Comparison
The tools people put next to SourceAnt mostly answer a question about code. SourceAnt answers a question about the system and the decisions behind it. Knowing which one you have is usually the whole decision.
Sourcegraph
Where is this code?
Index every line across every repository and search it well. It is the mature answer to large scale code search. SourceAnt builds a lighter local structure graph for connected context.
graphify, codegraph
What shape is this code, right now?
Parse the tree deterministically and hand back a graph of symbols and calls. SourceAnt now does this locally too, but keeps one central store and connects the result to durable knowledge and architecture.
SourceAnt
What did we decide, what depends on what, and is that still true?
Parts that are not code at all, like a queue or a datastore. The decisions and contracts that constrain them. A record of who approved each one, and when it aged.
Every row is something one of these does and another does not, rather than a scorecard. A blank is a design choice, not a gap.
| SourceAnt | Sourcegraph | graphify | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operates on | Code, systems, requirements, contracts, decisions | Files and symbols | Files and symbols |
| Models a queue or a datastore | yes | no | no |
| Holds decisions and constraints | yes | no | no |
| Holds knowledge that is not about code | yes | no | no |
| Boundary it stores under | any scope you define | the repository | the folder you ran it on |
| Approval state on an entry | proposed, approved, retired | not applicable | not applicable |
| Tells you when it has gone stale | yes | no | re-run it |
| Evidence on every edge | file, manifest, revision | the code itself | extracted or inferred tag |
| Runs fully local | yes, with one central index | on-premise available | yes, per repository |
| Served over MCP | yes | yes | yes |
| Priced on | repositories and analysis | seats | platform in early access |
| Open source core | MIT, open core | enterprise product | Apache 2.0 |
Checked August 2026 against each product’s own documentation and pricing. Sourcegraph moved Cody to enterprise plans for new signups in July 2025. The graphify platform is in early access ahead of its public v1. SourceAnt Core is MIT licensed and now includes local code indexing, durable knowledge, system architecture, and MCP serving. If something here has changed, tell us and it gets corrected.
The category gap
A rule about what may never go in an analytics event. A constraint the regulator put on you. A goal the quarter is being run against. A convention two teams agreed in a meeting. None of that is in a file, so a tool that parses files has nowhere to put it, and the engineer who needed it never finds it.
This is not a roadmap item, it is how the core is built. A knowledge record carries an identity, a kind, a status, a summary, and its properties. It has no repository field and no file field. Nothing in the model assumes the knowledge is about code. A scope is a set of key and value pairs you define, so a team or an organisation is a boundary you can use today.
A wiki can hold the same sentence. It cannot tell you the rule was superseded last quarter, and it cannot hand your assistant the records that bear on the change being made.
None of these are bad ideas. Each one solves a piece and leaves the same hole.
They sit where the reader already is, which is their whole advantage. They also die with the line they are attached to, cannot be queried, and nobody reviews whether they are still true.
The right instinct, written down at the right moment. Then the code moves and the ADR does not, and there is no link between the decision and the thing it was about.
Good at finding text that reads like your question. It has no notion of whether a decision is current, superseded, or was overturned last quarter, so it returns all three with equal confidence.
It reads the diff, comments, and forgets. Every pull request starts from zero, the reasoning never accumulates, and the bill grows with the team rather than with the work.
Straight answers
A comparison page that concludes you should buy the thing is not a comparison page.
That is Sourcegraph. SourceAnt indexes structure for connected context, not as a replacement for large scale code search.
Install graphify. SourceAnt keeps its local indexes in one central store instead of writing an artifact into every checkout.
The people who know why are in the room. Come back when the why starts leaving with them.
Point it at the repositories you already have. The graph, the endpoints, and the inference are open source, so the first answer costs you nothing but an afternoon.
