Cody vs GrowthBook
AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph — code graph + enterprise codebase context
vs. Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
Pricing tiers
Cody
Cody Free
$0. 500 autocompletes + 20 chat messages/mo. Claude Sonnet + GPT-4o-mini.
Free
Cody Pro
$9/user/mo. Unlimited autocomplete, unlimited chat, premium LLMs (Claude Opus, GPT-5).
$9/mo
Enterprise Starter
$19/user/mo. Adds advanced context (code graph), SSO, centralized billing.
$19/mo
Enterprise
$59/user/mo. On-prem deploy option, full Sourcegraph platform, audit logs, SLA.
$59/mo
GrowthBook
Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on Cody vs oss on GrowthBook.
| Metric | Cody | GrowthBook |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Cody · 17 features
- Audit Logs — Enterprise compliance.
- Autocomplete — Inline code completion.
- Batch Changes (Enterprise) — Large-scale automated refactors.
- Chat — Conversational AI with @-context.
- Code Graph Context — Automatic dependency-aware context.
- Commands (Slash) — Pre-built prompts (/explain, /doc, /test).
- Custom Prompts — Shareable team-level prompt library.
- Inline Edit — Highlight code → edit via natural language.
- JetBrains Plugin — IntelliJ/PyCharm/WebStorm/etc.
- @ Mentions — Add files/symbols/URLs as context.
- Multi-LLM Selection — Pick Claude/GPT/Gemini per request.
- Neovim Plugin — Nvim integration.
- On-Prem Deploy (Enterprise) — Self-host full Sourcegraph + Cody.
- OpenCtx Extensions — Third-party context providers.
- Prompts Library — Team-wide reusable prompts.
- SSO (Enterprise) — SAML + OIDC.
- VS Code Extension — Primary IDE.
GrowthBook · 15 features
- Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
- Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
- Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
- Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
- Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
- Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
- Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
- Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
- Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
- Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
- Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
- SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
- Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
- Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
- Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Cody | GrowthBook |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | src CLI (context tool) | — |
| SDK | — | Edge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react |
| REST | Cody API (Enterprise) | GrowthBook REST API |
| OTHER | Cody for JetBrains, Cody for Neovim, Cody for VS Code, Sourcegraph Cloud Web | Webhooks |
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