Factory Alternatives
8 alternatives to Factory — comparable AI coding tools for building with AI agents.
Amp
Sourcegraph's agentic coding tool — a CLI and editor extensions tuned for frontier-model coding.
Claude Code
Anthropic’s official agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal, IDE, and web.
Codex CLI
OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent with sandboxed execution and two-layer approval controls.
Cursor
An AI-first code editor built on VS Code with deep in-editor agent features, parallel agents, in-house Composer models, and a plugin marketplace.
Devin
Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer that works in its own cloud workspace with an editor, terminal, and browser.
Goose
Block's open-source, on-machine AI agent that is MCP-native and model-agnostic, with a CLI and desktop app.
OpenHands
Open-source autonomous AI software-development agent (formerly OpenDevin) — writes code, runs commands, and browses the web in a sandbox.
Swe Agent
Open-source autonomous coding agent from Princeton/Stanford that turns an LLM into a software engineer to fix real GitHub issues.