Cody

By Sourcegraph

How often 10 AI models recommend Cody, what they say about it, and who they recommend instead, on the 1 buying question where it came up.

Mention rate

61%of all answers on this question

Best standing

#8of 24 on Best AI coding assistants

Buying questions

1where any model named it

Never named it

1of 10 models

Which models recommend it

Share of each model's answers that named it, at any position · The black tick marks the panel average

1. Mistral Large 492%
2. Kimi K383%
3. Nemotron 3 Ultra83%
4. GPT-6 Luna75%
5. Gemini 4 Argon75%
6. DeepSeek V4 Pro75%
7. MiniMax M350%
8. Claude Haiku 5.542%
9. GLM-5.333%
10. Qwen 3.8 Flash0%

Never named it: Qwen 3.8 Flash

Tracked since October 25, 2026. Each time the panel answers these questions again, the change shows here.

What the models say

Each model's one-line reason for recommending it, from its first answer

Best AI coding assistants 8

• Claude Haiku 5.5Good at navigating very large codebases, though its appeal has narrowed recently.
• GPT-6 LunaRepository search and codebase context can make it valuable on large projects, though alternatives are stronger overall.
• Gemini 4 ArgonUnmatched context retrieval across massive enterprise repositories powered by Sourcegraph's code search.
• DeepSeek V4 ProExcels at codebase-wide search and understanding across repositories.
• Kimi K3Excellent codebase search and context for large repositories.
• MiniMax M3Sourcegraph-powered context retrieval makes it great for large codebases.
• Mistral Large 4Excels at large monorepo navigation and cross-repository code search.
• Nemotron 3 UltraExcels at large codebase navigation and understanding

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, Cody highlighted.

Best AI coding assistants

24 products named in 120 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

CursorGitHub CopilotWindsurfAmazon Q Developer

Contested

1. 5Tabnine88%
2. 6Claude Code66%
3. 7JetBrains AI Assistant64%
4. 8Cody61%
5. 9Replit48%

Mention rate by model and question

Share of each model's answers on the question that named it · Hover a cell for the count

Question	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4 Pro	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3 Ultra
Best AI coding assistants	42	75	75		75	33	83	50	92	83

Does the wording matter?

Share of answers that named it under each way of asking the question · Hover a cell for the exact wording

Question	List request	Buyer asking for advice	Search query	Worth paying for?
Best AI coding assistants	73	50	57	63

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

Cody vs CursorCody vs GitHub CopilotCody vs WindsurfCody vs Amazon Q DeveloperCody vs TabnineCody vs Claude Code

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