Factory Droid

Factory Droid is an AI software development agent platform from Factory.ai that achieved a record-breaking 58.75% score on Terminal-Bench. Droid handles all stages of the software development lifecycle, from coding and testing to incident response, providing true end-to-end autonomous development capabilities.

Core Features

End-to-End Autonomous Coding

• Complete Feature Development: Independently builds production-ready features from tickets or prompts
• Autonomous Decision-Making: Completes code planning and implementation without human intervention
• Production-Grade Quality: Generated code meets production environment standards
• Context Understanding: Deep understanding of project structure and business logic

Specialized Droid Team

Code Droid

• Feature development from specs
• Large-scale codebase refactoring
• Framework and tech stack migrations
• Automatic bug location and fixing

Knowledge Droid

• Search code, docs, and internet
• Answer complex technical questions
• Write high-quality spec documents
• Integrate multi-source information

Reliability Droid

• Incident response in minutes
• Automatic alert triage
• Root cause analysis
• Automated troubleshooting

Product Droid

• Intelligent ticket management
• Requirement analysis
• Priority sorting
• Progress tracking

Multi-Model Support

• Latest Frontier Models: GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 4, OpenAI o3
• Advanced Reasoning: Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Opus 4.1
• Flexible Switching: Automatically selects optimal model
• BYOK Option: Bring your own API keys

Cross-Platform Integration

• IDE: VS Code, JetBrains, Vim native support
• Web Interface: Complete web workspace
• CLI: Powerful command-line tools
• Collaboration: Slack, Linear, Jira integration
• Version Control: GitHub, GitLab native
• MCP Support: Model Context Protocol

Key Capabilities

1. Autonomous Development: Generate complete features from simple prompts
2. Intelligent Code Review: Context-aware reviews without waiting for teammates
3. Incident Response Automation: Minutes-level root cause analysis
4. Knowledge Management: Cross-codebase, docs, and internet search
5. Collaboration Enhancement: Slack and Linear integration

Performance Benchmarks

• Terminal-Bench Score: 58.75% (Industry #1)
• Development Speed: 2-3x improvement
• Code Quality: 30%+ bug reduction
• Response Time: Hours to minutes for incidents
• Cost Reduction: 40-60%

Pricing

Free Tier (BYOK)

• Bring your own LLM API keys
• Access all core features
• Unlimited usage

Pro ($20/month)

• Dedicated compute resources
• Latest AI models
• Priority support
• Team collaboration

Enterprise (Custom)

• Private deployment
• Custom agents
• SLA guarantees
• Compliance: SOC II, GDPR, ISO 42001, CCPA

Alternative Pricing

• $40/team + $10/active user/month

Use Cases

• Rapid prototyping
• Large-scale refactoring
• Production incident handling
• Code quality improvement
• Team efficiency boost

Security & Compliance

• SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, ISO 42001, CCPA certified
• Encrypted transmission
• Role-based access control
• Complete audit logs
• No training on customer code

Comparison

vs GitHub Copilot

• ✅ End-to-end autonomous development
• ✅ Full SDLC support
• ✅ Incident response capabilities
• ✅ Multi-agent collaboration

vs Cursor

• ✅ Multiple specialized agents
• ✅ Incident response features
• ✅ Enterprise compliance certifications

Supported Languages

JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, Rust, C/C++, Ruby, PHP, Swift, Kotlin

Resources

• Official: https://factory.ai/
• Docs: https://docs.factory.ai/
• Terminal-Bench Ranking
• GA Announcement

Sources:

• Factory.ai Official
• Terminal-Bench #1 Ranking
• Factory Pricing