Redis vs Cody
The real-time data platform — in-memory DB + cache + vector + search
vs. AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph — code graph + enterprise codebase context
Pricing tiers
Redis
Free
30 MB. Single DB. Community support. AWS + GCP only.
Free
Redis OSS
BSD-licensed Redis (or source-available RSALv2 for newer). Self-host free.
$0 base (usage-based)
Essentials
From $5/mo. 250 MB to 100 GB. SAML SSO, RBAC, 99.99% uptime.
$5/mo
Pro
From $200/mo. Dedicated. Active-Active multi-region. Auto-tiering. 99.999% uptime.
$200/mo
Enterprise
Custom annual. SOC2, HIPAA, private deployment.
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 free on Redis vs free on Cody.
| Metric | Redis | Cody |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Redis · 21 features
- Active-Active (CRDT) — Multi-region live-write replication.
- Auto-Tiering (Flex) — RAM + SSD tiered storage.
- Bitmaps + Bitfields — Compact boolean storage.
- Geo — Geospatial queries on lat/lon.
- Hashes — Field-value maps per key.
- HyperLogLog — Probabilistic cardinality.
- Lists — Linked list — push/pop/range.
- Lua Scripting — Server-side Lua + Functions.
- Pub/Sub — Channel-based messaging.
- RedisBloom — Bloom + Cuckoo + Count-Min Sketch + TopK.
- Redis Cluster — Horizontal sharding.
- RediSearch — Full-text + vector search engine.
- RedisInsight — Official GUI for Redis.
- RedisJSON — Native JSON document support.
- RedisTimeSeries — Time-series data type.
- Replication — Primary-replica async replication.
- Sets — Unique element sets.
- Sorted Sets (ZSet) — Score-ranked sets for leaderboards.
- Streams — Append-only log (Kafka-like).
- Strings — Primitive + binary-safe key-value.
- Transactions (MULTI/EXEC) — Atomic command batches.
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 | Redis | Cody |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | redis-cli | src CLI (context tool) |
| SDK | go-redis, Jedis + Lettuce, node-redis, redis-py, redis-rs | — |
| REST | Redis Cloud API | Cody API (Enterprise) |
| OTHER | RedisInsight GUI, RESP protocol | Cody for JetBrains, Cody for Neovim, Cody for VS Code, Sourcegraph Cloud Web |
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