What is Factory?
Factory is listed under Autonomous Coding Agents, in the Code & Development category on Flocci AI Tools. Enterprise 'Droids' across the whole SDLC. It is paid, with no free tier, and it lives at factory.ai.
Paid — no free plan
Paid plans only; there is no free tier. Need it free right now? Try Google Jules →
What Factory does
- Enterprise 'Droids' across the whole SDLC
- Delegate coding, review and migration
- Terminal and cloud execution
- Team and enterprise focus
Factory — straight answers
Is Factory free?
No. Paid plans only; there is no free tier. If you need it free right now, Google Jules does the same job for free. Flocci keeps paid tools out of its free catalog: they appear only in search results when you choose to see them, labelled and paired with a free alternative.
Can I use Factory in a browser, or is there an app?
Factory works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the command line, the web, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, inside another product and an API.
What can Factory do?
Factory does 4 things the catalog singles out: Enterprise 'droids' across the whole sdlc; delegate coding, review and migration; terminal and cloud execution; team and enterprise focus.
What is the best free alternative to Factory?
Google Jules is the best free alternative: it does the same job and you can start without paying. OpenHands, mini-SWE-agent and Open SWE also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
See the full list →Factory alternatives
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Autonomous Coding Agents
- Most autonomous cloud coding agent
- Own IDE, browser, terminal and shell
- Plans, writes, tests and opens PRs
- Now includes Windsurf's team
Google Jules
Autonomous Coding Agents
- Async coding agent that fixes issues & PRs
- Runs in a cloud VM on your repo
- Powered by Gemini
- Free daily tasks
OpenHands
Autonomous Coding Agents
- Self-hosted control center for coding agents with GUI, CLI and SDK surfaces
- Enterprise deployment controls over models, data access and auditability
- MIT licensed, 83.9k GitHub stars, very active commit history
- Roughly 100-line agent that solves GitHub issues or works in your command line
- Bash-only, no special tools; works with any LM via API
- From the Princeton/Stanford SWE-agent team
- Takes a GitHub issue and tries to fix it automatically with your LM of choice
- Research-grade agent-computer interface for repo edits
- MIT-licensed
- Open-source asynchronous coding agent from LangChain
- Works on tasks in the background and opens pull requests
- Bring your own model