Agentic Index
Potpie AI vs Sourcegraph (2026)
Sourcegraph and Potpie both make enormous codebases legible to humans and agents. Sourcegraph is the enterprise incumbent: exhaustive code search, Batch Changes across hundreds of repositories, and a code graph feeding agents over MCP, with SOC 2 and ISO 27001. Potpie is the open source challenger, an ontology first knowledge graph with prebuilt debugging and review agents, young but distinctive.
| At a glance | Potpie AI | Sourcegraph |
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| Category | Coding agent | Coding agent |
| Entry price | Free and open source for self hosting under Apache 2.0. A managed cloud version offers a free trial. Paid team and enterprise pricing is not publicly itemized and is arranged with the company. | Cody Enterprise $59/user/mo (annual) · platform ~$16K/yr+ |
| Free / trial | The open source edition is free to self host under an Apache license. The managed cloud version offers a free trial, after which paid plans apply. Exact paid pricing is not publicly itemized. | Team cloud trial available |
| Pricing confidence | contact only | public partial |
| Feature | ||
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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. |
No / Not documented | 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | 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 |
Free and open source for self hosting under Apache 2.0. A managed cloud version offers a free trial. Paid team and enterprise pricing is not publicly itemized and is arranged with the company. | 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 |
The open source edition is free to self host, and users supply their own model provider keys, so inference cost is pay as you go to the provider. A managed cloud version offers a free trial. Team and enterprise pricing is arranged with the company and not publicly itemized. | 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 tierTrial
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Free tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Self-serve | Mixed |
Choose Potpie AI if
- You want the graph and agents open source under Apache, self hosted with your own model keys.
- Root cause analysis and blast radius detection on million line systems is the immediate job.
- Installing context skills into Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor upgrades tools you already run.
Choose Sourcegraph if
- Enterprise scale and certifications: SOC 2, ISO 27001, air gapped options, and a decade of hardening.
- Batch Changes rolling one fix across hundreds of repositories is the feature you keep needing.
- You want a proven vendor for Big Code rather than a pre seed startup.