Feature Parity Reference for Cody Clients
This document compares Cody's features and capabilities across different clients and platforms like VS Code, JetBrains, and Sourcegraph.com (Web UI).
Chat
Feature | VS Code | JetBrains | Web | Visual Studio | CLI |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chat with Cody | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Chat history | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Clear chat history | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Edit sent messages | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Show context files | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
@-file | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
@-symbol | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Ollama support (experimental) | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
LLM Selection | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Context Selection | |||||
Single-repo context | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Multi-repo context | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ (public code only) | ❌ | ❌ |
Local context | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
OpenCtx context providers (experimental) | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Prompts and Commands | |||||
Access to prompts and Prompt library | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
Promoted Prompts | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
Edit code | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Generate unit test | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Ask Cody to Fix | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Code Autocomplete
Feature | VS Code | JetBrains |
---|---|---|
Single and multi-line autocompletion | ✅ | ✅ |
Cycle through multiple completion suggestions | ✅ | ✅ |
Accept suggestions word-by-word | ✅ | ❌ |
Ollama support (experimental) | ✅ | ❌ |
Few exceptions that apply to Cody Pro and Cody Enterprise users: