Pieces vs Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph uniquely has 2 features.
| Pieces | Sourcegraph | |
|---|---|---|
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2021 | 2013 |
| HQ | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA | San Francisco, USA |
| AI model | LTM-2 (Proprietary Long-Term Memory Engine) + multiple cloud/local LLM providers | Multiple (Claude, GPT-4, and others via MCP) |
| User base | 150,000+ | 200+ enterprise engineering teams |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux, Chrome Extension, VS Code, JetBrains, Obsidian, Neovim, Teams, Slack | Web, CLI, IDE extensions, MCP Server |
| Languages | 25+ | All major coding languages (25+) |
| Pricing | ||
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Free trial | No - Free plan is permanent | — |
| Starting price | Free Plan | $16K/yr (Enterprise) |
| Enterprise | — | Starting at $16,000/yr |
| All plans | Pieces Pro$18.99/mo | EnterpriseNot publicly stated |
| Positioning | ||
| Best for | Individual developers and engineering teams who want persistent, OS-level AI memory across all their tools | Enterprise engineering teams managing large, complex, multi-repository codebases |
| Differentiator | OS-level long-term memory engine (LTM-2) that passively captures everything a developer works on across all apps, giving LLMs persistent personal context without manual effort | Provides complete, SCIP-powered codebase indexing across thousands of repositories to give AI agents and humans exhaustive, deterministic context for accurate large-scale code changes — beyond what any single-repo or partial-context tool can offer |
| Competitors | GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codeium, Continue.dev, Mem.ai, Rewind.ai | GitHub Copilot, Cursor, JetBrains AI, Tabnine, Codeium |
| Features | ||
| Cli Support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code Completion | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code Generation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code Review | ✓ | ✓ |
| Codebase Indexing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Debugging | ✓ | ✓ |
| Git Integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| IDE Plugins | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi Language Support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Refactoring | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security Scanning | — | ✓ |
| Self Hosted Option | ✓ | ✓ |
| Team Features | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | ||
| API Access | ✓ | ✓ |
| Github Integration | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gitlab Integration | — | ✓ |
| Jetbrains Plugin | ✓ | ✓ |
| Key Integrations | VS Code, JetBrains, Chrome, Neovim, Obsidian, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, Goose | GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Slack, PagerDuty, Email, Jira, Webhook, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Amp, MCP Server |
| Vscode Extension | ✓ | ✓ |