Factory AI

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.

It is aimed primarily at developers and teams that want an agent embedded in their coding environment rather than a standalone chat app. The docs show integration with Zed, support for model selection, and optional MCP-style context servers, which suggests it is designed to work with external tools and developer workflows.

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 real cost depends on which models you use and how often cache is reused.

The product is clearly agentic, but the documentation shown here does not prove fully autonomous behavior end-to-end. It looks more like a copilot or semi-autonomous coding agent that can operate inside tools like Zed and connect to external context servers. Pricing is public, but details such as privacy controls, enterprise governance, and the full model stack are not fully clear from the provided pages.