How much does Sourcebot cost?
Sourcebot costs $0 on the Basic plan and $20 per user per month on Pro, according to sourcebot.dev/pricing. Enterprise has no public price and goes through sales. Pro comes with a 14-day free trial, and an annual billing option is offered alongside monthly. All three plans are self-hosted: Sourcebot ships as a Docker image (with a Helm chart for Kubernetes) that you deploy on your own infrastructure.
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | Code search across repos and branches, regex, symbol and filtered search, Git history and blame, file explorer, community support |
| Pro | $20 per user/month, 14-day trial | Ask Sourcebot (AI answers), agent code context, go to definition and find references, SSO, audit logs, permission syncing, organization management, onboarding support |
| Enterprise | Custom quote | Dedicated Slack channel, support engineer with SLAs, custom MSA, offline license |
The split matters for buyers. Basic is a fast keyword and regex search engine built on Zoekt. The features most teams now shop for, plain-English answers about the code, SSO and audit logs, sit in Pro.
What Sourcebot Pro costs a 10, 20 and 50 person team
Pro is priced per user, so the license line scales with headcount. At list price:
| Users | Pro per month | Pro per year |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | $200 | $2,400 |
| 20 | $400 | $4,800 |
| 50 | $1,000 | $12,000 |
Count everyone who needs access, not only engineers. Product managers, QA and support staff who look up how a feature behaves each take a seat, and SSO with permission syncing is the reason many teams pick Pro in the first place.
The costs that are not on the pricing page
Because Sourcebot is self-hosted, the license is only part of the bill. Three costs land on your side of the ledger.
Compute and storage. The official Helm chart deploys three services by default: Sourcebot itself (2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory recommended), PostgreSQL (2 cores, 4 GiB) and Redis or Valkey (1 core, 1.5 GiB), each with an 8 GiB persistent volume to start. That is roughly 5 cores and 10 GiB of memory before the search index grows with your repos. On AWS, a general purpose m6i.xlarge (4 vCPU, 16 GiB) runs about $140 a month on demand in us-east-1, and a team that wants headroom or a separate database instance will spend more. Reserved pricing or hardware you already own lowers that number.
Model tokens. Ask Sourcebot sends questions to an LLM provider that you configure with your own API key. Sourcebot does not resell model usage, so the token bill comes from your OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or cloud account and depends on how many questions people ask. Budget for it and set a spending cap with the provider before rollout.
People time. Someone has to install upgrades, rotate the code host tokens, watch disk usage as the index grows, back up Postgres and fix the box when it stops answering. If you self-host, put the instance behind uptime monitoring that pings the server every 30 seconds so the team hears about an outage before engineers start filing tickets. Even two hours a month of a senior engineer's time is worth more than the Pro licenses for a small team.
Is Sourcebot free?
Yes, Sourcebot Basic is free to self-host. It includes the search UI, regex and symbol search, Git history and blame, and community support. The free plan does not include Ask Sourcebot, code navigation, SSO or audit logs, so a team that wants AI answers about its code or single sign-on needs Pro at $20 per user per month.
Is there a hosted version of Sourcebot?
Not on the public pricing page. Sourcebot describes itself as designed to be self-hosted, and its data residency promise is that code never leaves your deployment. That is the right call for teams with strict on-premises rules, and Sourcebot supports more code hosts than most tools: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Gerrit and Gitea. The trade is that you run the stack. Teams that want the same job done as a managed service can compare options on our Sourcebot alternative page.
Sourcebot Pro vs CodeIndex for a team of 20
CodeIndex is a hosted semantic code search and codebase Q&A tool for GitHub repositories. You connect a repo, it builds the index, and your team asks questions in plain English and gets answers that cite the exact files and lines. There is no server, no database and no model key to manage. Here is how the full cost compares for 20 users:
| Team of 20 | Sourcebot Pro | CodeIndex Pro |
|---|---|---|
| License per year | $4,800 ($20 per user/month) | $1,788 ($149/month billed annually, $299 month to month) |
| Hosting | Your server, Postgres and Redis | Included |
| AI answers | Ask Sourcebot, your own LLM key and token bill | Included, with file citations |
| Code hosts | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, Gerrit, Gitea | GitHub only |
| Where code lives | Stays in your network | Indexed by our hosted service |
| Trial | 14 days on Pro | 14 days, card charged only when it ends |
Be honest about the fit. If your code may not leave your network, or half of it lives in GitLab or Azure DevOps, Sourcebot is the better choice and the hosting work is the price of that control. If everything is on GitHub and the team mostly wants to find code by what it does and get answers for new hires, a hosted tool removes the server and the token bill. Our source code search engine for private GitHub repos page walks through how CodeIndex indexes a company codebase.
How to decide in one afternoon
Write down three numbers: how many people need access, what your server will cost per month, and how many hours a month someone will spend on upkeep. Multiply the hours by a loaded engineering rate and add it to the license and infrastructure. For most GitHub teams of 5 to 20 people, that total lands well above a flat hosted plan. For larger teams on several code hosts with a platform group already running internal services, self-hosted Sourcebot often wins.
If search alone is the need and you want the enterprise end of the market, see what Sourcegraph pricing looks like at its $16,000 annual minimum. If you are comparing several code search tools side by side, our roundup of the best code search tool for private GitHub repos covers GitHub search, Copilot, Sourcebot and Sourcegraph in one table.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Sourcebot cost per user?
Sourcebot Pro costs $20 per user per month according to its pricing page, with a 14-day free trial and an annual billing option. Basic is free and Enterprise is priced by quote. Because Sourcebot is self-hosted, you also pay for the server it runs on and for the LLM provider behind Ask Sourcebot.
Does Sourcebot have a free plan?
Yes. Sourcebot Basic is free and self-hosted, with code search, regex and symbol search, Git history and blame, and community support. AI answers, code navigation, SSO and audit logs require Pro.
Does Ask Sourcebot cost extra?
Ask Sourcebot is included in Pro, but it calls an LLM provider you configure with your own API key, so the model usage is billed by that provider, not by Sourcebot. The amount depends on how many questions your team asks.
What server does Sourcebot need?
The official Helm chart recommends 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of memory for Sourcebot, 2 cores and 4 GiB for PostgreSQL and 1 core and 1.5 GiB for Redis, each with an 8 GiB volume to start. Larger codebases need more storage for the search index.
What is a hosted alternative to Sourcebot?
For private GitHub repos, CodeIndex is a hosted alternative with semantic search and plain-English answers that cite files, for a flat $49 a month for 5 users or $149 a month for 20 users billed annually. It does not support GitLab, Bitbucket or on-premises deployment, so keep Sourcebot if you need those.