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Factory

Droid agents that run in your terminal, desktop and cloud

Pro $20/mo · Plus $100/mo · Max $200/mo · Teams $60 + $40/seat/mo autonomous-agententerprisecli-and-cloud
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About

Factory is an agent-native software development platform built around Droids — autonomous agents that plan, code, validate and ship changes across the development lifecycle. Unusually for this category it ships in three shapes at once: a native desktop app, a CLI and an SDK, so the same agent can run locally, in your terminal or on cloud machines that Factory hosts. Pricing is individual-first and rate-limit based rather than credit based. Pro is $20/month for a single developer and covers the full agent across desktop, CLI and SDK, cloud and local background agents, plus billing and usage tracking and an agent-readiness dashboard. Plus is $100/month for roughly five times the rolling usage and adds Droid Computers, hosted cloud machines for running remote Droids. Max is $200/month for roughly ten times Pro usage and early access to new features. Teams is $60/month for the team plus $40/month per seat, capped at ten seats with centralised billing, while Business and Enterprise are quote-only: Business covers up to 150 members with custom limits, SSO, SAML/SCIM, zero data retention and audit logs, and Enterprise removes the member cap and adds dedicated compute, partitioned inference pools, data residency, customer-managed encryption keys and on-premises options. There is no free tier, which makes Factory a deliberate purchase rather than a trial-and-see tool. The rate-limit model is friendlier than credits for budgeting — you cannot accidentally burn $200 in an afternoon — but bursty parallel agent use will hit ceilings that only higher tiers remove. It supports the main frontier and open-weight models, including the latest GPT-5, Claude Opus and Sonnet and Gemini releases, and lists Blackstone, Wipro, Adyen, Groq and Chainguard as customers.

Key Features

  • Droid agents for local, CLI, desktop and cloud execution
  • Droid Computers — hosted machines for remote agents
  • Agent-readiness dashboard and usage tracking
  • SSO, SAML/SCIM, audit logs and zero data retention on Business
  • Dedicated compute and partitioned inference pools on Enterprise
  • Support for frontier and open-weight models

Deals, Discounts & How to Save

Teams at $60/mo plus $40/seat is cheaper per seat than four Pro subscriptions once you pass three developersRate-limit billing means no credit overage surprises — usage simply throttles
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Factory has no free tier, so the cheapest credible entry is Pro at $20/month — measure rate-limit pressure before moving up. When a team passes three developers, the Teams plan at $60/month plus $40/seat usually beats stacking Pro subscriptions, and because billing is rate-limit based rather than credit based you will never get a surprise overage invoice, only throttling.

Pros

  • Same agent across desktop, CLI, SDK and cloud-hosted machines
  • Rolling rate limits instead of credits — no overage bills
  • Business tier adds SSO, SAML/SCIM, ZDR and audit logs
  • Droid Computers let you run agents on Factory-hosted machines

Cons

  • No free tier at all — you must pay to evaluate
  • Team plan is capped at ten seats before you must talk to sales
  • Usage is throttled rather than metered, so heavy parallel runs stall
  • Enterprise terms and per-seat cost are quote-only

Pro Tips for Factory

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Start on Pro at $20/month and measure how often you hit rate limits before upgrading.

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If more than three developers are involved, compare Teams ($60 + $40/seat) against individual Pro seats.

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Throttling is the failure mode, not overage — plan parallel agent work around the rolling window.

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Ask about on-premises and data residency early if you are in a regulated industry.

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Use the usage dashboard to find which team runs burn the most rolling quota.

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