Agentic Index
Moderne vs Sourcegraph (2026)
Moderne and Sourcegraph both attack large codebase problems, with different weapons: Moderne runs an open core model where OpenRewrite recipes are free for single repository use in Java, Kotlin, and Groovy, while the platform for multi repo scale, seven extended languages, agent tooling, and the air gapped DX product is licensed through sales with no published rates, whereas Sourcegraph sells code intelligence, search, and its Cody assistant at 59 dollars per user a month enterprise annual, with platform deals from about sixteen thousand dollars a year (its Amp agent spun off separately). Choose Moderne for deterministic mass refactoring and migrations, Sourcegraph for code understanding and AI assisted development across a large estate.
| At a glance | Moderne | Sourcegraph |
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| Category | Coding agent | Coding agent |
| Entry price | Open source OpenRewrite is free for single repository use; the Moderne platform, extended language coverage, and DX are licensed through sales with no published rates | Cody Enterprise $59/user/mo (annual) · platform ~$16K/yr+ |
| Free / trial | OpenRewrite is free and open source, and Moderne runs a free public service for tens of thousands of open source projects | Team cloud trial available |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | public partial |
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| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Partial | Partial |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | No / Not documented |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Partial | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit | No / Not documented |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial | Partial |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Open source OpenRewrite is free for single repository use; the Moderne platform, extended language coverage, and DX are licensed through sales with no published rates | Cody Enterprise $59/user/mo (annual) · platform ~$16K/yr+ |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Contact only | Public — partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
commercial licenses on top of a free open source engine, with extended language recipe execution explicitly requiring a Moderne license | seats |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tier
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Sales call | Mixed |
Choose Moderne if
- Framework migrations and security remediations across hundreds of repos are the job.
- Deterministic recipe based transformation beats generative edits for your risk profile.
- Air gapped deployment is a hard requirement in your environment.
Choose Sourcegraph if
- Code search and navigation across a massive estate is the daily need.
- An AI assistant grounded in your own codebase context serves every engineer.
- Published per user pricing simplifies the enterprise purchase.