Sourcegraph Cody vs Tabby
as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12
Sourcegraph Cody and Tabby land in the same overall spot, each scoring 5 out of 100, though they get there differently. Cody shows up in 7 of 89 answers, with its best showing on "best alternatives to GitHub Copilot" (2 of 4 answers). Tabby appears slightly more often, in 8 of 89 answers, and dominates one niche: it's named in all 4 of 4 answers for "best AI coding assistant I can run locally for privacy." Head-to-head, Cody comes out ahead on 5 questions, Tabby on 2, with 18 ties. Neither is ever named for broad questions like "best AI code editor right now."
Head to head
| metric | Sourcegraph Cody | Tabby |
|---|---|---|
| score | 5 | 5 |
| questions won | 6 | 4 |
By assistant
Sourcegraph Cody
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 4 | 0% of answers | |
| Claude | 5 | 10% of answers | #7.5 |
| Gemini | 7 | 9% of answers | #12.0 |
| Perplexity | 4 | 0% of answers |
Tabby
| assistant | score | named in, this week | usual spot, this week |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 6 | 5% of answers | #4.0 |
| Claude | 5 | 10% of answers | #8.5 |
| Gemini | 5 | 18% of answers | #7.5 |
| Perplexity | 2 | 5% of answers | #4.0 |
Where they differ
Only Sourcegraph Cody gets named for
- Which AI coding assistant is best for large codebases?
- What are the best AI coding agents that can work across a whole codebase?
- What's the best AI coding assistant for VS Code?
- What are the best alternatives to Cursor?
Only Tabby gets named for
- What's the best AI coding assistant I can run locally for privacy?
- What's the best open-source AI coding assistant?
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