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Amazon Q Developer vs Cody

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Free plan
Amazon Q Developer has one; Cody prices on request
Best fit
Amazon Q Developer: Teams building on AWS who want console, CLI and IDE help that understands their account · Cody: Large orgs already licensed for Sourcegraph code search
Platforms
Amazon Q Developer: VS Code extension, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android · Cody: Web, VS Code extension
Trust score
About even — Amazon Q Developer 94, Cody 91
Status
Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

Amazon Q DeveloperAWS's coding and operations assistant for IDEs, the terminal and the console, with its IDE plugins now on an end-of-support clock.CodyEnterprise coding assistant grounded in your whole repository

Side by side

FactAmazon Q DeveloperCody
CategoryAI Coding AssistantsAI Coding Assistants
Pricing modelFreemiumContact
Starts at$19/seat/mo—
Trust score94 / 10091 / 100
PlatformsVS Code extension, Web, macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, AndroidWeb, VS Code extension
CompanyAmazon Web Services, Inc.Sourcegraph, Inc.
Launched20242023
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Amazon Q Developer

If your code runs on AWS, Q Developer is the assistant that knows the services, the console and your account, and the free tier is generous enough to use daily. But AWS has announced the end of support for its IDE plugins on 30 April 2027 and is steering developers to Kiro, so adopting Q Developer in the editor today means planning a migration within eighteen months. Use it for the CLI, console and the Java and .NET transformation jobs, which have no equivalent elsewhere, and start new editor workflows on whatever AWS says replaces it.

Pros

  • Free tier with 50 agentic requests and 1,000 lines of transformation a month, no card
  • Transformation agents for Java upgrades and .NET-to-Linux porting that general assistants lack
  • Present in IDEs, CLI, console, mobile console app, Slack, Teams, GitHub and GitLab
  • Pro at $19 per user adds admin dashboards, pooled transformation lines and IP indemnity

Cons

  • End-of-support notice for the IDE plugins dated 30 April 2027, with Kiro named as the successor
  • Agentic request limits on Free and Pro are stated loosely rather than as a number on Pro
  • Value drops sharply outside AWS-centric codebases
  • No public API found for the assistant itself

Cody

Only worth evaluating if you already run Sourcegraph and your codebase is big enough that repository-wide retrieval actually changes answers. Solo developers and small teams cannot buy it at all any more.

Pros

  • Retrieval is backed by a real code search index rather than ad-hoc embeddings over an open folder
  • Underlying model is configurable instead of locked to one vendor
  • Enterprise controls: self-hosting, admin policy and audit

Cons

  • No free or self-serve tier since July 2025
  • Priced as part of a Sourcegraph contract, which the vendor lists as starting around $16K
  • Sourcegraph's product momentum moved to Amp, which split off as a separate company in December 2025
  • sourcegraph.com/cody now redirects to documentation instead of a product page

Which one fits

Choose Amazon Q Developer if you need

  • Teams building on AWS who want console, CLI and IDE help that understands their account
  • Java 8 and 11 estates and Windows .NET workloads that need bulk upgrade or porting
  • Enterprises that need IAM Identity Center controls and IP indemnity on an assistant

Choose Cody if you need

  • Large orgs already licensed for Sourcegraph code search
  • Monorepos where cross-repo context beats file-level autocomplete
  • Security-constrained teams needing self-hosted or VPC deployment

Amazon Q Developer vs Cody: the questions people ask

Is Amazon Q Developer cheaper than Cody?

Amazon Q Developer starts at $19/seat/mo; Cody prices on request, so a quote is the only way to compare.

Does Amazon Q Developer or Cody have a free tier?

Amazon Q Developer has a free tier; Cody prices on request.

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