How much does Cody cost in 2026?
Cody costs whatever your Sourcegraph Enterprise contract costs, because that is the only way to buy it. Sourcegraph's pricing page lists a single Enterprise plan starting at $16,000 a year with a minimum annual contract, AI credits that scale with team size and are pooled across the organization, plus Code Search and Deep Search. There is no self-serve Cody plan, no monthly option and no published per-seat price.
That surprises a lot of people who search for Cody pricing, because the top results still show the old tiers. Sourcegraph's archived docs for version 5.6 describe Cody Free with 200 chats a month and Cody Pro at $9 a month. Several review sites copy those numbers, and one still lists Cody Enterprise at $19 per seat. None of those plans can be bought today.
What happened to Cody Free and Cody Pro?
Sourcegraph stopped new signups for Cody Free and Cody Pro on June 25, 2025, and existing Free and Pro users lost access on July 23, 2025. The Enterprise Starter plan, which had been $19 per user per month, stopped including Cody on the same date. Sourcegraph pointed individual developers to Amp, its agentic coding product, which was spun out as a separate company in December 2025.
The practical effect for a small team: if you had five people on Cody Pro for $45 a month, the next step up with Cody included is a five-figure annual contract negotiated with sales.
Cody pricing then and now
| Plan | Old price | Status in October 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Cody Free | $0, 200 chats a month | Closed June 25, 2025, access ended July 23, 2025 |
| Cody Pro | $9 per user per month | Closed June 25, 2025, access ended July 23, 2025 |
| Enterprise Starter | $19 per user per month | No longer includes Cody |
| Sourcegraph Enterprise | Quoted per deal | The only way to get Cody, from $16,000 a year |
Some review sites quote Cody Enterprise at around $59 per user per month on an annual contract. Sourcegraph does not publish that figure, so treat it as a reference from past deals, not a price you will be offered.
What does Cody cost a 5, 10, 20 or 50 person team?
The $16,000 minimum decides the math for any team under a few dozen people. Spread across the team, the floor looks like this:
| Team size | Annual cost at the minimum | Per developer per month |
|---|---|---|
| 5 developers | $16,000 | about $267 |
| 10 developers | $16,000 | about $133 |
| 20 developers | $16,000 | about $67 |
| 50 developers | at least $16,000, likely more | depends on the quote; about $59 if the reference rate holds ($35,400 a year) |
On top of the contract, Deep Search and other AI features draw on credits. Sourcegraph's page mentions credits included per user, org-wide pooling and purchased credit buckets, so heavy use can add to the bill. Ask for the included credit amount in writing before you sign. For the full contract breakdown, including Code Search seats and add-ons, see our Sourcegraph pricing guide.
Is Cody worth $16,000 a year for a small team?
It is if you need what the rest of Sourcegraph Enterprise does: code search across GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket and other hosts, Batch Changes to refactor hundreds of repos at once, Code Insights, and a self-hosted or single-tenant deployment your security team signs off on. Large engineering orgs buy it for those reasons, and Cody comes along.
It usually is not if your team mostly used Cody for one thing: asking questions about your own code. Where is this rule enforced? What calls this service? Why does this job retry? That job needs a good index of your repositories and a chat that cites files, not a platform contract. Paying $133 to $267 per developer per month for it is hard to defend in a budget review.
What are the alternatives to Cody for teams?
Former Cody users tend to land in one of four places, depending on what they used Cody for.
| Option | Price | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sourcegraph Enterprise (with Cody) | From $16,000 a year | Large orgs on several code hosts that need Batch Changes and self-hosting | Annual contract, credits on top |
| Amp | Individual $20 a month; credits at provider API prices without markup for individuals and non-enterprise workspaces; Enterprise custom | Developers who want an agent that writes and edits code | Usage-based cost is hard to forecast for a team |
| GitHub Copilot Business | $19 per user per month | Teams that want completions in the editor plus chat | Every person who asks questions needs a seat |
| CodeIndex | $49 to $149 a month billed annually, flat per team | GitHub teams that want search by meaning and cited answers for engineers, QA and PMs | GitHub only, no IDE extension, no self-hosting |
Amp prices from ampcode.com/docs/pricing, Copilot from GitHub's published plans, Sourcegraph and CodeIndex from their pricing pages, all checked October 2026.
How CodeIndex replaces Cody chat for codebase questions
CodeIndex indexes your public and private GitHub repositories on the branch you choose and answers questions in plain English with links to the exact files and lines. It covers 40 file types and skips vendor folders, build output and lockfiles. Anyone on the plan can ask, in the browser, so the QA lead and the PM get the same answers as the engineers without an editor license.
- Starter, $49 a month billed annually ($99 month to month): 5 users, 10 repos, 1,000 queries a month.
- Pro, $149 a month billed annually ($299 monthly): 20 users, 50 repos, 10,000 queries a month and API access.
- Enterprise, $499 a month billed annually: unlimited users and repos, 30,000 queries a month, SSO and SAML.
A 20 person team on Pro pays $1,788 a year. That is about 11 percent of the Sourcegraph minimum. If the question your team asks most is how something in the code works, start with our page on how to ask questions about your codebase with cited answers, or compare the platform side on the Sourcegraph alternatives page.
Be honest with yourself about the gaps before you switch. CodeIndex does not index GitLab or Bitbucket, has no IDE extension and no self-hosted edition, and it does not run batch refactors. If any of those is a must, Sourcegraph is still the better fit and the contract is the price of it.
Can I still self-host Cody?
Cody's client code was open source, and some guides still describe running it against your own models. In practice Cody needs a Sourcegraph instance behind it, and a supported self-hosted Sourcegraph deployment is part of the Enterprise contract. Running an open-source indexer instead is possible, but then you own the servers, the upgrades and the reindex jobs. If you go that way, plan for server provisioning with zero-downtime deploys from day one, because a code index that falls over during an upgrade is the one nobody trusts again. Our Sourcebot alternative page lays out what that upkeep looks like next to a hosted index.
How to decide this week
- List what your team actually used Cody for over its last month. Autocomplete, chat about code, or search across repos.
- If it was mostly chat and search on GitHub repos, run a 14-day CodeIndex trial on one real repository and ask the ten questions seniors get asked most.
- If you need several code hosts, Batch Changes or self-hosting, request a Sourcegraph quote and ask for the per-user rate and included credits in writing.
- If you need completions in the editor, price Copilot Business seats only for the people who write code, not for everyone who asks questions.
Frequently asked questions
How much is Cody per month?
Cody has no monthly price in 2026. Cody Pro used to cost $9 per user per month, but Sourcegraph closed it in 2025. Cody is now included only in Sourcegraph Enterprise, which starts at $16,000 a year on an annual contract, or roughly $1,333 a month before AI credit add-ons.
Is Sourcegraph Cody free?
No. Cody Free stopped accepting signups on June 25, 2025, and existing free users lost access on July 23, 2025. The only way to use Cody now is through a paid Sourcegraph Enterprise contract.
What replaced Cody Pro?
Sourcegraph pointed individual developers to Amp, its agentic coding tool, which later became a separate company. Amp lists an Individual tier at $20 a month with usage billed at provider API prices. Teams that used Cody Pro to ask questions about their code often move to a codebase Q&A tool such as CodeIndex, from $49 a month billed annually.
How much does Sourcegraph Cody Enterprise cost per user?
Sourcegraph does not publish a per-user price. Some review sites cite about $59 per user per month on an annual contract, but deals are quoted individually and the $16,000 annual minimum applies regardless of team size.
Is there a cheaper Cody alternative for small teams?
Yes, if your team uses Cody mainly to search and ask questions about GitHub code. CodeIndex gives 5 users and 10 repos for $49 a month billed annually, or 20 users and 50 repos with API access for $149 a month billed annually, with a 14-day trial on Pro features.