Cody Is Enterprise-Only Now — What It Really Costs
Cody Free and Pro were retired in July 2025, and since June 2026 the only way to buy Cody is a Sourcegraph Enterprise contract with a $16,000/year minimum. Sourcegraph does not publish a per-user price, credits are pooled per user, and the individual path it pointed developers to is Amp — which spun out as an independent company in December 2025.
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Quick Verdict
7.4 / 10 — An elite codebase-context platform, sold on terms most developers cannot buy.
Cody still does something almost nothing else does well: answer questions grounded in a cross-repository code graph. The problem is no longer technical. Since July 2025 there has been no personal tier, since June 2026 there is a single Enterprise plan with a $16,000 annual minimum, and the agentic product that carried Cody's future — Amp — now belongs to a different company. If you already run Sourcegraph across a large polyrepo estate, Cody is the natural assistant layer and the MCP Server makes it useful to every other agent you deploy. If you are an individual or a small team, the honest answer is that this product is no longer sold to you.
Worth it if…
- You already run Sourcegraph across a large monorepo or many repos
- You need cross-repo answers that windowed-context tools cannot ground
- You have compliance requirements: SSO, audit, code attribution, data residency
- You want one context layer that Claude Code, Cursor or Amp can query over MCP
Walk away if…
- You are an individual developer — there is no self-serve plan to buy
- You are under roughly 100K lines of code and cost-sensitive
- You want local models or air-gapped use without an Enterprise contract
- You mainly want an editor: Cursor or Copilot does that for ~$20/mo
What the $16K Contract Actually Buys
Cross-Repository Code Graph
Sourcegraph indexes your whole estate — symbol definitions, call sites, type signatures — and Cody answers from that graph rather than from the files you happen to have open. On a 500K-line monorepo this is the difference between a grounded answer and a plausible guess.
Code Search and Deep Search
Whole-codebase search plus AI-assisted Deep Search over every repository you have connected. This is the part of the platform teams keep paying for even when they stop using the assistant chat.
MCP Server for Other Agents
The pricing page now lists Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Amp among the agents that can consume Sourcegraph code intelligence over MCP. Cody is no longer the only way to use the context layer — and for many teams that is the reason to keep the contract.
Batch Changes and Code Insights
Run large-scale changes across many repositories and track trends over time. Mechanical migrations that would take a quarter of human effort become a scheduled operation.
Enterprise Governance
SSO/SAML, SCIM where supported, audit logs, repo-permission-aware context, code attribution, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 posture, zero data retention policies, and single-tenant cloud or self-hosted deployment for regulated environments.
Credits Pooled Per User
AI credits are included per user, pooled across the organisation, and do not expire monthly — purchased buckets roll over at renewal. Volume buckets are a paid add-on, so model usage is negotiated rather than metered at retail.
Pricing
The only plan on the official pricing page. Covers the full Sourcegraph platform plus Cody, with AI credits included per user. Per-seat pricing is not published — it comes from sales.
- $16,000/yr minimum
- Code graph + Deep Search
- Credits included per user
- Sales-led procurement
Single-tenant cloud or a self-hosted deployment for data-residency and air-gapped requirements. It is a deployment option within Enterprise rather than a cheaper separate edition.
- Self-hosted deployment
- Air-gapped option
- Data residency
- Same contract minimum
Purchased credit buckets raise the AI usage ceiling and roll over at renewal. If your team leans heavily on agents, this add-on — not the seat price — is what changes the bill.
- Add-on purchase
- Rolls over at renewal
- Org-wide pooling
- Negotiated volume
The old personal tiers are gone. Anyone quoting a $9/month Pro plan is describing a product Sourcegraph stopped selling on 23 July 2025 and replaced with Amp for individuals.
- No longer sold
- Sign-ups closed Jul 2025
- Individuals sent to Amp
- Do not budget for it
* Cody has no published per-user price. The $16,000 minimum annual contract comes from Sourcegraph's own pricing page (checked September 12, 2026); per-user figures around $59/month come from third-party trackers and should be confirmed in writing before you budget.
What Cody Really Costs in 2026
| Task / Plan | Usage | Typical cost | What to watch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise minimum | One plan, $16K/yr minimum annual contract | $16K+/yr | The only number Sourcegraph publishes — everything else is a sales conversation. |
| Per-user list price | Annual contract, commonly quoted near $59/user/mo | ~$700/user/yr | Never published by the vendor. Treat third-party figures as estimates until you have a quote. |
| AI credits | Included per user, pooled org-wide, no monthly expiry | Included | Purchased buckets roll over at renewal; volume buckets are a separate paid add-on. |
| Self-hosted deployment | Single-tenant cloud or self-hosted / air-gapped | Same Enterprise floor | Compliance deployment is not a cheaper edition — it starts at the same $16K minimum. |
| Individual developer | No self-serve tier since July 2025 | Not available | Sourcegraph's own answer for individuals was Amp, which is now a separate company. |
| Comparable capability elsewhere | Cursor or Copilot ~$20/mo; Cline/Aider/Continue $0 tool cost | $0–40/mo | You give up the cross-repo code graph — which only pays off above roughly 100K lines. |
| Free trial | Listed as an FAQ question, no published answer | Unknown | Ask sales directly, and get trial scope, minimum term and credit terms in writing. |
* Sourced from Sourcegraph's official pricing page (checked September 12, 2026), its published platform documentation, and third-party price trackers. Cody has no self-serve tier, so none of these figures can be verified by signing up — get them in a quote.
Cody Has No Discounts — Here Is How to Pay Less
There are no Cody coupons: the savings come from not buying an Enterprise contract you do not need.
Cody vs The Alternatives
Cody vs Amp (Sourcegraph spin-out)
Same lineage, different company and economicsAmp is where Cody's agentic future went: founded in December 2025 by Sourcegraph's original co-founders. It bills pay-as-you-go at provider rates with zero markup, has a $5 minimum, and its free $10/day credit tier closed to new sign-ups in February 2026. If what you liked about Cody was the agent, Amp is the product — but it is a separate vendor and cannot be bought as part of an Enterprise contract.
Amp for individuals, Cody for estatesCody vs Cursor
$20/mo versus a $16K contractCursor is a polished AI editor at $20/month that most individual developers and small teams should be using. It works from an editor-level context window, so it cannot answer cross-repository questions the way the code graph can. The comparison is not really quality — it is whether your organisation has a multi-repo context problem that justifies a five-figure annual contract.
Cursor below 100K LOCCody vs GitHub Copilot
GitHub-native breadth vs code graph depthCopilot is cheaper, embedded in the GitHub workflow, and now priced per seat with included AI credits after the September 2026 adjustment. Cody counters with cross-repo indexing, self-hosted deployment and code attribution. GitHub-centric teams generally get more value per dollar from Copilot; regulated polyrepo teams are the ones Cody is built for.
Copilot for most teamsCody vs Cline / Aider / Continue
Free tooling plus your own keyAll three are free or open source and let you bring any model, including local ones, with no per-seat fee. They will not give you a cross-repository index or audit-grade governance, but they cover day-to-day agentic coding at a fraction of the cost. For anyone who does not need the code graph, this is where the value is.
Best cost controlWho Cody Is Still For
Large monorepos past 100K lines
The code graph resolves symbols and call sites across hundreds of files, where editor-scoped tools fall back to guessing.
Polyrepo and microservice estates
Cross-repository intelligence traces dependencies between services, shared libraries and infrastructure repos — the scenario Cody was built for.
Regulated industries
Finance, healthcare and public sector teams need SSO, audit logs, code attribution, zero retention and self-hosted deployment to clear review.
Teams running several agents
With the MCP Server, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Amp can query the same code intelligence — one context layer instead of six.
Mechanical migrations at scale
Batch Changes and Code Insights turn quarter-long migrations across dozens of repos into scheduled, auditable operations.
Codebase Q&A you can cite
Answers grounded in real definitions and call sites, with attribution, rather than plausible-sounding summaries.
Evaluate It Without Committing $16K
Confirm you cannot buy it self-serve
There is no sign-up flow and no free tier. If you need a tool today for one developer, stop here and use Cursor, Copilot or Cline instead.
Book a demo through sales
Every call to action on the pricing page routes to Contact sales. Ask for the minimum annual contract, the per-user price, the credits included per user and the free-trial terms in the same conversation.
Get the credit terms in writing
Ask how credits pool, whether purchased buckets roll over at renewal, and what happens when the pool empties — the credit add-on is where budgets drift.
Pilot on a subset of repositories
Index a representative slice of your estate — including the ugliest polyrepo corners — and measure answer quality against your actual questions, not a demo repo.
Decide the split with Amp or Cursor
Most organisations end up with Cody for shared context and an editor agent for individual flow. Budget them separately so the $16K floor is not carrying personal workflows.
FAQ
Is Cody by Sourcegraph free in 2026?
No. Cody Free and Cody Pro were retired in July 2025 — new sign-ups for the $9/month Pro plan stopped then — and since June 2026 the only way to buy Cody is a Sourcegraph Enterprise contract. The official pricing page shows a single plan with a $16,000 minimum annual contract and no self-serve tier at all.
How much does Cody cost?
The only published number is the Enterprise minimum: $16,000 per year. Sourcegraph does not publish a per-user price, and third-party trackers commonly cite around $59 per user per month on an annual contract. Because procurement runs through Contact sales, treat any per-seat figure you see elsewhere as an estimate and get the number in writing.
Is there a free trial for Cody?
The pricing page lists a question about a free trial but does not publish an answer, and every call to action leads to sales. Plan for a sales conversation rather than a self-serve evaluation, and ask explicitly about the trial terms, the minimum contract and whether credits are included before you commit.
What happened to Cody Free and Pro?
Sourcegraph retired both tiers on 23 July 2025 and pointed individual developers at Amp instead. The old $9/month Pro plan no longer exists, so anyone searching for Cody pricing expecting a cheap personal tier is looking at a product that was discontinued more than a year ago.
Is Amp part of Cody?
No — Amp is an independent company. Sourcegraph co-founders Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu left in December 2025 to found Amp Inc., taking the agentic product with them, and Amp now ships as its own CLI and IDE agent at ampcode.com. Its model is completely different from Cody: pay-as-you-go at provider rates with zero markup and a $5 minimum, an Amp Free tier of $10/day in credits that stopped accepting new sign-ups on 10 February 2026, and an Enterprise plan that adds a 50% markup plus a $1,000 one-time onboarding fee.
Does Sourcegraph still mention Cody on its pricing page?
No. The current pricing page shows one Enterprise plan, AI credits, and a list of coding agents that can plug into its code intelligence through the MCP Server — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Amp named among them. That is a signal worth understanding: the strategy is now selling codebase context to other people's agents rather than a standalone assistant.
How do AI credits work on the Enterprise plan?
Credits are included per user, pooled at organisation level, and do not expire monthly; purchased credit buckets roll over at renewal. Volume credit buckets are a paid add-on. The number of credits included per user is not published, so ask for it alongside the per-seat price — the effective cost of AI usage is what changes the value of the contract.
What do you actually get for $16,000+ a year?
The full Sourcegraph platform: whole-codebase search and navigation, Deep Search, the cross-repository code graph, Code Insights, Code Monitoring, Batch Changes, MCP Server, GraphQL and REST APIs, CLI access, single-tenant cloud or self-hosted deployment, enterprise admin and security controls, and 24x5 support. Cody is the assistant layer on top of that platform rather than a standalone subscription.
Which IDEs does Cody support?
VS Code, JetBrains (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, GoLand, WebStorm) and Neovim, with Visual Studio support experimental, plus a web interface and CLI access. It does not run as a GitHub pull-request bot the way Copilot does.
Does Cody support local models or offline use?
Not as a first-class feature. Cody uses Sourcegraph-hosted models, so you cannot point it at Ollama or LM Studio the way you can with Aider or Continue.dev. Enterprise customers can configure custom models and self-host Sourcegraph for air-gapped environments, but that sits inside the same Enterprise contract. If local-model freedom is the goal, look at Continue, Aider, Cline or Refact instead.
Who should still buy Cody in 2026?
Large organisations already invested in the Sourcegraph platform: polyrepo or monorepo codebases well past 100K lines, teams with compliance obligations (SSO, audit logs, code attribution, zero data retention, data residency), and teams who want one codebase-context layer that several different agents can query through MCP. If you are not one of those, the $16K floor is very hard to justify.
What should individuals and small teams use instead?
For a personal workflow, Cursor or GitHub Copilot at around $20 per month covers more than what most individuals used Cody Free for. For zero tool cost, Cline, Aider or Continue with your own API key cost nothing but model usage. If you specifically want the Sourcegraph lineage, Amp is the product that inherited it — but its free tier is closed to new sign-ups, so budget the pay-as-you-go rates.