Amazon Q vs Cody: Neither Is Sold to Individuals in 2026

Amazon Q Developer closed new Free and Pro signups on 15 May 2026; Sourcegraph removed Cody's Free and Pro tiers on 23 July 2025. Any "Amazon Q vs Cody" price comparison still circulating in 2026 is pricing two products you can no longer buy that way.

The correction comes from DevTools Review, which runs such a comparison page itself and says its own prose carried the stale figures "until this week." Its post opens with a disclosure of "no confirmed affiliate or commission relationship with AWS or Sourcegraph for the tools named here," and describes the finding as coming out of "hands-on testing across 11 AI coding tools."

Amazon Q Developer: running, already sunsetting

Existing subscribers keep access, but the report says support for the product ends 30 April 2027 — a date it says it checked against AWS's own announcement. AWS's named successor is Kiro, which the report says gained an autonomous multi-agent orchestrator called "Kiro Crew" on 4 August 2026. That release is the evidence DevTools Review reads as AWS routing its individual-developer investment into Kiro "not into Q Developer."

Cody: enterprise-only, and the seat price is unconfirmed

Cody now ships only inside Sourcegraph Enterprise. The report puts it at "around $59/user/mo but not published as a fixed number," and tells readers directly to "treat any specific figure as unverified until a sales quote confirms it." Sourcegraph steers individual developers to a separate product, Amp, instead.

Treat that $59 as what it is: a reported figure with an explicit caveat attached by the people reporting it, not a published price. The report says Sourcegraph's current pricing page "no longer lists an individual tier at all."

What this means if you are choosing today

• Already have Q Developer access — the report's advice is to keep using it until the 2027 support cutoff, and evaluate Kiro before you are forced to migrate.
• Evaluating Cody as an individual — stop. It is not sold that way. Amp is where Sourcegraph now points individual developers.
• Buying code intelligence for a team — get an actual Sourcegraph Enterprise quote "rather than repeating a $59/seat figure nobody at Sourcegraph has confirmed in writing."

The wider problem: comparison pages that outlive their facts

Neither change was secret. Both vendors announced on their own blogs, months apart, with Cody's tier removal coming first. What the report flags is duration: a side-by-side can sit online "treating a discontinued signup flow and a retired free tier as live options, because nobody re-checks a comparison page after it ranks."

Analysis, not attributable to the source: vendor pricing is the fastest-decaying content on any dev-tools site, and ranking well actively removes the incentive to touch it. The practice worth copying here is the mechanical one the report describes — re-verifying against the vendor's own page and recording the date it was checked, so a stale claim has a timestamp to fail against.

What to watch

• Whether AWS ships a documented Q Developer to Kiro migration path before the 30 April 2027 cutoff, or moves the date.
• Whether Sourcegraph publishes a fixed Enterprise seat price — until it does, every quoted figure stays unverified.
• Whether Amp picks up an individual tier that fills the gap Cody's Free and Pro removal left.