GitHub Copilot vs Cody

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

	GitHub Copilot	Cody
Tagline	AI pair programmer that autocompletes code and chats inside your editor	Sourcegraph's AI assistant with whole-codebase context for big teams
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing	Free tier with limited completions; Pro from ~$10/user/mo; Business ~$19/user/mo; Enterprise ~$39/user/mo	Free tier; Pro from ~$9/user/mo; Enterprise custom pricing
Free tier
Best for	Developers and teams already living in GitHub and mainstream IDEs who want trusted inline completions plus chat.	Enterprises with large, complex codebases that need an assistant grounded in whole-repository context.
Not for	Teams wanting a fully agentic, repo-rewriting IDE rather than an assistant layered onto their existing editor.	Solo developers or small projects that don't need heavyweight codebase-wide search and context.
Use cases	Inline code completion Code explanation and chat Writing unit tests Refactoring functions Generating boilerplate	Codebase-wide Q&A Context-aware completion Large monorepo navigation Refactoring across files Code search with AI
	Visit GitHub Copilot	Visit Cody

Choose it if: Developers and teams already living in GitHub and mainstream IDEs who want trusted inline completions plus chat.

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