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.
At a glance
- Type
- Code-intelligence-backed coding assistant + Agentic Chat
- Tier
- T1
- Section
- Agent IDEs & coding harnesses
- Created
- 2023-02
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS
- License
- not applicable — not OSS
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo
- Pricing
- Free + Pro $9/mo + Enterprise
- Funding
- Sourcegraph — $125M Series D 2021 ($2.6B val); profitable since 2023
Taxonomy
- storage
- graph
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- extraction
- unit
- document
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- no
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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Related systems
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