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Sourcegraph Cody vs GitHub Copilot (2026): Features, Pricing and Who Should Use Each
Most Sourcegraph Cody vs GitHub Copilot (Agentdex profile) comparisons were written when Cody had a free tier and a cheap Pro plan for individuals. That is no longer true. Sourcegraph discontinued Cody Free and Cody Pro in July 2025, and Cody is now only available as part of Sourcegraph Enterprise. GitHub Copilot, meanwhile, has plans from $0 to $100 a month for individuals. This guide explains where each tool stands on October 24, 2026, and who should pick which.
Key Takeaways
- Cody Free and Cody Pro stopped taking new signups on June 25, 2025 and were discontinued on July 23, 2025. Cody continues only on Sourcegraph Enterprise.
- Sourcegraph Enterprise starts at a $16,000 minimum annual contract, so Cody is now a company purchase, not an individual one.
- GitHub Copilot has a free plan, Pro at $10/month, Pro+ at $39/month, Max at $100/month, Business at $19/seat and Enterprise at $39/seat.
- For individuals and small teams, the real choice is Copilot or another assistant. For large companies with many repositories, Sourcegraph's code search and context remain the main reason to consider Cody.
- Sourcegraph's former agent, Amp (Agentdex profile), became an independent company in December 2025.
Cody vs Copilot at a glance
Sourcegraph Cody | GitHub Copilot | |
|---|---|---|
Who can buy it | Sourcegraph Enterprise customers | Anyone with a GitHub account |
Free option | None (Cody Free discontinued July 2025) | Copilot Free: 2,000 completions/month plus limited chat and agent use |
Paid pricing | Part of Sourcegraph Enterprise, from a $16,000 minimum annual contract | Pro $10, Pro+ $39, Max $100 per month; Business $19/seat; Enterprise $39/seat |
Editors | VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio (experimental), web and CLI | VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, Vim/Neovim, Zed (Agentdex profile), Eclipse, plus CLI, web, mobile, Slack and Teams |
Main strength | Context from Sourcegraph code search across many repositories | Deep GitHub integration, cloud agent that opens pull requests, broad IDE support |
Deployment | Single-tenant cloud or self-hosted Sourcegraph | GitHub cloud (not available on GitHub Enterprise Server) |
Sources: Sourcegraph pricing, Cody documentation, GitHub Copilot plans, as of October 24, 2026.
What changed with Sourcegraph Cody
- June 25, 2025: Sourcegraph stopped new signups for Cody Free and Cody Pro.
- July 23, 2025: Cody Free and Cody Pro were discontinued. Cody was also removed from the Enterprise Starter plan.
- December 2, 2025: Amp, the coding agent Sourcegraph had built, spun out as an independent company.
Cody Enterprise continues. Sourcegraph's documentation now describes Cody as supported on Sourcegraph Enterprise, and the company positions its platform as a code search and context layer that also works with other agents, including Claude Code (Agentdex profile), Cursor (Agentdex profile), Codex (Agentdex profile) and Amp, through MCP.
If you are an individual developer who used Cody Pro, there is no direct replacement inside Sourcegraph. The closest options are GitHub Copilot, Amp, or one of the tools in our AI code completion tools guide.
Features compared
Code completion and editing
Copilot gives unlimited code completions and next edit suggestions on every paid plan, and 2,000 completions a month on Free. Cody offers auto-edit suggestions, which propose the next change as you type, inside supported editors for Enterprise users.
Chat and codebase context
This is Cody's historic strength. Cody chat can pull context from across your organization's repositories using Sourcegraph's search, and you can point it at specific files, symbols or repositories with @-mentions. Admins can set context filters to keep sensitive code out of prompts.
Copilot chat draws on your open files, your repository and GitHub itself, including issues and pull requests. For code that lives on GitHub, that integration is hard to beat. For code spread across many hosts and thousands of repositories, Sourcegraph's search gives Cody an edge.
Agents
Copilot includes a cloud agent that can take an issue, work on it in the background and open a pull request for review. Third-party agents, including Claude and Codex, are available inside Copilot as a preview. Cody focuses on chat, prompts and edits inside the editor, while Sourcegraph now encourages companies to plug its code context into whichever agent they use.
Pricing compared
For individuals, there is no contest: Copilot is available from $0, and Cody is not sold to individuals at all.
For companies, compare total cost rather than headline seat prices. Copilot Business is $19 per seat per month with 1,900 GitHub AI Credits per seat, pooled across the organization. Copilot Enterprise is $39 per seat with 3,900 credits per seat. Sourcegraph Enterprise, which includes Cody, starts at a $16,000 minimum annual contract that includes credits for AI features, with single-tenant cloud or self-hosted deployment.
A team of 20 on Copilot Business pays $380 a month at list price, before any overage. Sourcegraph Enterprise makes more sense when you also want its code search across a large, multi-host codebase. See our GitHub Copilot pricing guide for the full plan breakdown.
Security and deployment
Sourcegraph can run as a single-tenant cloud instance or self-hosted, which appeals to companies that want their code index under their own control. Cody supports context filters so admins can exclude repositories from AI prompts.
Copilot runs in GitHub's cloud and is not available on GitHub Enterprise Server. Business and Enterprise give admins policy and model controls and budgets. GitHub says data from individual plans may be used for model training unless you opt out, so companies should use Business or Enterprise rather than personal plans.
Which should you choose?
- Individual developer or small team: GitHub Copilot. Cody is not available to you.
- Company whose code lives on GitHub: Copilot Business or Enterprise, which is simpler to roll out and integrates with issues and pull requests.
- Large company with many repositories across several code hosts, or a need to self-host: evaluate Sourcegraph Enterprise with Cody, and consider using its code context with the agents your developers already like.
- Former Cody Pro user: look at Copilot Pro, Amp, or the options in our Copilot alternatives guide.
FAQ
Is Sourcegraph Cody still free?
No. Cody Free and Cody Pro were discontinued on July 23, 2025. Cody is now only available as part of Sourcegraph Enterprise.
How much does Sourcegraph Cody cost?
Cody comes with Sourcegraph Enterprise, which starts at a $16,000 minimum annual contract as of October 2026. There is no separate per-month Cody plan for individuals.
Is GitHub Copilot cheaper than Cody?
For individuals and small teams, yes. Copilot has a free plan and paid plans from $10 a month, while Cody requires a Sourcegraph Enterprise contract.
What happened to Amp?
Amp, the coding agent Sourcegraph built, became an independent company on December 2, 2025.
Does Cody work in JetBrains IDEs?
Yes. Cody supports VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio (experimental), the web and a CLI for Sourcegraph Enterprise users.
Written by Agentdex Editorial. Agentdex is an independent directory reviewing AI coding tools; we are not affiliated with the companies mentioned. Prices and features are as of October 24, 2026, from official sources linked above. Always confirm on the vendor's site.