Sourcegraph

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Sourcegraph
Company type Private
Industry Information technology
Founded2013
FounderQuinn Slack and Beyang Liu
ProductsCode Search, Amp, Cody (Legacy)
Website about.sourcegraph.com

Sourcegraph Inc. is a company developing code search and code intelligence tools that semantically index and analyze large codebases so that they can be searched across commercial, open-source, local, and cloud-based repositories. [1]

Contents

The company has three core products: Code Search, Amp, and Cody. Code Search was initially released in 2013 under the name Sourcegraph, but was rebranded to Code Search when the company unveiled Cody in 2023. Both products support all major programming languages. [2] The platform serves over 800,000 developers and has indexed more than 54 billion lines of code. [3]

History

Sourcegraph Inc. was founded by Stanford graduates Quinn Slack and Beyang Liu to drive the development of a code search and code intelligence tool, formerly called Sourcegraph. It was first released in 2013 [4] but was rebranded to Code Search in 2023. It was partly inspired by Liu's experience using Google Code Search while he was a Google intern, [5] It was designed to "tackle the big code problem" by enabling developers to manage large codebases that span multiple repositories, programming languages, file formats, and projects.

Code Search was initially self-hosted by each customer on their own infrastructure. Early customers included Uber, Dropbox, and Lyft. [6] In 2016, Code Search was criticized [7] for being provided with a Fair Source License with the developers explaining [8] [9] [5] that "all of Sourcegraph's source code is publicly available and hackable" [10] and was intended to "help open sourcers strike a balance between getting paid and preserving their values". [11] In 2018, Code Search was licensed under the Apache License 2.0, [12] [13] and Sourcegraph OSS has since been released under the Apache License 2.0. The commercial version, Code Search Enterprise, has been released under its own license. [14] In 2023, Code Search was criticized [15] for dropping the Apache license for most of its code, leaving it public but only available under its Enterprise license. [16] In 2024, the main repository was made completely private. [17]

In 2019, Code Search was integrated into the GitLab codebase, giving GitLab users access to a browser-based developer platform. [18] In 2021, a browser-based portal became available, allowing users to browse open-source projects and personal private code for free. In 2022, Sourcegraph Cloud, a commercial single-tenant cloud solution for organizations with more than 100 developers, was launched. [19]

Sourcegraph has raised a total of $223 million in financing to date. [20] Its most recent $125 million Series D investment in 2021 valued the company at $2.625 billion, a 300% growth from its previous valuation in 2020. [3]

DateFunding TypeMoney Raised (USD)No. of InvestorsLead Investor
July 2021Series D round125,000,000 [3] 4 Andreessen Horowitz
December 2020Series C round50,000,0001 Sequoia Capital
July 2020Series B round5,000,000 [21] 1Felicis Ventures
March 2020Series B round23,000,0003 Craft Ventures
October 2017Series A round20,000,000 [22] 3Goldcrest Capital, Redpoint

In 2023 Sourcegraph Inc. unveiled their new product Cody, and rebranded Sourcegraph to Code Search. In 2025, Sourcegraph announced the discontinuation of Cody Free, Pro, and Enterprise Starter plans, effective July 23, 2025, and launched Amp, a new AI coding agent. [23]

Products

The company has three major products: Code Search, Amp, and Cody.

Code Search tool is used to search and summarize code. [1] [24] It supports over 30 programming languages and integrates with GitHub and GitLab for code hosting, Codecov for code coverage, and Jira Software for project management. [25] Sourcegraph's Code Search uses a variant of Google's PageRank algorithm to rank results by relevance. [26] [ non-primary source needed ]

Sourcegraph Amp

Launched in 2025, Amp can generate code, generate documentation, write tests, and perform refactoring operations on projects. The tool operates on a credit-based pricing model and is available through web interfaces, command-line tools, and IDE extensions. [27] [ non-primary source needed ]

Sourcegraph Cody

Cody is an AI coding assistant that can help users write, fix, and maintain code by providing context-aware assistance. Cody is available for Microsoft Visual Studio Code and most JetBrains IDEs. As of July 2025, Cody Free, Pro, and Enterprise Starter plans have been discontinued, with only Cody Enterprise remaining available for existing enterprise customers. [23] [ non-primary source needed ]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Hoyt, Ben (2020-08-17). "Searching code with Sourcegraph". LWN.net. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  2. ↑ Slack, Quinn (2019-02-08). "Announcing Sourcegraph 3.0". Sourcegraph official website. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  3. 1 2 3 Miller, Ron (2021-07-13). "Sourcegraph raises $125M Series D on $2.6B valuation for universal code search tool". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  4. ↑ Salter, Jim (2020-10-01). "Sourcegraph: Devs are managing 100x more code now than they did in 2010". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2022-11-18.
  5. 1 2 Adam Stacoviak (2016-08-16). "Sourcegraph the 'Google for Code'". Changelog (Podcast). Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  6. ↑ Slack, Quinn (2022-09-27). "Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated instances for enterprises". Sourcegraph Blog. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  7. ↑ Asay, Matt (2016-04-01). "Fair Source licensing is the worst thing to happen to open source-definitely maybe". TechRepublic. Archived from the original on 2021-11-07. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  8. ↑ Eghbal, Nadia (2016). Roads and bridges. The Unseen labor behind our digital infrastructure (PDF) (Report). pp. 94–95. Retrieved 2022-12-14.
  9. ↑ "Fair Source License". Fair Source License official website. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  10. ↑ "The Sourcegraph developer release: A better way to discover and understand code". Sourcegraph Blog. 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  11. ↑ Finley, Klint (2016-03-29). "One Startup's Heretical Plan to Turn Open Source Code Into Cash". Wired. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  12. ↑ Schmidt, Julia (2018-10-02). "Sourcegraph pulls back the curtain, becomes open source project". DevClass. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  13. ↑ Steve Krouse (2019-10-24). "Basic Developer Human Rights: Quinn Slack". Future of Coding (Podcast). Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  14. ↑ "Licensing". Sourcegraph Handbook. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  15. ↑ "Seriously, don't sign a CLA". drewdevault.com. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  16. ↑ "relicense all paths other than MIT licensed code, client/cody*, jetbr… · sourcegraph/sourcegraph@3cd931e". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-07-05.
  17. ↑ "Sourcegraph makes core repository private, co-founder complains open source means 'extra work and risk'". DevClass. 2024-08-21. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  18. ↑ "Native code intelligence is coming to GitLab". GitLab. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  19. ↑ Slack, Quinn (2022-08-27). "Sourcegraph Cloud: secure, scalable, dedicated instances for enterprises". Sourcegraph. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  20. ↑ "Sourcegraph - 2025 Funding Rounds & List of Investors". Tracxn. 2025-06-16. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  21. ↑ "Sourcegraph Raises Additional $5M in Series B Funding". FINSMES. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  22. ↑ "Sourcegraph Raises $20M in Series A Funding". FINSMES. 2017-10-06. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  23. 1 2 "Changes to Cody Free, Pro, and Enterprise Starter plans". Sourcegraph Blog. 2025-06-25. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
  24. ↑ Liu, Beyang (2020-01-15). "Sourcegraph: Universal code search and intelligence". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
  25. ↑ "Q&A: Sourcegraph's Universal Code Search Tool". IEEE Spectrum. 2020-04-03. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  26. ↑ Yegge, Steve (2022-11-08). "Rethinking search results ranking on Sourcegraph.com". Sourcegraph. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
  27. ↑ "Owner's Manual - Amp". Amp Documentation. Retrieved 2025-09-05.
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