Factory

Factory is a platform for AI coding agents called Droids that plan, build, test and review code across desktop, terminal, web and CI.

Factory provides autonomous coding agents, called Droids, that plan, build, validate and review software for individual developers and large engineering organisations. Droids run as desktop, CLI and SDK clients and as cloud or local background agents, and Droid Computers give them persistent machines, either Factory-managed in the cloud or dedicated local hardware. Mission Control shows active missions, worker progress and execution logs, automations handle repetitive engineering work, and model routing sends each task to the model that best balances quality, speed and cost. Teams also get pull request reviews with inline comments, AutoWiki for documentation that stays current as code changes, agent readiness scores per repository and usage analytics. Enterprises can control where the system runs and which models it uses, with SSO, zero data retention and audit logs.

Factory at a glance

Best for: Software engineer, Founder
Runs on: Web, CLI, macOS, Windows, Linux
Pricing: Pro $20/month; Plus $100; Max $200; Teams $60/month plus $40/seat; Business and Enterprise custom
Released: May 2025
Category: AI coding tool
Website: factory.com

Key features

Droids that plan, build and validate code changes
Desktop, CLI, SDK and cloud background agents
Droid Computers with persistent state
Mission Control for live agent progress and logs
Code review with inline comments on every PR
AutoWiki living documentation per repository
Model routing across providers

Use it for

Automate routine engineering tasks across many repos
Review every pull request before merge
Keep repository documentation current automatically

Companions

Tools that articles about Factory recommend using with it, each with its job.

Linear — Ready tickets go from Linear to an open pull request.
Jira — The same ticket-to-PR automation for Jira teams.
Slack — Mention Droid in a thread; get daily briefs and recaps.
Sentry — Alerts start root-cause sessions that prepare a fix.
Datadog — Correlates metrics with code changes during incidents.
PagerDuty — Pulls the incident timeline into the investigation.

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