CodyvsTraeCode
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Cody
Sourcegraph · IDE extension
#175MCP
Panel
4.85 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.5
- Usefulness
- 4.5
- Cost
- 4.0
- Longevity
- 5.0
“Free and Pro ended in July 2025, so the cheapest way to try Cody is now a $16K annual contract.”
TraeCode
ByteDance · IDE extension
#263
Panel
4.41 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.0
- Usefulness
- 3.7
- Cost
- 6.2
- Longevity
- 3.8
“It was renamed from MarsCode and the website is still marscode.com, so the rebrand reached everything except the address bar.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Cody | TraeCode |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | IDE extension | IDE extension |
| Runs | local, cloud | cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | No |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek | undisclosed |
| Bring your own model | Yes | No |
| Local models | No | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | seat | free |
| Starts at | n/a | $0/mo |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | No |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | No |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| GitHub stars | 3,804 | n/a |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Cody | TraeCode | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 4.8 | 5.3 | TraeCode — Pick this if you want free whole-function completion and nothing more; pick Tabnine if you want the same job done by a vendor that publishes what it does with your code. |
| El Crítico | 4.3 | 4.8 | TraeCode — The capability ceiling is a product decision: this is documented as the lightweight companion to the vendor's standalone editor, so the missing features are withheld rather than absent. |
| El Profesor | 5.3 | 4.3 | Cody — Cody's retrieval is principled, code search over an indexed graph rather than embedding similarity, and there is no edit loop attached to it worth evaluating. |
| La Inversora | 5.3 | 5.3 | no preference |
| La Jefa | 5.8 | 4.5 | Cody — If Sourcegraph Enterprise is already on the invoice, Cody is a free feature of it; if not, a $16K minimum for an assistant is not a purchase I would make. |
| El Hacker | 3.3 | 2.5 | Cody — The public repo is archived, the plans that let a person use it are gone, and bring-your-own-key plus local models sit behind a $16K contract; the snapshot is the only part I can read. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.