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Sourcegraph MCP Server vs TokenEconomizer

TokenEconomizer scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Sourcegraph MCP Server's 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Sourcegraph MCP Server leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do code repositories.

Best code, repository and documentation tools for AI agents · All 39 code comparisons

Sourcegraph MCP ServerSourcegraph, Inc. · MCP server C57.5/100#717 of 1244 TokenEconomizerMicrosoft · Agent framework B62.6/100#502 of 1244

Which one, for what

Sourcegraph MCP Server C

Best for A company that already runs Sourcegraph and wants agents to search and navigate many repositories with compiler-accurate definitions and references.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 71 against 66
  • Security & auth, 76 against 71
  • Maintenance & community, 83 against 43

Watch for

Enterprise plans only, from a $16,000 minimum annual contract through sales. A Cloud trial is by request and subject to eligibility

TokenEconomizer B

Best for Lowering the repeat cost of coding agents in repositories they work in often

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 46 against 25
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 15

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Open source

Watch for

Version 0.1.0 with no changelog or release notes found; updating means a git pull of main

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runSourcegraph MCP ServerTokenEconomizerEdge
Reliability16%202546TokenEconomizer +21
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27166Sourcegraph MCP Server +5
Agent ergonomics13%16.27276TokenEconomizer +4
Security & auth14%17.57671Sourcegraph MCP Server +5
Payments & pricing10%12.51560TokenEconomizer +45
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88343Sourcegraph MCP Server +40
Transparency & trust7%8.87876Sourcegraph MCP Server +2
Negative events≤1500
TotalC 57.5/100B 62.6/100

Facts side by side

FactSourcegraph MCP ServerTokenEconomizer
KindMCP serverAgent framework
VendorSourcegraph, Inc.Microsoft
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsStreamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary. The server is part of the Sourcegraph Enterprise product under the Sourcegraph Terms of ServiceApache-2.0
Tools exposed16none
Read-only variant documentedyesno
llms.txtnono
MCP registryio.github.sourcegraph/mcpnot listed
Last release2026-09-17none
Terms last updated2026-07-22no date given
Privacy policy last updated2026-06-12no document linked
Customer content may train modelsyes, with an opt-outnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularitynone976 stars

Verdicts

Sourcegraph MCP Server

Sixteen read-only tools search and navigate code across every repository an instance indexes, with OAuth limited to an mcp scope and repository permissions enforced on each call. Access needs an Enterprise contract, priced from $16,000 a year, and no request rate limits were found in the reviewed documentation.

TokenEconomizer

A standard-library Python plugin that keeps learned state on the machine, documents each hook and makes every action reversible. It is version 0.1.0 with no changelog, installs from a git clone of main, and the 18.4 to 30.9 per cent savings are the paper's SWE-Bench figures, measured with settings that differ from the plugin's defaults.

Before you call either

Sourcegraph MCP Server

  1. Connect to https://<instance>/.api/mcp for the nine core tools. Use /.api/mcp/all for go_to_definition, find_references, nls_search and compare_revisions
  2. Request only the mcp scope in OAuth. Any other scope on the MCP resource fails with invalid_scope
  3. Without OAuth, send Authorization: token <access token> and create the token with the mcp scope and an expiry
  4. Call list_repos first and name the repository in every code_finder task. It declines broad searches across repositories
  5. Read large files with startLine and endLine. Files over 128KB return only the first 200 lines

TokenEconomizer

  1. Check the agent's version against the README's supported range before installing; versions outside it are untested or unsupported.
  2. Keep micro-skills off, or set microskills=envfacts, in a repository whose command output you don't trust.
  3. If a tool you need is missing, run the toolprune command to see what was left out and toolprune restore to bring it back.
  4. Run the plugin's commands from a terminal with ~/.tokeneconomizer/bin/te; inside the agent each command costs a model turn.
  5. Start the agent with TE_DISABLE=1 to run one session without the plugin.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Sourcegraph MCP Server or TokenEconomizer?

TokenEconomizer scores 62.6 (B) on agent readiness against Sourcegraph MCP Server's 57.5 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Sourcegraph MCP Server leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community.

Can an agent call Sourcegraph MCP Server and TokenEconomizer without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Sourcegraph MCP Server. No hosted endpoint is listed for TokenEconomizer.

Are Sourcegraph MCP Server and TokenEconomizer open source?

No open-source release is listed for Sourcegraph MCP Server. TokenEconomizer is open source (Apache-2.0).

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