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Sverklo vs Sourcegraph Cody

Sourcegraph Cody was the go-to code intelligence tool for years. In July 2025, Sourcegraph killed the free and Pro tiers, making Cody enterprise-only at $59/user/month. Sverklo is built for the individual developers Cody left behind.

Feature comparison

Sverklo Sourcegraph Cody
Price Free MIT licensed, forever $59/user/mo Enterprise only (since July 2025)
Individual access Yes, free for all developers Discontinued (free and Pro tiers shut down)
Architecture Local-first MCP server Cloud-hosted SaaS + IDE extension
Data privacy Code never leaves your machine Code indexed on Sourcegraph's cloud
Client support Any MCP client (Claude Code, Windsurf, Zed, Cursor) VS Code, JetBrains, Sourcegraph web UI
Code search BM25 + embeddings + graph centrality (single repo) Regex, structural, semantic (millions of files, multi-repo)
Dependency graph Symbol-level with PageRank scoring Cross-repo code navigation (SCIP-based)
Blast-radius analysis Shows downstream impact of any change Not available
PR review Risk-scored diffs with CI gate (--fail-on) Not available
Memory system Bi-temporal, git-pinned (memories tied to SHA) Not available
Scale Single repo, any size Millions of files across thousands of repos
Open source Yes (MIT) Proprietary (was partially open, now closed)
Install npm install (pure JS, no native bindings) Enterprise deployment + IDE extension

When to use each

Choose Sverklo when

  • You are an individual developer or on a small team
  • You lost access to Cody when the free tier was killed
  • Your code must stay on your machine (no cloud indexing)
  • You want blast-radius analysis and diff-aware PR review
  • You use Claude Code, Windsurf, Zed, or any MCP client
  • You need memory that persists across sessions and tracks git state
  • MIT license matters for your project

Choose Sourcegraph Cody when

  • You work at an enterprise that can pay $59/user/month
  • You search across millions of files in massive monorepos
  • You need multi-repo search across thousands of repositories
  • Enterprise compliance, SSO, and audit logs are required
  • You rely on Sourcegraph's 10+ years of code search expertise

What happened to Cody's free tier

In July 2025, Sourcegraph discontinued Cody Free and Cody Pro, moving entirely to an enterprise model at $59/user/month. Individual developers, open-source contributors, and small teams lost access to Cody's code search and AI-assisted coding features.

Sverklo takes the opposite approach. It is MIT licensed and free forever, with no cloud dependency and no tiered pricing. The trade-off: Sverklo works on a single repo at a time and does not match Sourcegraph's scale for searching across thousands of repositories. If you need that scale, Cody Enterprise is the right tool. For everything else, Sverklo delivers code intelligence without asking for a credit card.

Try Sverklo

MIT licensed. One command. Works with every MCP client.

$ npm install -g sverklo && sverklo init

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