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According to DevTools Review's hands-on testing across 11 AI coding tools, if you find an "Amazon Q Developer vs Cody" comparison in 2026 that quotes Amazon Q at $19/user/mo and Cody as free, both numbers describe products you can no longer buy that way — and until this week, ours did too.
What actually changed on each side
Amazon Q Developer stopped taking new Free and Pro signups on 15 May 2026. Existing subscribers keep access, but support for the product ends 30 April 2027. AWS's named successor is Kiro, which got its own autonomous multi-agent orchestrator ("Kiro Crew") on 4 August 2026 — that's where the individual-developer investment is going now, not into Q Developer.
Cody stopped being purchasable as an individual product over a year earlier. Sourcegraph discontinued the Free and Pro tiers on 23 July 2025. Cody now ships only inside Sourcegraph Enterprise, reported around $59/user/mo but not published as a fixed number — treat any specific figure as unverified until a sales quote confirms it. Sourcegraph steers individual developers to a separate product, Amp, instead.
So a comparison built to help someone choose between "a $19/mo AWS assistant" and "a free Sourcegraph tool" is actually comparing a discontinued signup path against a product that no longer exists in individually-purchasable form. Neither side of the "which one should I buy" question holds up.
What we actually verified before writing this
- Amazon Q's closure date (15 May 2026) and end-of-support date (30 April 2027) against AWS's own announcement.
- Cody's tier removal (23 July 2025) and Sourcegraph's own current pricing page, which no longer lists an individual tier at all.
- Our own site's data layer (
affiliates.ts), which already carried both corrections — the comparison page's prose just hadn't caught up.
The actual honest comparison, if you need one
If your workflow is AWS-centric and you already have Q Developer access from before the closure, keep using it until the 2027 support cutoff, and evaluate Kiro before you need to migrate. If you're evaluating Cody for an individual project, stop — it isn't sold that way anymore; look at Amp instead. If you need code-intelligence at the team level, get an actual Sourcegraph Enterprise quote rather than repeating a $59/seat figure nobody at Sourcegraph has confirmed in writing.
Why this is worth flagging publicly
Neither of these facts is new or obscure — AWS and Sourcegraph both announced their changes on their own blogs, months apart. What's notable is how long a stale side-by-side comparison can sit online treating a discontinued signup flow and a retired free tier as live options, because nobody re-checks a comparison page after it ranks. We re-verify pricing against the vendor's own page and record when we did it, which is the only reason this got caught before more of these accumulate site-wide.
Full comparison and the corrected pricing table: https://devtoolsreview.com/comparisons/amazon-q-vs-cody-2026/
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