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Our Copilot vs Cody Comparison Told People to 'Choose Cody' for a Product That Stopped Existing 14 Months Ago

Disclosure: GitHub runs a Copilot partner program for building extensions, not a publisher affiliate program — we're not paid on Copilot clicks. Cody has no individual tier left to link to.

According to DevTools Review's hands-on testing across 11 AI coding tools, we published a GitHub Copilot vs Sourcegraph Cody comparison in March 2026 and never touched it again. Rechecking it this week to syndicate it, we found the page still actively recommending a product that stopped existing on 23 July 2025.

What the page still says

The pricing section lists "Cody Free" with "generous" limits and "Cody Pro ($9/month)" with unlimited usage. The verdict on that section: "Winner: Cody for individuals; Copilot for straightforward team pricing. Cody Pro at $9/month is a dollar cheaper than Copilot Pro." The "Choose Cody If You..." section tells individual developers and small teams to pick it for its context engine at a lower price than Copilot.

None of that has been true for over a year.

What's actually true

Sourcegraph discontinued Cody Free and Cody Pro. New signups stopped 25 June 2025, and access for existing individual users ended 23 July 2025 — confirmed on Sourcegraph's own blog. Individual developers were pointed at Amp, Sourcegraph's separate follow-on product, instead. Cody now exists only as an Enterprise plan, starting at roughly $16K/year minimum, sold to organizations already running Sourcegraph — not to a developer with a credit card.

So the entire "which is cheaper for an individual" framing in our own comparison describes a choice nobody can actually make anymore. There is no $9/month Cody to be a dollar cheaper than anything.

The second thing we found while fixing the first

Our Copilot pricing table on the same page was also behind: Free / Pro $10/mo / Business $19/user/mo / Enterprise $39/user/mo. That's missing two tiers that have been live for months — Pro+ at $39/mo and Max at $100/mo — both on GitHub's own current plans page. So the comparison had gone stale on both sides of the table, not just the more dramatic one.

Why this is worth flagging, not just fixing quietly

This is what content rot looks like on a "which tool should I use" page: not a typo, but a live recommendation steering readers toward a purchase path that doesn't exist, sitting on a page search engines and AI answer boxes still cite. If you're comparing Copilot to Cody today, the real comparison is Copilot vs Amp, or Copilot vs "does your org already pay Sourcegraph six figures" — not Copilot vs a $9/month plan.

We're correcting the source page now. Until it's live, treat "Cody Pro $9/month" anywhere — on our site or anyone else's — as a fossil, not a current price.

Full comparison, correction in progress: https://devtoolsreview.com/comparisons/copilot-vs-cody-2026/

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