CrewAI vs Cody
Role-playing multi-agent framework — agents that work together
vs. AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph — code graph + enterprise codebase context
Pricing tiers
CrewAI
OSS (MIT)
MIT-licensed Python framework. Free forever.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Managed CrewAI Enterprise — deploy + monitor Crews in the cloud. Custom pricing.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on CrewAI vs free on Cody.
| Metric | CrewAI | Cody |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
CrewAI · 11 features
- CrewAI Enterprise UI — Managed cloud for deploying + monitoring crews.
- Hierarchical Process — Manager agent delegates to workers.
- Human Input — human_input=True pauses for human review/approval.
- MCP Tool Support — Consume MCP servers as Agent tools.
- Memory — Short-term, long-term, entity memory per Crew/Agent.
- Observability Integrations — Langfuse, LangSmith, AgentOps, OpenLIT.
- Planning Feature — Optional planner agent that plans before task execution.
- Task Guardrails — Validate task output + retry with feedback.
- Testing — Test Crews deterministically with eval metrics.
- Tools — 70+ pre-built tools (search, scrape, file, vision, code exec).
- Training — Train agents from feedback loops.
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.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | CrewAI | Cody |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | CrewAI CLI | src CLI (context tool) |
| SDK | crewai (Python) | — |
| REST | CrewAI Enterprise | Cody API (Enterprise) |
| OTHER | — | Cody for JetBrains, Cody for Neovim, Cody for VS Code, Sourcegraph Cloud Web |
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