Factory

What is Factory?

Factory builds Droid, a software development agent that runs through the Factory desktop app, a CLI and an SDK. Droids work on local machines or as background agents in the cloud, and the Plus and Max plans add Factory-managed cloud computers for remote runs. Missions take on scoped software projects: you plan together with Droid, the work is broken into milestones that workers coordinate on and validate, and you approve the plan before anything runs. Custom Automations start sessions on a schedule or from Slack, GitHub or webhook triggers. Factory is model-agnostic: it supports frontier and open-weight models, lets you bring your own keys or locally hosted models in the CLI and app, and offers a Router that picks a model by quality, latency, cost and cache state. Individual plans run $20, $100 and $200 per month, Teams costs $60/month plus $40 per seat, and Business and Enterprise add SSO, audit logging, zero data retention and on-premise or airgapped deployment on custom terms.

Use cases

• Delegate coding tasks to background agents
• Plan and run multi-feature software projects
• Automate issue and bug-report triage
• Run agents from the terminal or CI
• Choose and route between AI models
• Govern coding agents across an organization
• Review codebase readiness for agents

Who it's for

• Software developers
• Engineering teams
• Platform teams
• Enterprise IT and security teams

Why use Factory

• Model choice stays open, so a team can use an approved provider for one repository and a local model for another.
• Missions put the plan and success criteria up front, instead of leaving a reviewer to infer them from a final patch.
• Rolling limits and prepaid Extra Usage make spend easier to predict than open-ended metering.
• Enterprise controls let administrators set hard boundaries on models, tools and network access.
• Droid runs where the code already lives, including laptops, CI runners, VMs and airgapped networks.

Factory features

• Droid agent in a desktop app, CLI and SDK
• Cloud and local background agents
• Missions with milestones, worker coordination and validation
• Custom Automations triggered by schedule, Slack, GitHub or webhooks
• Custom Models with provider keys, compatible endpoints and local models
• Factory Router that selects models automatically
• Droid Computers: managed cloud machines for remote runs
• Agent-readiness dashboard and usage tracking
• SSO, SAML/SCIM, audit logging and zero data retention on Business and Enterprise
• On-premise, airgapped and EU deployment patterns for Enterprise

Factory integrations

• Slack
• GitHub
• OpenTelemetry
• MCP
• GPT-5
• Claude
• Gemini

How to get started with Factory

1. Choose a plan and install the Factory app, the Droid CLI or the SDK.
2. Connect your repository and choose a model, or bring your own provider keys or a local model.
3. Give Droid a task, or start a Mission and approve the plan it proposes before work begins.
4. Let background agents run locally or on a Droid Computer while you monitor usage and progress in the dashboard.
5. Review the result, then set up Custom Automations to start sessions on a schedule or from Slack, GitHub or webhook events.

Factory limitations

• Individual plans are governed by rolling 5-hour, 7-day and 30-day rate limits
• Missions require Extra Usage to be enabled and pause when they hit a rate limit
• Custom models are not offered in Factory's hosted web or mobile products
• Managed Droid Computers are included from the Plus plan upward
• Teams is capped at 10 seats; larger groups need Business or Enterprise

Factory pricing

Factory has no free plan. Plans start at $20 per month, according to the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026.

Factory plans

• Pro

  $20/mo

  • Desktop, CLI and SDK
  • Cloud and local background agents
  • Billing and usage statistics
  • Agent-readiness dashboard

• Plus

  $100/mo

  • Everything in Pro
  • About 5x the usage of Pro
  • Droid Computers (managed cloud computers)

• Max

  $200/mo

  • Everything in Plus
  • About 10x the usage of Pro
  • Early access to new features

• Teams

  $60/mo per team

  plus $40/mo per seat

  • Everything in Pro for each seat
  • Up to 10 seats
  • Centralized billing

• Business

  Custom

  • Custom usage limits
  • SSO and SAML/SCIM
  • Zero Data Retention
  • Audit logging
  • Dedicated onboarding and support

• Enterprise

  Custom

  • Unlimited team members
  • Dedicated compute
  • On-premise deployment options
  • Data residency
  • Dedicated Account Manager and SLAs

Plans as listed on the official pricing page on 24 Oct 2026. Prices can change and may vary by country or exclude tax. Check the official pricing page.

Factory alternatives

The main Factory alternatives listed on Debuly are Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Kilo Code and Augment Code. The table compares pricing and platforms; order is A–Z.

1. 

   Augment Code

   Coding agent platform with a codebase Context Engine, Cosmos cloud agents and the Auggie CLI, priced as flat team plans plus usage.

   CodingAutomation and agentsDeveloper platforms
   PaidVisit Augment Code (official site)
2. 

   Claude Code

   Anthropic's coding agent that fixes bugs, writes tests and runs migrations from your terminal, IDE, desktop app, web or Slack.

   CodingAutomation and agentsDeveloper platforms
   PaidVisit Claude Code (official site)
3. 

   Cursor

   AI code editor and coding agent with cloud agents, Bugbot code review and multi-provider models, sold with Grok and X plans.

   CodingAutomation and agentsDeveloper platforms
   FreemiumVisit Cursor (official site)
4. 

   Devin

   Cognition's AI software engineer, with a desktop app, CLI and cloud agents that take coding tasks through to pull requests.

   CodingAutomation and agentsDeveloper platforms
   FreemiumVisit Devin (official site)
5. 

   GitHub Copilot

   GitHub's AI coding assistant for code completion, chat and agents in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, the CLI and GitHub.com.

   CodingAutomation and agents
   FreemiumVisit GitHub Copilot (official site)
6. 

   Kilo Code

   Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI, with 500+ models, bring-your-own-key and team plans.

   CodingDeveloper platformsAutomation and agents
   FreemiumVisit Kilo Code (official site)

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