Factory AI
A coding agent platform with metered model usage
Factory provides Droid, an AI agent you can use in coding workflows and IDE integrations like Zed. It connects through login or API key setup and charges usage with Standard Tokens across multiple models.
Agenticness = how independently a tool can take action, scored across 9 dimensions. Scored independently by David Kooi, Skylark Creations — see full rubric → Last re-evaluated 31 July 2026.
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- Score changeAgenticness score 15 → 18 ↑15 → 18/36(+3)
- Score changeAgenticness score 8 → 15 ↑8 → 15/36(+7)
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Factory is an AI agent platform focused on software development workflows. Based on the documentation, it exposes a product called Droid that can be connected to Zed through an extension or manual configuration, and it also supports API-key based access for setup outside the browser login flow.
Factory appears to be a cloud-hosted service with usage-based accounting built around Standard Tokens, not a simple flat-price subscription. The pricing docs list Free, Pro, and Max plans, plus model-specific multipliers and cache-based billing, so...
Handles domain-specific workflows independently with dynamic replanning.
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- Free: BYOK; $0/month
- Pro ($20/mo): 20 million Standard Tokens per month
- Max ($200/mo): 200 million Standard Tokens per month
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