Lemon Squeezy vs Cody
Merchant of record for digital products and SaaS
vs. AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph — code graph + enterprise codebase context
Pricing tiers
Lemon Squeezy
Pay-as-you-go
No monthly fees. 5% + 50¢ per transaction. Includes tax handling.
$0 base (usage-based)
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 payg on Lemon Squeezy vs free on Cody.
| Metric | Lemon Squeezy | Cody |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Lemon Squeezy · 12 features
- Abandoned Cart Recovery — Email retry campaigns (+5% fee on recovered).
- Affiliate Program — Built-in affiliate/referral program with payouts.
- Custom Checkout Domain — Checkout at checkout.yourbrand.com.
- Customer Portal — Self-service subscription + invoice management UI.
- Discounts / Coupons — Percentage / fixed / trial discount codes.
- Global Tax (included) — Automatic VAT/GST/sales tax calc + remittance. LS files taxes on your behalf.
- Hosted Checkout — Hosted + embeddable checkout. Customize color + logo.
- License Keys — Generate + validate license keys for software sales.
- One-off Sales — Digital products with license keys, file delivery.
- Reports & Analytics — Revenue, MRR, churn, LTV.
- Subscriptions — Recurring billing with trials, proration, discounts.
- Webhooks — Standard resource events (order_created, subscription_created/updated/cancelled,…
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 | Lemon Squeezy | Cody |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | src CLI (context tool) |
| SDK | @lemonsqueezy/lemonsqueezy.js | — |
| REST | Lemon Squeezy REST API | Cody API (Enterprise) |
| OTHER | Webhooks | Cody for JetBrains, Cody for Neovim, Cody for VS Code, Sourcegraph Cloud Web |
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