Alternatives to Factory
AI coding agents called Droids that plan, build, review and ship code from desktop, terminal and web. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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Factory
AI coding agents called Droids that plan, build, review and ship code from desktop, terminal and web.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Factory.
Devin
An autonomous AI coding agent that works on engineering tasks and delivers ready-to-merge pull requests.
Devin is a web-only autonomous agent that takes tasks end to end to a pull request and tests changes in its own browser, but it has no CLI.
Claude Code
Agentic coding tool that reads a codebase, edits files and runs commands.
Claude Code works directly in your repository from the terminal, IDEs, desktop and web, and requires a paid Claude plan or API credits instead of Factory's model choice.
Augment Code
An AI software development platform with agents, a CLI and a context engine for large codebases.
Augment Code offers a CLI and cloud agents with a context engine built for large codebases, and it also covers review, testing, incidents and migrations for organisations.
Amp
Coding agent that runs from a CLI on your machine or unattended in hosted environments called orbs.
Amp runs agents from a CLI or unattended in hosted orbs with event-driven automations, though it has no desktop app and pricing is not stated on its homepage.
Jules
Google's asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories in a cloud VM and opens pull requests.
Jules is Google's freemium asynchronous agent that works in a cloud VM and opens pull requests, but it is tied to GitHub repositories and Google's cloud.
Google Antigravity
Google's agent-first development platform with a desktop IDE and a terminal CLI for AI-assisted coding.
Google Antigravity offers a desktop IDE and terminal CLI with parallel agents and scheduled messages, on a freemium plan tied to Google's AI services instead of multiple model vendors.
Zencoder
AI coding agents for planning, writing, testing and reviewing code in a desktop app or IDE.
Zencoder runs agents in a desktop app or IDE, using different models for planning, building and review, with tests and linting on every change. It requires a subscription.
Cursor
An AI code editor built on VS Code, with coding agents that plan and carry out tasks.
Cursor is a VS Code-based editor with multi-file agents, a CLI and cloud agents, but its desktop app is listed for macOS and heavier use needs a paid plan.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Factory as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
SWE-agent
An open-source agent that takes a GitHub issue and tries to fix it using a language model of your choice.
Factory offers paid, enterprise-oriented Droid agents across desktop, web and CLI with model choice, rather than a free open-source research setup.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
CodeRabbit
An AI code review service that comments on pull requests with line-by-line suggestions and chat.
Qodo
An AI code review service that checks pull requests and IDE changes against full codebase context.
Greptile
An AI code reviewer that indexes your whole codebase and comments on pull requests.
Vibe Kanban
A Kanban board for planning, running and reviewing work done by AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex.
Claude Squad
A terminal app for running several AI coding agents at once, each in its own workspace.
Bito
A service that routes coding-agent requests to suitable models and adds codebase context to cut costs.
