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Cody vs Teradata

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Cody

Developer Tools

AI coding assistant powered by code search

From
Free
Free plan
Yes
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Teradata

Databases

Long-established enterprise MPP data warehouse, rebranded in 2026 as the Autonomous Knowledge Platform, sold for cloud, on-premises and hybrid.

From
On request
Free plan
No
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The short version

  • Cody is free; Teradata prices on request.
  • Where Cody falls short: sourcegraph now publishes a single Enterprise plan starting at $16K, with no free or individual Pro tier listed on the pricing page.
  • Prices and features on this page were last checked on 13 November 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Cody and Teradata actually diverge.

Attributes where Cody and Teradata differ
AttributeCodyTeradata
Starting priceFreeOn request
Pricing modelFreemiumQuote
Free tierYesNo
CategoryDeveloper ToolsDatabases

Identical on both: platforms (Web).

Not yet recorded: founded for Teradata.

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 Teradata does not also cover.

Only in Teradata

  • Massively parallel architecture
  • Workload management
  • Mature cost-based optimiser
  • Cloud, on-premises and hybrid
  • Bulk load utilities
  • BTEQ scripting
  • In-database analytics
  • Enterprise Vector Store

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Cody

  • Code completion and intelligent autocomplete in IDEsnot Teradata
  • Developer chat with codebase context awarenessnot Teradata
  • Automated debugging and error identificationnot Teradata
  • Customizable prompts for workflow automationnot Teradata

Teradata

  • A large existing Teradata estate where the practical question is which workloads to migrate first rather than whether to adoptnot Cody
  • High-concurrency mixed workloads where hundreds of analysts and scheduled jobs contend and predictable prioritisation matters more than peak single-query speednot Cody
  • Regulated reporting where the same query must produce the same answer for years and the audit trail of the existing implementation has valuenot Cody
  • Hybrid deployments where regulatory or data-residency rules keep a portion of the warehouse on-premises while the rest moves to cloudnot 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

Teradata

  • Licensing is negotiated rather than published, so there is no way to compare total cost against a consumption-priced warehouse without entering a sales cycle, and the comparison is only ever as good as the workload profile you gave them
  • The SQL dialect and the loading utilities are Teradata-specific, so every stored procedure, macro and BTEQ script written against the platform is migration debt that grows with each release you ship
  • Primary index choice determines data distribution, and a poorly chosen index concentrates rows on a few processing units, which surfaces as one slow query rather than an error and needs a specialist to diagnose
  • The skills market is contracting, so DBA and workload-management expertise is expensive to hire, hard to replace when someone retires, and increasingly hard to buy from consultancies whose own bench has moved to cloud warehouses
  • The 2026 renaming of Vantage, VantageCloud, ClearScape and QueryGrid split documentation, runbooks and vendor material across two naming systems, so searching for an error or a configuration now returns results for a product that is described under a different name

Pricing, plan by plan

Cody

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the Cody review.

Teradata

On request

No published plan breakdown. See the Teradata review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Cody if

  • You want to start without paying.
Cody review

Choose Teradata if

  • You need massively parallel architecture.
  • You also want workload management.
Teradata review

Questions people ask

Is Cody or Teradata better?
Neither clearly leads. Cody starts at Free and Teradata at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Cody or Teradata?
Cody has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at Free for Cody and On request for Teradata.
Does Cody or Teradata run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Cody for free?
Yes. Cody has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Teradata 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 Teradata is typically brought in for.
What can Cody do that Teradata cannot?
Teradata covers Massively parallel architecture, Workload management, Mature cost-based optimiser, Cloud, on-premises and hybrid.

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.

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Teradata: Is Teradata only on-premises?

No. It is sold for cloud, on-premises and hybrid deployment, and the cloud offering is now branded Teradata Cloud. A large part of the installed base is still on-premises or hybrid.

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.

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Teradata: How does it compare to Snowflake or BigQuery?

On raw elasticity and cost transparency the cloud warehouses win. On mixed-workload concurrency management against a large existing query estate Teradata is still hard to replace, which is why migrations off it take years rather than quarters.

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.

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Teradata: Why do organisations stay on it?

Because the cost of leaving is the estate, not the data. Thousands of procedures, scripts and extracts written in a proprietary dialect have to be rewritten and revalidated, and in regulated reporting that revalidation is the expensive part.

Teradata: What changed in the 2026 rebrand?

Vantage became the Autonomous Knowledge Platform, VantageCloud became Teradata Cloud, ClearScape Analytics became AI Studio and QueryGrid became Fabric. The underlying products are continuous with what came before.

Teradata: Can it handle AI and vector workloads?

It has added an Enterprise Vector Store and in-database analytics branded AI Studio. Whether that is preferable to moving the data into a purpose-built vector store depends on how much of your data already lives in the warehouse.

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