Factory

Factory is an agent-native software development platform built around Droids — autonomous coding agents that plan, write, test, and ship code from a natural-language prompt. You hand a Droid a task and it works across your codebase, aiming to turn "one prompt to PR" rather than just autocompleting lines.

It is aimed at individual developers who want a capable agent in their existing workflow, and at engineering organizations that need agents with real codebase and org context. Droids run in the terminal through the Droid CLI, inside IDEs such as VS Code and JetBrains, and on the web, so the same agent meets you wherever you already work. In an AI-assisted workflow, that means delegating multi-step engineering tasks — refactors, fixes, coordinated changes across many files — to an agent that understands your repository instead of starting from a blank context each time.

Highlights

• Autonomous Droids — agents that plan, write, test, and open pull requests from a single instruction, with adjustable autonomy from fully supervised to fire-and-forget.
• Runs across terminal, IDE, and web — the Droid CLI, IDE integrations, and a browser interface share the same agent, so you can switch surfaces without losing context.
• Org and codebase context — native integrations with GitHub/GitLab, Jira, Slack, and PagerDuty, plus codebase indexing, so a Droid sees the tickets, architecture, and code you do.
• Model-flexible execution — Droids work with multiple models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and others) and can run locally or in the cloud for long-running, delegated tasks.

In an AI-assisted workflow

Factory fits into a terminal tab or your editor. A typical loop is to install the Droid CLI, start a session in your project, and describe the change; the Droid plans, edits across files, and prepares a PR while you review. See AI Coding Agents & CLIs in 2026 for how this pattern compares across tools.

curl -fsSL https://app.factory.ai/cli | sh
cd your-project
droid
# then: "Add input validation to the signup endpoint and write tests for it."

Good to know

Factory is a proprietary SaaS product, not open source. Plans, as of September 2026 from docs.factory.ai: Pro $20/month, Plus $100/month, and Max $200/month for individuals; Teams at $60/month per team plus $40/month per seat (up to 10 seats); Business and Enterprise custom-priced, with deployment options spanning SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, and air-gapped. There is no free tier, though Droid Core keeps you working on open-weight models with separate rate limits. Plans and limits change, so confirm current details on the official pricing page. For broader context on how agentic coding tools are being adopted, see AI Coding Statistics 2026.