How much does Unblocked cost in 2026?
Unblocked costs $29 per user per month on annual billing or $35 per user per month billed monthly for its Platform plan. Enterprise pricing is custom and quoted by sales. Every new account gets a 21-day trial with Enterprise features and no credit card, according to the Unblocked pricing page as checked in September 2026.
Some review sites still list Unblocked as starting at $19 a month. That figure is out of date. The current page shows $29 as the lowest per-user price, and only on an annual contract.
Unblocked plans at a glance
| Plan | Price | What it adds |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | $29 per user per month annually, $35 per user monthly | Questions about your code and its history, code reviews, PR summaries, CI Failure Agent, MCP for Claude, Cursor and Copilot, API access, incognito mode, unlimited data sources |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Everything in Platform plus SSO, Data Shield permission enforcement, on-premises deployment, GitHub Enterprise, Jira Data Center and Bitbucket Data Center, a dedicated success manager and priority support |
| Trial | 21 days, no card | All Enterprise features during the trial |
Unblocked's billing docs add one detail worth knowing before you sign: every license on either plan contributes to a shared team credit pool. The docs do not publish how many credits a license adds or what happens when the pool runs out, so ask sales how heavy users are handled before you commit a large team.
What Unblocked costs for a 5, 10 and 20 person team
Because Unblocked charges per user, the bill grows with every engineer, PM and support lead you add. Here is the Platform plan at the published rates, next to a flat-price option.
| Team size | Unblocked Platform, annual | Unblocked Platform, monthly | CodeIndex |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 users | $145/month ($1,740/year) | $175/month | $49/month annual, $99 monthly (Starter) |
| 10 users | $290/month ($3,480/year) | $350/month | $149/month annual, $299 monthly (Pro, up to 20 users) |
| 20 users | $580/month ($6,960/year) | $700/month | $149/month annual, $299 monthly (Pro) |
| 40 users | $1,160/month ($13,920/year) | $1,400/month | $499/month annual, $999 monthly (Enterprise, unlimited users) |
The gap is widest for teams of 11 to 20 people, where per-seat pricing is doubling while a flat plan stays put. It narrows if you only license the developers who ask questions every day.
Is Unblocked worth the price?
Unblocked is worth it if your answers live in more places than the code. It pulls context from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket plus Slack, Jira, Confluence and documentation tools, so it can tell you why a decision was made, not just where the code is. It also bundles AI code review and a CI failure agent. If you would otherwise pay for a separate review bot, that changes the math in its favor.
It is harder to justify when the main job is finding and understanding code in GitHub repos. In that case you pay per seat for Slack and Jira connectors your team may never lean on. A 12 person team on annual billing spends $4,176 a year on Unblocked Platform, against $3,588 a year for CodeIndex Pro, which covers up to 20 users.
Unblocked alternatives compared on price
Most teams shopping this category end up comparing a handful of tools. Each one fits a different buyer.
| Tool | Starting price | Pricing model | Best fit |
|---|---|---|---|
| CodeIndex | $99/month for 5 users | Flat team plans, hosted | GitHub teams that want semantic code search and codebase Q&A |
| Unblocked | $29/user/month annual | Per user, shared credit pool | Teams whose context is spread across Slack, Jira and Confluence |
| Sourcebot | Free Basic, Pro $20/user/month | Per user, self-hosted, bring your own LLM | Teams that must keep code on their own servers |
| Devin (with DeepWiki) | Teams $40 per seat, $80/month minimum | Per seat plus usage | Teams that also want an autonomous coding agent |
| Sourcegraph | $16K per year minimum | Enterprise contract | Large orgs searching thousands of repos |
| Swimm | Custom quote | Based on lines of code | Enterprises modernizing legacy and mainframe code |
If self-hosting is the deciding factor, our Sourcebot alternative page covers the tradeoff of running it yourself. For large org-wide search, see the Sourcegraph pricing breakdown.
What is the best Unblocked alternative for a small team?
For a 5 to 20 person team on GitHub, CodeIndex is the closest match at a lower total price: $99 a month covers 5 users and $299 a month covers 20, with AI queries included. Our Unblocked alternative page puts the two side by side, feature by feature. You get semantic search across your repos and plain-English answers that cite the exact files and line ranges they came from.
The honest limits: CodeIndex reads code, not Slack threads or Jira tickets, and it works with GitHub only. If your team's real pain is "nobody remembers why we built it this way" and the answer sits in a two-year-old Slack thread, Unblocked's extra connectors earn their price. If the pain is "where does this happen in the code and what breaks if I change it", a code-focused tool does the job for less.
Who uses tools like Unblocked, and when the cost pays back
The payback usually comes from three places. New hires reach their first real pull request faster because they can ask the codebase instead of queuing for a senior engineer; our developer onboarding tool page walks through that workflow. Senior engineers get fewer interruptions. And on-call engineers find the code behind an alert faster, which matters most at 2 a.m. when you are working next to your incident management software that pages the right engineer and need to know which service owns a failing job.
If one senior engineer at a fully loaded $100 an hour saves two hours a month from fewer "where is this?" questions, a $99 plan has already paid for itself. The math is the same for Unblocked, only the break-even point moves with seat count.
How to decide in one afternoon
If you are still deciding which kind of tool you need at all, our comparison of chat with your codebase tools prices seven options for 5, 10 and 20 users.
Run both trials against the same repo. Unblocked gives 21 days without a card, and CodeIndex gives 14 on the plan you choose, with the card charged only when the trial ends. Pick five questions your last new hire actually asked, such as how auth works, where a webhook is verified, or what touches the invoices table. Ask both tools and check which answers point to the right files. Then price the plan for the number of people who will really use it, not the whole org chart.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Unblocked cost?
Unblocked's Platform plan costs $29 per user per month when billed annually, or $35 per user per month billed monthly. Enterprise, which adds SSO, Data Shield permissions and on-premises deployment, is priced by sales. Prices are from getunblocked.com/pricing as checked in September 2026.
Does Unblocked have a free plan?
No. Unblocked offers a 21-day free trial with all Enterprise features and no credit card, but there is no permanent free tier on its pricing page. After the trial you move to Platform or Enterprise.
Is Unblocked cheaper than Sourcegraph?
For small teams, yes. Sourcegraph now sells Enterprise only, starting at a $16K annual minimum, while Unblocked Platform for 10 users on annual billing is $3,480 a year. At several hundred users the comparison depends on the quotes you get from each vendor.
What is a cheaper alternative to Unblocked?
For GitHub teams, CodeIndex costs $99 a month for 5 users or $299 a month for 20 users, with AI queries included. Sourcebot Pro is $20 per user if you self-host and bring your own LLM. Both cost less than Unblocked for most teams under 20 people.
Does Unblocked charge per user or per seat?
Per user. Unblocked bills per license, and its docs say every license on either plan adds to a shared team credit pool. Check with sales how credits work for heavy users before rolling it out to a large team.