# Coda AI AI assistant inside Coda docs that writes, summarizes, and answers questions on the doc and connected packs ## About Coda AI Coda is a flexible doc-meets-database product founded in 2014 by Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui, two ex-Microsoft and ex-Google operators. Coda AI is the assistant layer added on top: it lives inside a doc and can write blocks of text, generate tables, summarize sections, translate, brainstorm, and answer questions grounded on the current doc, its connected packs, or selected pages. It runs on credits granted per Doc Maker per month and can be topped up with $2 or $6 add-on packs. Coda AI is at its best when the work lives inside a Coda doc. A team that already runs sprints, OKRs, or knowledge bases in Coda gets a smart assistant that drafts, summarizes, and queries that content without leaving the page. The clear limit is that Coda AI is scoped to the doc. It does not act across your stack, does not write outbound emails, does not run a sales cadence, and does not coordinate roles. Sistava is the opposite shape: an AI workforce that operates wherever the work is, treats Coda as one possible tool, and owns the outcome rather than a single block of text. ## Platform details - Pricing: Free plan with unlimited docs at restricted size. Pro at $10 per Doc Maker per month billed annually (or $12 monthly). Team at $30 per Doc Maker per month billed annually (or $36 monthly). Enterprise is custom. Coda AI is included with paid plans through a credit allotment per Doc Maker, with add-on packs at $2 (2,000 credits) or $6 (6,000 credits) per Doc Maker per month. - Founded: 2014, Mountain View - Funding: $240m total funding across four rounds, including a $100m Series D in 2021 led by Kleiner Perkins, Greylock, and NEA at a $1.4B valuation - Last reviewed: 2026-05-31 ## Official website - [Visit Coda AI](https://coda.io) ## What does Coda AI actually do? Coda AI is an assistant that lives inside Coda docs. It drafts text blocks, generates tables from a prompt, summarizes sections, translates content, brainstorms, and answers questions grounded on the current doc, selected pages, or connected packs (Slack, Google Calendar, HubSpot, GitHub, and more). You invoke it with a slash command, a chat sidebar, or a doc-wide search. Coda AI is included with paid plans through a credit allotment per Doc Maker per month, with add-on packs at $2 (2,000 credits) or $6 (6,000 credits) per Doc Maker per month. That gives a team a predictable AI cost on top of the Pro at $10 or Team at $30 per Doc Maker seat, plus a built-in escape valve when usage spikes. Where Coda AI is strongest: writing and reasoning inside a doc that is already structured. If your sprint planner, OKR tracker, or customer-research database lives in Coda, the assistant has real context to ground on, which makes the output much better than a generic chat. Where it stops short of Sistava: the assistant is bound to the doc. It does not send the email after the brief, run the campaign after the planning, or update Stripe after the pricing change. If your work lives in Coda, Coda AI is a smart upgrade. If your work spans tools and roles, Sistava is the better fit. ## How much does Coda AI cost? Coda has four tiers. Free includes unlimited docs at a restricted size and basic features. Pro at $10 per Doc Maker per month annual (or $12 monthly) covers most individual makers. Team at $30 per Doc Maker per month annual (or $36 monthly) adds team workspaces, custom branding, and Premium Packs. Enterprise is custom with SSO, audit logs, and advanced controls. Coda charges per Doc Maker rather than per user. Editors and viewers are unlimited and free, which is a generous and well-known feature. Coda AI usage is metered in credits granted per Doc Maker per month, with $2 and $6 add-on packs available when you exceed the allotment. For a solo founder, that sounds great until you count the Doc Makers. A small team where four people make docs is $120 per month on Team annual before any AI top-ups. Add a $6 pack per Maker for heavy AI use and it lands closer to $144 per month for the AI assistance inside the doc. Sistava is flat per workspace. One plan covers the marketing employee, the sales employee, the support employee, and the rest of the AI Employees the company hires, no per-Maker math. See the pricing page for the full ladder. ## When does Coda AI beat Sistava? Coda AI wins when your single source of truth is already a Coda doc. A team that runs sprint planning, OKRs, product specs, and customer-research databases in Coda gets an assistant that understands that context and grounds answers on real internal content. That makes the output materially better than a generic chat tool and the friction near zero. It also wins on structured generation inside docs. Generating a clean table from a prompt, summarizing a long page, drafting a section in the right voice, and answering questions across connected packs are all fast and well-implemented. For knowledge-work teams that live inside Coda, that is a real productivity gain. Pricing for the AI layer itself is honest. Credits are predictable, the add-on packs are small line items, and the model included in the base plan is enough for casual use. For a buyer who wants AI inside the doc tool they already pay for, Coda AI is a smart addition. Sistava is built for a different buyer: a founder or operator who wants a workforce that operates across the whole stack, not inside one doc tool. Both can be run together, with Coda holding the team wiki and Sistava executing the work that the wiki describes. ## Where does Coda AI fall short for solo founders? Coda AI lives inside Coda. That is the design and the limit. The assistant can draft a customer-update block but cannot send it to the inbox, log it in HubSpot, or post a recap to Slack as a real teammate. Sistava treats the doc as one tool. The employee writes, sends, files, and follows up wherever the work needs to land. There is no team layer. Coda AI is one assistant per doc. Sistava ships a coordinated team where Tom can hand off to Maya, the support employee can brief the founder, and a team leader can run sprint reviews. That is a different shape of help, useful when the job is larger than one block of text. Execution surfaces are narrower. Coda AI does not operate a browser, run a desktop companion, place a call, or run a sales cadence. Sistava does all of that as part of the same hire, which closes more of the actual work without leaving the workforce. Per-Doc-Maker pricing penalizes range. A team where four people create docs is on the hook for four Maker seats, plus AI credit top-ups if anyone leans on the assistant. Sistava is flat per workspace, so a one-person company can run a full team of AI Employees on a single plan without per-head math. ## Comparison - [Compare Coda AI with Sistava](/en/compare/ai-knowledge-bases/coda-ai) — See the two platforms side by side when you are ready to evaluate them.