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Jul 2025Sourcebot relicensed its core from MIT to the Functional Source License (Fair Source), restricting competitive use while planning a delayed conversion to Apache 2.0 after two years.
SourceHelping humans and AI agents understand massive codebases
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Sourcebot is a San Francisco-based, YC Fall 2025 company building a self-hosted code understanding platform for massive codebases. It indexes repositories in customer infrastructure, supports natural-language Q&A with inline citations, and sells a free/basic tier plus Pro and Enterprise plans. No separate public CEO was clearly identified beyond the two co-founders.
Primary product
A self-hosted code search and AI code understanding platform with Ask Sourcebot, code navigation, and multi-repo indexing
Founded
2024
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Work style
Remote
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Developer tools / code understanding / code search
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
open source
freemium
subscription SaaS
enterprise software
open core
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$500K
Latest round
Seed · Sep 2025
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2025 · Pioneer Fund
People & investors
Work & culture
Open-source, build-in-public, engineering-led, and quality-focused; the founders publicly described a 'zero bug policy' and frequent product/changelog shipping.
Work style
Remote
Compensation
Public hiring signal: a Founding Engineer role was posted at $140K-$200K salary with 0.50%-2.00% equity.
Product & market
Pricing
Free Basic tier, Pro at $20 per user/month, and custom Enterprise pricing
Differentiators
- —Self-hosted/on-prem so code never leaves the customer's infrastructure
- —Natural-language Ask mode with inline citations
- —Cross-repo search and code navigation across many hosts and branches
- —Single-Docker deployment
- —Fair Source / open-core licensing model
- —BYOK model support and agent context integrations (Cursor, Claude Code, MCP)
Technology
Zoekt
Docker
Redis
MCP
TypeScript
Next.js
GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Azure DevOps/Gerrit/Gitea integrations
LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex)
SSO
permission syncing
Customers
NVIDIA
Red Hat
Wikimedia
Arista Networks
Oegema Logistics+
Competitors
Sourcegraph
OpenGrok
Hound
Livegrep
GitHub code search
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Estimated at about $451K annually (rough range $288K-$770K; third-party estimate)
Estimated monthly visits
17.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Signals & risks
Other
Jun 2026Sourcebot moved Ask Sourcebot and MCP into the paid plan in v5, which materially changed monetization and feature access.
SourceLatest news
LinkedIn · Jun 2026
Sourcebot's company post highlights the v5 release and says Ask Sourcebot can pull context from external tools such as Jira, Linear, and Notion.
Sourcebot changelog · Jun 2026
Official v5 release notes describe Ask connectors for Jira/Slack/Linear, a persistent sidebar, and expanded Git blame/history support. Ask Sourcebot and MCP moved into the paid plan.
Startuply.vc · May 2026
External profile covering Sourcebot's funding, YC F25 status, product positioning, and technical direction, including trigram indexing and multi-tenancy notes.
Sourcebot blog · Feb 2026
Engineering/culture post about Sourcebot's 'zero bug policy' and how the team uses Linear to keep bug debt under control.
Sourcebot blog · Jul 2025
Sourcebot relicensed its core from MIT to the Functional Source License to restrict competitive use while preserving a delayed open-source publication path.
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