CODA

What CODA does

Coda is an all-in-one collaborative workspace platform that fuses documents, structured databases, and lightweight applications inside a single canvas, allowing teams to replace a stack of separate tools (wikis, project trackers, lightweight CRMs, form builders) with one building-blocks-based system. The platform's underlying technology centers on a proprietary formula language (positioned as easier than Excel), a multi-homing/cross-doc page referencing model, native automations, and Coda AI for writing assistance, knowledge retrieval, and AI column automation at scale. Extensibility is delivered through Packs — more than 600 pre-built integrations (Slack, Jira, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake, Workday, Gmail, Zoom, and others) — and a Pack Studio developer environment for custom integrations. Coda serves a horizontal base of customers including product, sales, engineering, marketing, and HR/people teams, with stated adoption by 50,000+ teams and 80% of the Fortune 100 across named logos such as Figma, The New York Times, Square, Robinhood, BuzzFeed, TED, Uber, Qualtrics, Intercom, Meesho, Tonal, and Oportun.

Coda makes money primarily through recurring subscriptions on a Maker Billing model in which only document creators and editors are charged, while viewers, commenters, and collaborators access content for free. Public pricing tiers include a free individual plan, a $10/month starter tier, a $30/month mid tier, and custom annual contracts for enterprise customers requiring SSO, SOC 2, HIPAA compliance, and dedicated support. Distribution combines product-led self-serve sign-up through coda.io and mobile apps with a sales-led enterprise motion targeting Fortune 100 consolidation plays. The company was founded in 2019 by Shishir Mehrotra (CEO) and Alex DeNeui (CTO), raised more than $300 million across a Series C and Series D to reach a $1.4 billion valuation in 2021, and was acquired by Grammarly in August 2025 as part of Grammarly's expansion into an AI-native productivity suite.

Name

CODA

Legal name

Coda

Website

https://coda.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Coda provides an all-in-one collaborative workspace that combines documents, databases, and lightweight applications with a proprietary formula language and 600+ integrations, serving product, sales, engineering, marketing, and HR teams at SMBs and Fortune 100 enterprises.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Collaborative Workspace Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Work Management & Collaboration Suites (BPAMAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industries

Document Creation & Office Suites (BPAMAMAD), Data App Builders (Forms, Portals & Internal Tools) (HDAEAKAK), Digital Process Automation (DPA) & Orchestration Suites (HDAEAHAF)

Keywords

• Collaborative workspace software
• Document collaboration platform
• Team productivity SaaS
• Workflow automation tools
• Low-code application builder

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Subscription - Maker Billing: Coda charges based on the number of 'makers' (users who create and edit docs) rather than all users. Viewers, commenters, and basic editors access documents for free. This model enables cost savings for teams by reducing expensive seats in other tools like Salesforce, Jira, and Asana.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Coda is an all-in-one collaborative workspace platform that combines documents, structured databases (trackers), and lightweight applications into a single environment. Teams use Coda to build team hubs, product roadmaps, OKRs, CRMs, and other operational workflows using a flexible building-blocks architecture and proprietary formula language, with Coda AI providing writing, knowledge, and task assistance. The platform is extended through 600+ Packs integrations and is sold via a freemium, Maker Billing subscription model with enterprise plans for larger organizations.

Product overview

Coda is an all-in-one collaborative workspace platform that combines documents, databases, and team collaboration into a single unified system. The core Coda platform centers on Docs & Team Hubs for flexible document creation and knowledge management, and Trackers & Apps for building database-powered applications using Coda's proprietary formula language. Coda AI serves as the integrated AI assistant providing writing assistance, knowledge retrieval, and workflow automation. The platform is extensible through Packs (600+ pre-built integrations) and Pack Studio for custom integrations. Additional capabilities include Publishing for external content sharing and tool consolidation features that allow teams to replace multiple point solutions with Coda.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Coda AI: AI-powered assistant that helps teams with writing assistance, knowledge assistance, and task assistance - acts as an informed, omnipresent AI collaborator that understands your work.
• Coda Packs

Products and services

• Coda (Core Platform) An all-in-one collaborative workspace that brings together documents, structured data, and teams into a single platform, combining document familiarity with app-like building blocks for enterprise and team use.
• Docs & Team Hubs Flexible document canvas for writing proposals, PRDs, design docs, and retrospectives, combined with central team hubs that collect knowledge, take notes, make decisions, and connect external data.
• Trackers & Apps Relational-database-style tables and applications that let teams build end-to-end workflows such as OKRs, CRMs, and spend analyzers, using Coda's formula language as internal apps.
• Coda AI Connected AI assistant built into Coda providing AI chat for brainstorming, an AI assistant for content creation and summarization, and an AI column for generating insights from data at scale. Included free for doc makers.
• Coda Brain AI-powered knowledge layer that understands and retrieves information from Coda docs and connected data sources to answer questions and surface insights across team knowledge.
• Packs Over 600 pre-built integrations that connect Coda with external tools (Slack, Jira, Salesforce, Figma, Google Workspace, Zoom, Workday, etc.) for data sync, automated actions, and enhanced functionality.
• Publishing Feature that lets users publish Coda docs externally to share content beyond the organization with controlled access.

Quantifiable outcome

• Companies save 78% compared to Notion due to Maker Billing model
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration15 records

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• GrammarlycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGrammarly acquired Coda as part of its expansion beyond writing assistance into an AI-native productivity suite. The acquisition positions Coda as part of Grammarly's broader platform strategy.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Notion: Notion is the most direct competitor to Coda, offering an all-in-one workspace that combines docs, databases, wikis, and project management. Coda actively markets against Notion with dedicated comparison guides, and both target the same prosumer-to-enterprise segment with overlapping use cases (team hubs, wikis, lightweight apps).
• Airtable: Airtable is a direct competitor combining spreadsheets/databases with collaborative app-building capabilities. Coda explicitly positions itself as 'more flexible than Airtable' (per Fast Company citation) and competes for the same low-code/internal-tooling use cases across enterprise and SMB segments.
• Atlassian Confluence: Confluence is a dominant team documentation and wiki platform from Atlassian, deeply embedded in enterprise engineering and product workflows. Coda runs explicit vs. Confluence comparison content, targeting the same team hub and documentation use cases at Fortune 100 buyers.
• Monday.com: Monday.com is a leading work management and project tracking platform with strong formula/automation capabilities, comparable to Coda's Trackers & Apps offering. Both target enterprise teams seeking to consolidate project management, OKRs, and team coordination onto a single platform.
• Asana: Asana is a direct competitor in the work management and project collaboration space, overlapping with Coda's product, marketing, and engineering team use cases. Both companies target Fortune 100 enterprises with horizontal collaboration platforms.
• ClickUp: ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity platform combining docs, tasks, whiteboards, and goals — directly overlapping with Coda's positioning as a unified workspace. ClickUp competes on price-aggressiveness against Coda's Maker Billing model.
• Quip (Salesforce): Quip is Salesforce's collaborative document platform, acquired in 2016. Coda maintains an explicit vs. Quip comparison page, and both target enterprise sales/account teams needing document collaboration integrated with CRM data — a segment where Coda specifically competes.
• Smartsheet: Smartsheet is a work execution platform combining spreadsheets, project management, and collaboration — overlapping with Coda's Trackers & Apps and team hub offerings. Both target enterprise customers seeking spreadsheet-like flexibility with structured workflows and automation.

Broad incumbents

• Microsoft Loop: Microsoft Loop is Microsoft's collaborative workspace product bundled into Microsoft 365. As a free/embedded component of the dominant enterprise productivity suite, Loop represents a significant competitive threat to Coda's enterprise expansion by neutralizing standalone collaboration value propositions.
• Google Workspace: Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Sites) is the dominant enterprise document and collaboration suite from Google. While less flexible than Coda for building apps, Workspace's incumbent position and bundled pricing create competitive pressure across Coda's enterprise customer base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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