Developer Tools · head to head
Cody vs Qovery

Qovery
Cloud
Deployment platform that provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your own cloud account
- From
- On request
- Free plan
- No
The short version
- Only Cody has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Cody sourcegraph now publishes a single Enterprise plan starting at $16K, with no free or individual Pro tier listed on the pricing page; Qovery no plan publishes a price, deployment minute overage rates are not disclosed, and there is a 14 day trial rather than a free tier, so you cannot budget or compare against alternatives without going through sales.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Cody and Qovery actually diverge.
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Cody
Nothing recorded that Qovery does not also cover.
Only in Qovery
- Bring your own cloud
- Preview environments
- Cluster lifecycle
- Terraform provider
- MCP server
- Policy as code
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Cody
- Code completion and intelligent autocomplete in IDEsnot Qovery
- Developer chat with codebase context awarenessnot Qovery
- Automated debugging and error identificationnot Qovery
- Customizable prompts for workflow automationnot Qovery
Qovery
- A regulated business that must keep application data inside its own AWS account but has nobody to build a deployment platformnot Cody
- Giving twenty engineers preview environments per pull request without writing and maintaining Terraform and Helm by handnot Cody
- Standardising deployment across AWS and GCP when acquisitions have left the organisation on two cloudsnot Cody
- Replacing a managed platform when data residency rules put every hosted option out of reachnot Cody
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Cody
- Sourcegraph now publishes a single Enterprise plan starting at $16K, with no free or individual Pro tier listed on the pricing page
- sourcegraph.com/cody redirects to the documentation rather than a Cody product or pricing page
- AI features are metered as credits included per user, and exceeding the allocation requires buying a higher volume bucket
- Volume credit buckets are sold as an add-on rather than included
- A customer success manager and premium support are optional paid extras on top of the Enterprise plan
- Standard support is 24x5 rather than 24x7, with round-the-clock coverage sold as an upgrade
- The published $16K figure is a starting price that scales with team size, so the actual cost is quoted rather than listed
Qovery
- No plan publishes a price, deployment minute overage rates are not disclosed, and there is a 14 day trial rather than a free tier, so you cannot budget or compare against alternatives without going through sales.
- The GPL-3.0 engine and console do not constitute a self-hostable product, because the control plane and API are closed and the self-hosted option is gated behind Enterprise, so the open licence gives you no exit if the company changes direction.
- Qovery provisions managed Kubernetes into your account, which means the cloud bill sits on top of the licence and Qovery initiates control plane and ingress controller upgrades on infrastructure your team is accountable for.
- The company repositioned to agentic infrastructure in June 2026 and now ships a deployment platform, a browser development portal and autonomous coding agents concurrently, so a buyer of the deployment product is not at the centre of the roadmap.
- Team and Business are capped at two and three connected clusters with fixed 4 vCPU CI runners and no single sign-on on Team, which pushes teams of moderate size onto quoted Enterprise pricing earlier than the plan names imply.
Pricing, plan by plan
Cody
FreeNo published plan breakdown. See the Cody review.
Qovery
On request- Team$undefined/year
- Billed on usage with no published rate card
- 10 users, up to 100 environments, 2 connected clusters
- 5,000 deployment minutes and 7 day audit logs
- Business$undefined/year
- Billed on usage with no published rate card
- 20 users, up to 250 environments, 3 connected clusters
- 10,000 deployment minutes and 30 day audit logs
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- Custom users, environments and clusters
- Self-hosted or air-gapped control plane
- On-premises and bring-your-own-Kubernetes
Which should you pick?
Choose Qovery if
- You need bring your own cloud.
- You work on Web, CLI, REST API, Kubernetes.
- You also want preview environments.
Questions people ask
- Is Cody or Qovery better?
- Neither clearly leads. Cody starts at Free and Qovery at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Cody or Qovery?
- Cody has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Cody and On request for Qovery.
- Does Cody or Qovery run on more platforms?
- Cody runs on Web. Qovery runs on Web, CLI, REST API, Kubernetes.
- Can I use Cody for free?
- Yes. Cody has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Qovery starts at On request.
- What is Cody best used for?
- Cody is most often used for code completion and intelligent autocomplete in ides, developer chat with codebase context awareness, automated debugging and error identification, customizable prompts for workflow automation. Of those, code completion and intelligent autocomplete in ides and developer chat with codebase context awareness are not what Qovery is typically brought in for.
- What can Cody do that Qovery cannot?
- Qovery covers Bring your own cloud, Preview environments, Cluster lifecycle, Terraform provider.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Cody: Is Cody free?
Cody offers a free tier for individual developers via VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and the web app. Unlimited free usage is available for solo developers.
SourceQovery: Does Qovery run my applications on its own servers?
No. It provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, so compute and data stay with your cloud provider and that bill is entirely separate from the Qovery licence.
Cody: What does Cody Enterprise cost?
Cody Enterprise pricing is custom and requires contacting Sourcegraph sales. It is available for Sourcegraph Enterprise customers and must be quoted based on your deployment and usage needs.
SourceQovery: Can I self-host Qovery?
Only on Enterprise. The deployment engine and console are GPL-3.0, but the control plane is closed source and the self-hosted and air-gapped deployments are commercial Enterprise features.
Cody: What LLMs does Cody use?
Cody uses the latest large language models for code completions, chat, and debugging. It leverages Sourcegraph's advanced Search API to pull codebase context from local and remote repositories.
SourceQovery: What does it cost?
Qovery does not publish a rate card. Team and Business are billed on usage and quoted through sales, and Enterprise is fully custom. There is a 14 day trial with no card required.
Qovery: What survives if I stop paying?
The Kubernetes cluster and the workloads keep running in your cloud account, but you lose the console, the deployment pipeline, preview environments and every process built on top of them.
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