Factory
Droid agents that run in your terminal, desktop and cloud
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
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
Start on Pro at $20/month and measure how often you hit rate limits before upgrading.
If more than three developers are involved, compare Teams ($60 + $40/seat) against individual Pro seats.
Throttling is the failure mode, not overage — plan parallel agent work around the rolling window.
Ask about on-premises and data residency early if you are in a regulated industry.
Use the usage dashboard to find which team runs burn the most rolling quota.
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