Side-by-side comparison — features, pricing, pros and cons
Cody by Sourcegraph is an AI coding assistant with deep codebase understanding. Answers questions about your code, generates code with full context awareness, and integrates with Sourcegraph code search to help developers navigate and understand large codebases.
AI-native code editor built on VS Code with deep codebase indexing and a credit-based pricing model. Reached 1M+ monthly active users in 2025 and added a Marketplace for extensions and JetBrains plugin support. The Composer agent can apply multi-file edits with a single instruction, making it the most popular dedicated AI IDE among developers surveyed in Stack Overflow 2025.
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Rating | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| Category | — | AI Coding |
| Description | Cody by Sourcegraph is an AI coding assistant with deep codebase understanding. Answers questions about your code, generates code with full context awareness, and integrates with Sourcegraph code search to help developers navigate and understand large codebases. | AI-native code editor built on VS Code with deep codebase indexing and a credit-based pricing model. Reached 1M+ monthly active users in 2025 and added a Marketplace for extensions and JetBrains plugin support. The Composer agent can apply multi-file edits with a single instruction, making it the most popular dedicated AI IDE among developers surveyed in Stack Overflow 2025. |
| Features | ||
| Codebase-aware chat | ||
| Code generation | ||
| Sourcegraph integration | ||
| Multi-repo context | ||
| Custom commands | ||
| IDE extensions | ||
| Enterprise deployment | ||
| Context selection | ||
| Codebase indexing for whole-repository context in completions | ||
| Composer: multi-file AI edit agent with diff review before applying | ||
| Chat mode with @ references for files, docs, symbols, and web | ||
| Credit-based pricing with premium models (Claude 4.6, GPT-4o, o3) | ||
| Cursor Marketplace for extensions and community tools | ||
| JetBrains plugin (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm) as of 2025 | ||
| Shadow workspace: preview AI changes before applying to active files | ||
| Notepads for reusable context templates across sessions | ||
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| Website | Visit | Visit |