Amazon Q Developer vs Cody

A side-by-side comparison of Amazon Q Developer and Cody — pricing, free tiers, and who each tool is genuinely best for.

	Amazon Q Developer	Cody
Tagline	AWS's AI coding assistant for building, transforming, and operating on AWS	Sourcegraph's AI assistant with whole-codebase context for big teams
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing	Free tier; Pro from ~$19/user/mo	Free tier; Pro from ~$9/user/mo; Enterprise custom pricing
Free tier
Best for	Teams building on AWS who want an assistant that understands their cloud services and can automate code transformations.	Enterprises with large, complex codebases that need an assistant grounded in whole-repository context.
Not for	Developers outside the AWS ecosystem who want a vendor-neutral, frontier-model-first experience.	Solo developers or small projects that don't need heavyweight codebase-wide search and context.
Use cases	AWS-aware code completion Java version upgrades Code transformation Infrastructure troubleshooting Agentic feature development	Codebase-wide Q&A Context-aware completion Large monorepo navigation Refactoring across files Code search with AI
	Visit Amazon Q Developer	Visit Cody

Choose it if: Teams building on AWS who want an assistant that understands their cloud services and can automate code transformations.

Choose it if: Enterprises with large, complex codebases that need an assistant grounded in whole-repository context.