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Graphify is an open-source Python CLI that turns a codebase, plus its docs, SQL schemas, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph exposed as a /graphify skill and MCP server for coding assistants, built on local deterministic tree-sitter parsing with no vector store.

Graphify’s bet is that structure beats similarity: an agent that can traverse exact calls-and-imports edges with file:line citations needs less context than one searching embeddings, and the code path runs entirely on your machine. The bet is young, self-benchmarked, and wrapped in a YC company’s funnel.

What it is
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One command builds graphify-out/: an interactive graph.html, a GRAPH_REPORT.md with god nodes and communities, and graph.json with the full graph, which you then query through graphify query, path, and explain instead of grepping. Code is parsed with tree-sitter across 36 code languages (the project site’s count as of 2026-09-18), resolving calls, imports, and inheritance edges deterministically with no LLM; docs, PDFs, and images go through a semantic pass using your assistant’s model or a configured API key. Every edge is tagged EXTRACTED, INFERRED, or AMBIGUOUS, so readable facts are distinguishable from guessed ones, and queries return subgraphs with file:line citations. A skill installer targets the 17 coding assistants the vendor documents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, and 12 more), plus an MCP server and exports to Neo4j and Obsidian. Made by Graphify Labs, a YC Summer 2026 company of two people in London, Apache-2.0, with the PyPI package named graphifyy.

Status
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Growing absurdly fast for its age: 123,562 stars and 2,080 commits in about six months since 2026-04-03, latest release v0.9.75 on 2026-10-04, all as of 2026-10-04, with 280 contributors as of 2026-10-04. The YC page claims 5M+ downloads and named production users, all self-reported. The Enterprise early-access tier now ships differential formal verification: a solver ladder (Z3, CrossHair, CBMC, JBMC) that proves a changed function behavior-preserving or returns a concrete input that breaks it, alongside graph-aware PR review, per the vendor’s full index (fetched 2026-09-26). The ecosystem is growing too: a third-party C# port, graphify-csharp, launched September 11, 2026 with a 46-point Show HN and 21 comments as of 2026-09-16, the largest discussion any Graphify-linked project has drawn. The star count still outruns the discussion footprint: Hacker News stories linking the main repo drew two or three points with no comments, a mismatch I treat as a flag, not a slam dunk.

Strengths
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  • The code-only path is fully local and key-free, so the default workflow leaks nothing.
  • Edge-level provenance (EXTRACTED versus INFERRED with file:line) is a real answer to the trust problem in generated context.
  • One graph covers code and its non-code artifacts, and the skill installs across most harnesses your team already runs.
  • Shipping velocity is exceptional, with releases landing near-daily (v0.9.68, a watcher shell-quoting security fix, on 2026-09-25) and a published benchmark methodology.

Cautions
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  • The benchmarks are self-published, and on the headline QA-accuracy metric graphify trails supermemory while winning on cost and recall, per its own BENCHMARKS.md.
  • Only code is local: docs, PDFs, and images are sent to whatever LLM backend is configured.
  • Pre-1.0 with 1,503 open issues and PRs as of 2026-10-04, a nonstandard default branch, and acknowledged PyPI name-squatting on graphify* packages.
  • The free CLI is the top of an open-core funnel into a hosted product whose plans only recently gained public prices, so expect the monetization strategy to keep moving.

Pricing
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The core CLI is free, Apache-2.0, no account. The hosted side now publishes four plans (as of 2026-09-22): Free ($0, one developer, no card, with node, build, and review allowances), Pro ($10/month billed yearly or $15 billed monthly, one developer, uncapped graphs), Teams ($20 per seat/month billed yearly or $29 billed monthly, minimum 2 seats, rising to $28 yearly and $40 monthly after the first 100 teams), and Enterprise (early access, self-hosted, licensed per seat, with the price scoped on a call instead of published), plus free access for qualified MIT and Apache licensed OSS projects.

Price history
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Date Plan Change Source
2026-09-18 Hosted plans First published ladder: Free $0 (one developer), Pro $10/mo billed yearly or $15 monthly, Teams $20/seat/mo yearly or $29 monthly (min 2 seats), Enterprise scoped on a call; core CLI free (Apache-2.0). graphify.com/pricing

Compared to
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  • Repomix: flattens a whole repo into one file for a single prompt; choose Graphify for repeated agentic Q&A over a codebase, Repomix for one-shot context sharing.
  • Sourcegraph code context platform: org-wide search across many repositories; choose Graphify for deep structural reasoning about one codebase inside an agent.
  • Semantic code search: embeddings find similar chunks for vague queries; Graphify returns exact connection paths with citations when you need to know how things connect.

Bottom line
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Recommended for teams whose agents burn tokens re-discovering how a large codebase connects, who can tolerate pre-1.0 churn and verify the benchmarks on their own repo. Not for small repos where grep and packing are enough, or for buyers who need independent evidence before adoption.

Changes
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  • 2026-08-30 - Created as a Context engines note covering the local AST knowledge graph, with the self-benchmarked caveat recorded.
  • 2026-09-12 - Recorded the newly published hosted plans (Free, Pro $10, Teams $20 per seat, Enterprise) and folded the graphify-csharp port in as ecosystem evidence.
  • 2026-09-16 - Re-verified: release v0.9.62, 118,127 stars, 266 contributors, and the hosted plans gained monthly billing options (Pro $15/month, Teams $29/seat/month) while annual prices held; Enterprise is now early access, per seat, priced on a call.
  • 2026-09-18 - Re-verified: release v0.9.63, 119,153 stars, 1,810 commits, 253 contributors, 1,394 open issues and PRs; the edge provenance model now documents a third tag, AMBIGUOUS, alongside EXTRACTED and INFERRED; hosted plans unchanged; the C# port reached 67 stars.
  • 2026-09-20 - Added the Price history section tracking price changes in a table, per the new owner rule.
  • 2026-09-20 - Recorded release v0.9.64 (2026-09-18) and refreshed the volatile numbers (119,720 stars, 1,843 commits, 1,425 open issues and PRs); hosted plans unchanged.
  • 2026-09-22 - Recorded release v0.9.66 (2026-09-22) and refreshed the volatile numbers (120,654 stars, 1,888 commits, 273 contributors, 1,445 open issues and PRs); hosted plans unchanged.
  • 2026-09-25 - Recorded release v0.9.67 (2026-09-23), refreshed the volatile numbers (121,216 stars, 1,908 commits, 260 contributors, 1,464 open issues and PRs), corrected the installer surface to the vendor’s documented 17 assistants, and added the Enterprise early-access differential formal verification and graph-aware PR review; hosted plans unchanged.
  • 2026-09-26 - Recorded release v0.9.68 (2026-09-25, a watcher shell-quoting security fix) and refreshed the volatile numbers (121,495 stars, 1,933 commits, 263 contributors, 1,478 open issues and PRs); hosted plans unchanged.
  • 2026-09-27 - Recorded release v0.9.69 (2026-09-26) and refreshed the volatile numbers (121,718 stars, 1,961 commits, 264 contributors, 1,483 open issues and PRs); hosted plans unchanged.
  • 2026-09-29 - Recorded release v0.9.71 (2026-09-28) and refreshed the volatile numbers (122,219 stars, 1,984 commits, 267 contributors, 1,501 open issues and PRs); hosted plans unchanged.
  • 2026-10-01 - Reworded banned-term words out of the prose; meaning unchanged.
  • 2026-10-02 - Recorded release v0.9.73 (2026-09-30, with v0.9.72 on 2026-09-29) and refreshed the volatile numbers (123,085 stars, 2,023 commits, 277 contributors, 1,516 open issues and PRs); hosted plans re-verified unchanged.
  • 2026-10-03 - Recorded release v0.9.74 (2026-10-02) and refreshed the volatile numbers (123,390 stars, 2,043 commits, 280 contributors, 1,531 open issues and PRs); hosted plans re-verified unchanged.
  • 2026-10-04 - Recorded release v0.9.75 (2026-10-04) and refreshed the volatile numbers (123,562 stars, 2,080 commits, 1,503 open issues and PRs); hosted plans re-verified unchanged.

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