025-08-01 (development moved private) repo fix
- Pricing
- Cody Free/Pro discontinued 2025-07-23; Cody available to Enterprise customers only (contact sales) vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: cross-repo code-search-backed context retrieval
Anti-fit: best ROI on big monorepos; less differentiated for small codebases
Pros & cons
Pros
Only coding agent with a real cross-repo code-search index behind it; on-prem deployment story is mature.
Cons
Sourcegraph indexing setup is heavyweight; agent surface lags Cursor / Cline on autonomous editing.
Claims & capabilities
Built by Sourcegraph; differentiator is cross-repo code search context; ~$150M ARR (reported) for parent.
Technical surface
- API surface
- VS Code + JetBrains plugins + web + CLI; API for codebase search
- Backend storage
- Sourcegraph code-graph + session state
- Deployment
- Cloud + on-prem
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- per-tenant (Enterprise)
- MCP
- searched not found
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (54 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Code-intelligence-backed coding assistant + Agentic Chat vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Sourcegraph's coding assistant — IDE plugin (VS Code, JetBrains) plus web. Distinguishes… vendor
- Claims / benefits Built by Sourcegraph; differentiator is cross-repo code search context; ~$150M ARR (repo… vendor
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2023-02 vendor
- GitHub sourcegraph/cody-public-snapshot — ~3.8k stars, archived 2025-08-01 (development moved p… repo
- Mindshare 15+ HN threads; Sourcegraph blog drives steady technical mindshare vendor
- Funding Sourcegraph — $125M Series D 2021 ($2.6B val); profitable since 2023 vendor
- Customers / scale Sourcegraph customers — Uber, Plaid, Indeed, Lyft, F500 (Sourcegraph disclosed) vendor
- Pricing Cody Free/Pro discontinued 2025-07-23; Cody available to Enterprise customers only (cont… vendor
- Compliance SOC 2 Type II vendor
- Data handling Enterprise: zero training; on-prem option vendor
- Deployment Cloud + on-prem vendor
- HQ US (San Francisco; remote-first) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Quinn Slack (CEO), Beyang Liu (CTO) vendor
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- API surface VS Code + JetBrains plugins + web + CLI; API for codebase search vendor
- Backend storage Sourcegraph code-graph + session state vendor
- Multi-tenancy per-tenant (Enterprise) vendor
- Encryption TLS + AES-256 vendor
- SSO / RBAC SSO + RBAC vendor
- Versioning cody.json file-backed vendor
- Schema evolution free-form / no schema vendor
- Namespace primitives per-repo + per-org vendor
- Contradiction handling human-arbitrate vendor
- Import / export cody.json + repo context vendor
- Validated verticals coding agents — large enterprise codebases vendor
- Time to running <10min (plugin install + Sourcegraph sign-in) vendor
- Anti-fit best ROI on big monorepos; less differentiated for small codebases vendor
- Optimised for cross-repo code-search-backed context retrieval vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure Sourcegraph search graph; OpenAI + Anthropic + Google APIs vendor
- Pros Only coding agent with a real cross-repo code-search index behind it; on-prem deployment… vendor
- Cons Sourcegraph indexing setup is heavyweight; agent surface lags Cursor / Cline on autonomo… vendor
- Project & sources sourcegraph.com/cody; about.sourcegraph.com vendor
- obs-opentelemetry yes vendor
- obs-custom Sourcegraph platform exports OTLP traces for self-hosted deployments vendor
- cost-token-budget yes vendor
- cost-prompt-caching no vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- cost-streaming-only yes vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution yes vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness no vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus ide vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
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References (2)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Sourcegraph search graph; OpenAI + Anthropic + Google APIs
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Sourcegraph search graph; OpenAI + Anthropic + Google APIs