Last updated: January 12, 2026
An honest security analysis of Sourcegraph Cody for developers considering it for their projects.
Sourcegraph Cody is enterprise-focused with self-hosted options for maximum security. Unlike Copilot, Cody understands your entire codebase context through Sourcegraph's code intelligence. This requires code indexing, but self-hosting keeps everything on-premises.
Cody's killer feature is the self-hosted option - you can run Sourcegraph and even the AI on your own infrastructure for complete control. This makes it the most security-flexible AI coding assistant for enterprises with strict data requirements. The trade-off is complexity vs. simpler cloud solutions.
Understanding Sourcegraph Cody security in the context of broader industry trends and research.
of Lovable applications (170 out of 1,645) had exposed user data in the CVE-2025-48757 incident
Source: CVE-2025-48757 security advisory
average cost of a data breach in 2023
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023
developers using vibe coding platforms like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit
Source: Combined platform statistics 2024-2025
“There's a new kind of coding I call 'vibe coding', where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.”
“It's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.”
Yes. Sourcegraph offers self-hosted deployment where both the code intelligence platform and AI processing can run on your infrastructure. You can even use local LLMs for complete data isolation. This is the most secure configuration for sensitive codebases.
Cody uses Sourcegraph's code intelligence to understand your codebase, which requires indexing. You control which repositories are indexed and can exclude sensitive paths using contextFilters. Self-hosted keeps all indexing on-premises.
Cody is codebase-aware through Sourcegraph's code graph, understanding your entire repo context. Copilot primarily uses the current file. Cody offers self-hosted deployment; Copilot is cloud-only. Cody lets you choose LLM providers; Copilot uses OpenAI.
Cody supports Claude (Anthropic), GPT-4 (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), and local models through Ollama. On self-hosted enterprise, you can run entirely local LLMs for zero cloud exposure. This flexibility lets you balance capability vs. security requirements.
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