Codebase-aware AI assistant powered by Sourcegraph's universal code search
Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant built on top of Sourcegraph's code intelligence platform — giving it the ability to search across an entire codebase (including multi-repository monorepos) to find relevant context for every AI response. Where other AI tools are limited to open files or a folder, Cody can retrieve functions, types, and patterns from anywhere in a large organisation's code graph, making it uniquely powerful for large-scale enterprise codebases.
Sourcegraph Cody is a strong fit if its core strengths match your workflow, budget, and support needs. Use the quick signals below before opening the full review.
Cody's distinguishing capability is the context it operates with. GitHub Copilot sees the open files and immediate project. Cursor indexes a single repository. Cody, backed by Sourcegraph's code intelligence engine, can retrieve relevant code from anywhere across an organisation's entire code graph — including dozens or hundreds of repositories simultaneously.
For a developer at a large company working in a service that calls another service, Cody can search the called service's repository to understand its API contract, find similar patterns across the organisation's shared library, and identify how other teams have solved the same problem. This cross-repository awareness produces AI suggestions that are contextually grounded in the actual organisation's code rather than generic documentation examples.
Cody allows selecting the underlying LLM per interaction — Claude 3.5 Sonnet for complex reasoning, GPT-4o for broad knowledge, or Gemini for specific tasks. For teams who have developed preferences for specific models in specific contexts, this flexibility enables optimal model selection without switching tools.
Sourcegraph's existing code navigation (go-to-definition, find-references, symbol search across repositories) is available as context for Cody's AI — the AI assistant can reason about call graphs, inheritance hierarchies, and usage patterns across the full organisation's codebase. For platform engineering and architecture teams who work across many services, this intelligence amplification is uniquely valuable.
Score: 8.2/10 — Best AI assistant for large multi-repository enterprises; setup and infrastructure overhead limits value for smaller teams.
Free
Free billed annually
$9/mo
$108/mo billed annually
Sourcegraph Cody is best for Large enterprises with 50+ repositories who need AI assistance that can retrieve context from anywhere in the full code graph, Teams already using Sourcegraph for code search and navigation who want AI completion powered by the same index, Platform engineering teams managing monorepos or distributed services across many repositories who need cross-repo AI context.
Yes. Sourcegraph Cody currently lists a free plan in ToolRankr data.
It has a free plan.
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