Augment Code vs Sourcegraph Cody
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14
Augment Code and Sourcegraph Cody land close together, with overall scores of 6 and 7 out of 100 and each named in 7 of 70 answers. Sourcegraph Cody edges ahead on ChatGPT (tie at 8), Claude (4 vs 3), and Perplexity (8 vs 7), while both score 9 on Gemini. Head-to-head, they're tied in 18 questions, with Augment Code named more often in 1 and Sourcegraph Cody in 1. Both show up most for whole-codebase work, named in 3 of 4 answers for AI coding agents across a whole codebase, and in all 3 answers for best large-codebase assistant. Neither is ever named for reliability, local privacy use, or test writing.
Head to head
| metric | Augment Code | Sourcegraph Cody |
|---|---|---|
| score | 6 | 7 |
| questions won | 3 | 3 |
By assistant
Augment Code
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 8 | 10% of answers | #3.0 |
| Claude | 3 | 5% of answers | #5.0 |
| Gemini | 9 | 20% of answers | #10.0 |
| Perplexity | 7 | 10% of answers | #4.5 |
Sourcegraph Cody
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 8 | 10% of answers | #3.0 |
| Claude | 4 | 5% of answers | #2.0 |
| Gemini | 9 | 20% of answers | #8.5 |
| Perplexity | 8 | 10% of answers | #3.0 |
Where they differ
Only Augment Code gets named for
- What are the top AI coding assistants in 2026?
Only Sourcegraph Cody gets named for
- What are the best AI coding assistants?
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