GitHub Copilot vs Sourcegraph Cody
For individuals this is barely a contest anymore: GitHub Copilot individual Pro is $10 USD per month (Business $19 and Enterprise $39 USD per user per month for organizations, with pooled AI credits: 1,900 per user on Business, 2,000 more per user on Enterprise). Sourcegraph Cody is a different product from the chatbot Cody: its individual Free and Pro plans ended July 23, 2025 (Sourcegraph announcement, June 25, 2025), and Cody now ships only inside Sourcegraph Enterprise; Sourcegraph's platform pricing starts at a $16K minimum annual contract, which is a platform contract floor, not a Cody per-seat price and not by itself proof of Cody entitlement. Cody's remaining value is organizational: code search and navigation across an entire codebase that powers cross-repo answers. Individuals should pick Copilot; large organizations already on Sourcegraph Enterprise should evaluate Cody. No coding-quality shootout was run.
| Decision point | Github Copilot | Sourcegraph Cody |
|---|---|---|
| Best suited to | Developers who want coding help in a supported editor or GitHub workflow and can review suggestions before merging. | Large organizations already on Sourcegraph Enterprise that need codebase-wide search-backed coding help. |
| Plans and cost | The current comparison lists Free with limited chat/agent usage and 2,000 monthly code completions. Paid individual plans are USD $10/month (Pro), $39/month (Pro+), and $100/month (Max); monthly total credit values are $15 (Pro), $70 (Pro+), and $200 (Max), from base credits plus a flex allotment that may change. Business is $19 and Enterprise $39 USD per user per month, with pooled credits (1,900 per user on Business; 2,000 more per user on Enterprise). Agent, chat, and other AI interactions consume credits, with usage varying by model and feature. | Individual Free and Pro plans ended July 23, 2025; Cody now ships only inside Sourcegraph Enterprise, and Enterprise Starter does not include Cody. Sourcegraph's current platform pricing starts at a $16K minimum annual contract for the platform; that figure is a platform contract floor, not a Cody per-seat price and not by itself proof of Cody entitlement. Confirm current terms with Sourcegraph before purchase. |
| Limitations | AI-credit usage varies by model and feature, and plan entitlements can change. Cloud-agent changes and generated code require review, tests, and secret-handling checks. | Cody requires Sourcegraph to function: it retrieves context through Sourcegraph code search and acts as a proxy to the language-model provider. Individual Free and Pro plans ended July 23, 2025, and Enterprise Starter no longer includes Cody; Cody Enterprise is the remaining Cody offering. This review has not confirmed a standalone Cody per-seat price or that a platform contract alone guarantees Cody entitlement; confirm entitlement with Sourcegraph before budgeting. |
Use the same input
Onboard onto a 200-repository codebase and answer cross-repo questions like 'where is this API consumed'.
What a successful result must preserve
Depth of codebase-wide context versus per-seat cost for your team size — with the honest caveat that Cody here means Sourcegraph Cody, now enterprise-only.
Evidence and test status
Pricing and feature comparison based on official pages (GitHub Copilot plans and features; Sourcegraph's June 25, 2025 plan-change announcement and current Enterprise pricing page). We did not run a scored comparison. Note: Cody here means Sourcegraph Cody (sourcegraph.com/cody), distinct from the separate meetcody.ai chatbot product listed elsewhere in the catalog. The comparison's Sources list links the Sourcegraph plan-change announcement, current platform pricing, Cody FAQ, and Cody product documentation directly.
- Github Copilot — GitHub Copilot plans and features ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-25), Plans with prices explicitly labeled USD ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), GitHub Copilot billing documentation ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Account and policy settings ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-25), Cloud agent research and planning ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), Cloud agent risks and mitigations ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-15), GitHub Copilot plans, USD prices and total credits ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-25), GitHub Copilot feature support by IDE and version ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-25)
- Sourcegraph Cody — Sourcegraph plan-change announcement (June 25, 2025) ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-31), Sourcegraph current platform pricing ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-31), Sourcegraph Cody FAQ ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-31), Sourcegraph Cody product documentation ↗ (reviewed 2026-10-31)