> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Continue vs Sourcegraph Cody for Australians 2026: Open Freedom or Enterprise Power? - URL: https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/continue-vs-sourcegraph-cody-australia-2026/ - Published: 2026-06-24T23:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-09T06:40:17.000Z - Description: Two open and extensible AI coding assistants pulling in opposite directions. Continue is free, model-agnostic and frozen; Cody is powerful, enterprise-only and US$16,000 to start. Continue scores 14/25, Cody 13/25 — here's which suits which Australian developer. - Author: Adam - Tags: Coding & Development, Continue, Sourcegraph Cody, #comparison Head-to-head verdict **14**/25ContinueWinner[**13**/25Sourcegraph Cody](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-sourcegraph-cody-australia-2026/) **Our pick: Continue.** The verdict below says who should buy the other. *Pricing figures updated 6 September 2026: USD prices are converted at the current rate (1 USD ≈ 1.40 AUD, verified 5 September 2026) and shown ex-GST, replacing the retired 1.55 + GST basis. A GST-registered Australian business that supplies its ABN is not charged GST on an imported digital service; other buyers should allow \~10% on top (*[*Methodology*](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/methodology/)*).* > **Winner: Continue** for most Australian developers and small teams — it's free, open-source, lets you bring any model (including a local one that keeps your code on Australian soil), and costs you nothing but your own API tokens. **Pick Sourcegraph Cody** only if you're a large Australian company with a sprawling multi-repository codebase and the budget for an enterprise contract that starts at US$16,000 (\~A$22,470 ex-GST). Continue scores 14/25, Cody 13/25 — both land at three stars, and neither clears our Australian Fit gate, so neither is a category Top Pick. > > *Last reviewed: 25 June 2026 by Adam.* If you want an AI coding assistant that's open or extensible rather than a closed box, these are the two names that come up — and they could hardly be more different in how they reach you. Continue is the free, open-source, bring-your-own-model extension that earned 3.4 million installs. Sourcegraph Cody is the codebase-aware enterprise tool that reads context across your whole organisation. One asks nothing of your wallet and everything of your setup skills; the other asks for a purchase order and a sales call. The right answer depends almost entirely on the size of your team and the size of your codebase. ## At a glance | | Continue | Sourcegraph Cody | | -------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | | **Our score** | 14/25 ⭐⭐⭐ (AU Fit 3/5) | 13/25 ⭐⭐⭐ (AU Fit 2/5) | | **Entry price (AUD est.)** | Free (open-source) | \~A$22,470/yr (US$16,000, Enterprise floor) | | **Free plan** | Yes — full extension, BYO model | No — Free and Pro discontinued mid-2025 | | **Who it's for** | Solo developers, small teams, tinkerers | Large enterprises with multi-repo codebases | | **Model choice** | Any — Claude, GPT, Gemini, local via Ollama | Enterprise admin picks; line-up not named publicly | | **Standout feature** | Model freedom + real offline/local mode | Multi-repository, codebase-wide context | | **Editors** | VS Code, JetBrains, CLI | VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio (experimental), web | | **Maintenance** | Repo read-only since Cursor buyout (Apr 2026) | Actively sold, enterprise-supported | | **Data residency** | Self-host a local model = code stays in AU | No confirmed AU residency; self-host offered | | **Billing** | None to vendor (you pay model providers, USD) | USD only, sold via sales; GST unconfirmed | | **Top Pick eligible?** | No (AU Fit 3/5 — Australian Fit gate) | No (AU Fit 2/5 — Australian Fit gate) | ## What both tools actually do Both plug into your editor and do the now-standard coding-assistant jobs: chat about your code, autocomplete as you type, rewrite a selected block from a plain-English instruction, and run multi-file agent tasks. Both support VS Code and JetBrains, the two editors most Australian developers actually use. From there they diverge sharply — on openness, on context, and on who they'll sell to. **Continue** is the open-source on-ramp. Licensed under Apache 2.0, it runs as a VS Code or JetBrains extension (and a CLI) and lets you point it at whatever model you like — Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, or a model running entirely on your own machine through Ollama. You bring the key or the local model; Continue is the interface. It covers four modes — Chat, Autocomplete, Edit and Agent — and its defining trait is freedom: no subscription, no lock-in, and the option to keep everything offline. The shadow over it is that Cursor acquired Continue in April 2026, and the main GitHub repository is now read-only and no longer actively maintained. **Sourcegraph Cody** is the enterprise heavyweight. It sits on top of Sourcegraph's code-search platform, so instead of only seeing the file in front of you, it pulls relevant functions, types and documentation from across your whole codebase — including multiple separate repositories at once. That cross-repo context is its genuine edge. But Sourcegraph discontinued the Cody Free and Cody Pro plans in mid-2025 (new signups closed 25 June 2025, existing free and pro accounts terminated 23 July 2025), folding Cody into an enterprise-only platform. Individual developers now get pointed at a separate product, Amp. In short: Continue gives any developer freedom for nothing but the model bill; Cody gives large teams codebase-wide intelligence for enterprise money. Your team size decides it. ## Pricing in Australia Neither tool bills in Australian dollars, and the two sit at opposite ends of the price spectrum. **Continue** is free. The open-source extension gives you the full Chat, Edit, Autocomplete and Agent experience at no cost to Continue itself — your only real bill is whatever you pay Anthropic, OpenAI or Google for tokens, billed in USD with GST handling depending on each provider. Run a local model through Ollama and even that cost drops to effectively zero. Continue also ran a paid "Continue Hub" for teams, but since the Cursor acquisition the pricing page no longer publishes Hub tiers — it redirects to the acquisition notice — so we won't quote a seat price we can't verify on a live vendor page. The part most people use costs nothing. **Cody** is the opposite story: you can't find out what it costs without talking to sales. Cody is sold only inside Sourcegraph Enterprise, and the public pricing page lists a single starting figure — "Starting at US$16,000" (\~A$22,470 ex-GST), an annual number that includes AI-feature credits and scales with team size. A per-seat figure of around US$59/user/month (\~A$83/mo ex-GST) circulates across third-party reviews, but it does not appear on any Sourcegraph-owned page, so treat it as unconfirmed. GST treatment on a US-dollar enterprise contract is itself unconfirmed and will depend on how Sourcegraph invoices an Australian entity. The honest read: there is no contest on entry cost. Continue is free; Cody starts at a five-figure annual commitment you have to phone for. For a Melbourne dev shop of three, that alone settles it. The only place Cody's price makes sense is a large team whose codebase is genuinely big enough that cross-repo context pays for itself. ## Where Continue wins - **It's free and open-source.** Apache 2.0, no subscription for the core product, and you can read, fork or self-host the code. You only ever pay model providers. - **Model freedom.** Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a local model via Ollama — swap per task. No other mainstream assistant gives you this much latitude, and Cody won't even name its model line-up publicly. - **Real offline mode.** Pair it with a local model and your code never touches a third-party server — it stays on your own hardware, on Australian soil. That's a genuine data-residency answer, not a marketing line, and it's worth a lot to a Sydney firm with client-confidentiality concerns. - **A real on-ramp for small teams.** Solo developers, two-person startups and curious individuals can all start today for nothing. Cody slammed that door shut in 2025. - **Mature and widely used.** 3.4 million-plus VS Code installs plus a JetBrains plugin mean it's battle-tested, not a weekend project. ## Where Sourcegraph Cody wins - **Multi-repository context.** Cody pulls relevant code from across many repos at once. In a large enterprise monorepo this is a real, measurable advantage over tools — Continue included — that mostly work from the files in front of them. - **It's actively supported.** This is the flip side of Continue's biggest weakness. Cody is sold and maintained by an established vendor with enterprise-tier support, where Continue's main repo is now frozen and unmaintained after the Cursor buyout. - **Admin control over context.** Context filters let admins exclude sensitive repositories from the AI entirely — a sensible guardrail for regulated Australian work. - **No training on your code.** Sourcegraph states it doesn't use your data to train models — a stated guarantee for Enterprise customers that matters for any AU business handling client code. - **Deployment flexibility.** Self-hosted deployment is offered alongside managed cloud, which could satisfy a sovereignty requirement — though how far the self-hosted option goes (and whether a fully air-gapped install is supported) isn't spelled out publicly, so confirm with sales. ## Which to pick — decision framework - **You're a solo developer or a small team** → **Continue**. It's free, it works today, and there's simply no on-ramp into Cody at your size. - **You're a large company with a sprawling, multi-repo codebase** → **Cody**. Its cross-repository context is the one thing Continue can't match, and at scale it can justify the enterprise price. - **You need code to stay in Australia** → **Continue**, paired with a local model through Ollama. Cody offers self-hosting but confirms no Australian data residency on its primary pages. - **You need a supported tool that will still be patched in two years** → **Cody**. Continue's repo is read-only and unmaintained, so you'd be self-maintaining. - **You want to choose your own AI model** → **Continue**. Cody picks the model for you and won't even publish the line-up. - **You're not a developer** → neither. Both are tools for people comfortable with config files, API keys or sales contracts. Look at GitHub Copilot for an easier on-ramp. ## The verdict **Winner: Continue, for the developer or small team this publication serves.** It's free, it's open, it lets you run any model — including a local one that keeps your code on Australian soil — and it earned its 3.4 million installs honestly. The warning light is real: Cursor bought it in April 2026, the main repo is now read-only, and the original team has stopped maintaining it. For a hobbyist or a developer happy to fork and self-maintain, that's a manageable risk against an unbeatable price. For a business that needs something supported and around in two years, it's a reason to pause. **Sourcegraph Cody is the better tool only in one specific situation** — a large Australian company with a tangled multi-repository codebase, where the cross-repo context is a genuine edge and the US$16,000 floor is a rounding error against headcount. Everywhere else, the enterprise-only pivot, the opaque US-dollar pricing and the absent Australian data-residency story make it the wrong shop. Continue takes it 14/25 to 13/25, but the scores understate how cleanly the two split by buyer: free and open for the many, enterprise and powerful for the few. Both land at three stars, and under our Australian Fit gate neither — at 3/5 and 2/5 — can be named the category Top Pick. This category still lacks a local champion. *This comparison is general information, not professional advice. If you're handling regulated, legal or financial code, confirm data-handling and compliance requirements for your circumstances before committing.* Update history - **21 Sep 2026** — **The stated conversion basis was the retired rule.** It described our AUD figures as converted at \~1.40 **plus a 10% GST gross-up**, which our GST rule withdrew on 5 September: a GST-registered Australian business that supplies its ABN is not charged GST on an imported digital service, so adding 10% asserts a cost most of our readers do not carry. **The figures themselves were already ex-GST and none moved** — the 6 September re-basing corrected the numbers in this file and left the sentence describing them behind, which is the gap sentry 18 exists to close. The basis now reads USD→AUD 1.4045 (ECB reference rate, 18 September 2026), ex-GST, with the GST position stated in words once. No vendor price moved and no score changed. `reviewed:` untouched per our dating rule. - **21 Sep 2026** — **Two AUD figures carried a 10% GST gross-up, and one of them was not explainable at any basis.** Cody's Enterprise floor read **\~A$25,280 inc GST** against US$16,000 — a ratio of 1.58, which is not 1.4045, not 1.4045 plus GST (A$24,720) and not the retired 1.55 (A$24,800). It is now **\~A$22,470 ex-GST** at USD→AUD 1.4045 (ECB reference rate, 18 September 2026). The third-party per-seat figure read **\~A$91/mo inc GST** for US$59 and is now **\~A$83 ex-GST**, matching the Sourcegraph Cody review, which already printed A$83\. Our GST rule retired the gross-up on our conversions. **Neither USD figure moved**, and both keep the qualifications they had: the US$16,000 is Sourcegraph's own published floor, the US$59 is a third-party number that appears on no Sourcegraph-owned page. No score changed. Superseded figures kept visible per our price-history rule. ## Frequently asked questions ### Are Continue and Sourcegraph Cody available in Australia? Yes — both work from Australia. Continue's free, open-source extension is global and indifferent to where you are. Cody is available only as part of Sourcegraph's enterprise platform; its free and solo plans were terminated on 23 July 2025, so there's no on-ramp for freelancers or small AU teams. ### Which is cheaper, Continue or Cody? Continue, by a wide margin. Its core extension is free and open-source — you only pay model providers (in USD) for tokens, or nothing at all with a local model. Cody is sold inside Sourcegraph Enterprise starting at US$16,000 (\~A$22,470 ex-GST) annually, with no published per-seat price you can sign up for online. ### Can I keep my code in Australia with either tool? Continue is the clear answer here: pair it with a local model through Ollama and your code never leaves your machine, on Australian soil. Cody offers self-hosted deployment and states it doesn't train on your code, but no primary source confirms Australian-hosted data — get any commitment in writing before signing. ### Is Continue still safe to adopt after the Cursor buyout? Cautiously. Cursor acquired Continue in April 2026 and the main repository is now read-only and unmaintained. It's fine for a developer happy to self-maintain, but riskier for a business that needs supported software in two years. Cody, by contrast, is actively sold and supported. ### Which is better for Australians? Continue edges it at 14/25 (AU Fit 3/5) against Cody's 13/25 (AU Fit 2/5), mostly on price, model freedom and the genuine offline option. But under our Australian Fit gate, neither clears 4/5 on Australian Fit, so neither can be the category Top Pick. Pick Continue if you're a small team; pick Cody only if you're a large enterprise with a multi-repo codebase. ## Read next - Full reviews: [Continue](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-continue-australia-2026/) (14/25) and [Sourcegraph Cody](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-sourcegraph-cody-australia-2026/) (13/25) - Category guide: [Best Coding & Development AI tools in Australia 2026](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/best-ai-coding-tools-australia-2026/) - How we score: [Methodology](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/methodology/) ## Sources This comparison draws on The AI Directory Australia's underlying reviews of [Continue](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-continue-australia-2026/) (14/25, AU Fit 3/5) and [Sourcegraph Cody](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/review-sourcegraph-cody-australia-2026/) (13/25, AU Fit 2/5), each scored against our five-criteria framework and verified against the vendors' own pages on 20 June 2026\. Continue's free/open-source status and the Cursor acquisition (April 2026, repo now read-only) are carried from that verified review; Cody's US$16,000 Enterprise floor is confirmed on Sourcegraph's own pricing page, while the \~US$59/user/month per-seat figure is third-party-sourced and unconfirmed. Star ratings and Top Pick eligibility follow our [Australian Fit gate](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/methodology/). USD-to-AUD estimates use USD→AUD 1.4045 (ECB reference rate, 18 September 2026) and are shown ex-GST: a GST-registered Australian business that supplies its ABN is not charged GST on an imported digital service, and an unregistered buyer should allow \~10% on top; neither vendor documents Australian GST. Wayback Machine snapshots queued. --- *The AI Directory Australia is an independent editorial publication. Read our* [*Methodology*](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/methodology/) *and* [*Affiliate Disclosure*](https://www.theaidirectory.com.au/affiliate-disclosure/)*.* *Synthesised from The AI Directory's verified Continue and Sourcegraph Cody reviews (20 June 2026). Continue's paid-tier pricing and Cody's per-seat figure remain unconfirmed — confirm live pricing before purchase.*