Sourcegraph Enterprise vs. Sourcegraph OSS
Sourcegraph offers two versions of its product: Sourcegraph Open Source (Sourcegraph OSS) and Sourcegraph Enterprise.
Sourcegraph Enterprise is Sourcegraph’s primary offering and includes all code intelligence platform features, like:
- Code Search
- Code navigation
- Batch Changes
- Code Insights
See the detailed feature comparison for a list of all features.
Sourcegraph Enterprise is the best solution for enterprises who want to use Sourcegraph with their organization’s code. Sourcegraph Enterprise is available via our paid plans. Teams of up to 10 developers can use a limited version of Sourcegraph Enterprise for free.
Sourcegraph OSS only includes universal code search functionality and does not include any code intelligence platform or enterprise features. Sourcegraph OSS does not include:
- Code navigation
- Batch Changes
- Code Insights
- Code monitoring
- Notebooks
- SSO
- Browser/IDE extensions
- And more
Sourcegraph OSS is built as a single container which limits scalability.
Check out our handbook for additional details on Sourcegraph OSS.
Getting started
Sourcegraph Enterprise can be run in a variety of environments, from cloud to self-hosted to your local machine. For most customers, we recommend Sourcegraph Cloud, managed entirely by Sourcegraph. Visit the get started section of the docs for details on every deployment option.
Developers can use Sourcegraph OSS without agreeing to any enterprise licensing terms by building their own server image. If they do so, no code from our enterprise-licensed features will be included in their Sourcegraph deployment.
In practice, Sourcegraph OSS involves:
- Removing the enterprise directories from the repository
- Building your own docker image (you can’t just use ours)
Detailed feature comparison
| License | Sourcegraph Open Source (Sourcegraph OSS) | Sourcegraph Enterprise | ||
| Tier | NA | Free | Business | Enterprise |
| Price | Free | Free for up to 10 users | $99 per active user/month | Custom pricing |
| Code intelligence platform | ||||
| Code Search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code navigation (go to definition/find references) | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Batch Changes | ✗ | 10 changesets | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code Insights | ✗ | 2 insights | ✓ | ✓ |
| Notebooks | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code monitoring | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Comprehensive API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Code host integrations | ||||
| # of code host integrations | Unlimited | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Security, compliance, and admin | ||||
| SOC 2 Type II | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| In-product analytics | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| User and admin roles | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO/SAML | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Standard repository permissions | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom repository permissions API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Private instance access | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Scale and performance | ||||
| Cloud code storage | ✗ | ✗ | Up to 75GB | Over 75GB |
| Executors | ✗ | ✗ | 2 | 4 |
| Support | ||||
| Support | Community | Community | 24/5 support | 24/5 support |
| Technical Account Manager | ✗ | ✗ | Available | ✓ |
| Support SLA | ✗ | ✗ | Standard | Priority |
| Deployment | ||||
| Single-tenant cloud deployment | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hosted deployment | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Air-gapped deployment | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Add-on |
| Usage and billing | ||||
| Price | Free | Free | $99 per active user/month
Platform access fee may apply |
Custom pricing
Platform access fee may apply |
| Contract length | NA | NA | Annual | Annual |
| Payment method | NA | NA | Invoice | Invoice |