Cody vs Trae
Pricing
Cody: Enterprise only, from $16,000 a year
Trae: Free tier, Pro from $20/mo
Description
Cody: Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant, sold only with Sourcegraph Enterprise since the Free and Pro plans ended in July 2025
Trae: AI IDE from ByteDance with a limited free plan and paid plans from $20/mo, but read the privacy fine print
Pros
- Uses Sourcegraph's code search to answer questions across large codebases
- Works in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio (experimental), the Sourcegraph web app and a CLI
- Sourcegraph says it does not use customer data to train models
- Free plan includes 5,000 autocompletions a month and Auto mode
- SOLO mode for multi-step agent tasks, plus cloud tasks in TraeWork on paid plans
- VS Code-based so the interface is familiar
Cons
- No plan for individuals: Cody Free and Cody Pro ended on 23 July 2025
- Sourcegraph Enterprise requires a yearly contract starting at $16,000
- Built for engineering organizations, not solo founders
- Made by ByteDance: security researchers reported in 2025 that it kept sending telemetry after users opted out
- Chats and code snippets may be used for model training unless you turn on Privacy Mode while logged in
- The free plan is limited to Auto mode: choosing models needs Pro at $20/mo
Details
Cody’s strength is Sourcegraph’s code graph. While most AI tools see only the files you have open, Cody can draw on an index of your whole repository, so it can answer questions like “where is the authentication logic?” even when those files are closed.
Sourcegraph stopped new Cody Free and Pro sign-ups on 25 June 2025 and ended both plans on 23 July 2025. Cody is now available only on Sourcegraph Enterprise, which starts at a $16,000 yearly contract, and Sourcegraph pointed individual users to Amp, its separate coding agent. For a solo founder, GitHub Copilot is the closest low-cost editor assistant, Cursor gives whole-codebase context in a full editor, and Claude Code works across a repository from the terminal.
Trae is an AI IDE from ByteDance. The editor is VS Code-based, and SOLO mode can plan and carry out multi-step coding tasks. The free plan gives you Auto mode, limited usage and 5,000 autocompletions a month. Pro costs $20 a month with $20 of model usage included and unlimited autocomplete, Pro+ costs $60, and Ultra costs $200 with early access to new models.
The elephant in the room is ByteDance. In 2025 security researchers reported that Trae kept sending usage data to ByteDance servers even after users opted out of telemetry. Trae’s documentation says your codebase files are not used for training, but your chats, related code snippets and AI output may be used for analytics and model training unless you enable Privacy Mode, which only applies while you are logged in. If you are working on anything sensitive (client projects, proprietary code, anything with user data), this is a real concern. Cursor and Devin Desktop cost the same as Trae’s Pro plan.
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