What are the best alternatives to Factory?

By OpenRouter usage, the closest alternatives are Kilo Code, Claude Code, and Cline. Head-to-head comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.

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Factory

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OpenRouter rank

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not in tracked usage yet

Tokens / day

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awaiting usage

Usage

OpenRouter token volume

latest Aug 17, 2026

source: OpenRouter app rankings · summed across the tool's apps · daily

2.5B on Aug 17, 2026

Pricing

Subscription plans

Latest captured subscription plans for Factory.
Plan	$/mo	Notes
PO	—	Desktop / CLI / SDK · Cloud & local background agents · Track billing and usage statistics · Agent-readiness dashboard
Team	—	Dedicated onboarding and support · Single Sign-On (SSO) integration · SAML/SCIM provisioning · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) · Audit logging and activity trails · Basic admin controls (model selection, autonomy level, model access controls, org-level deny lists, network policy) · Multiple team members up to 150 seats · Custom usage limits
Enterprise	—	Dedicated compute with partitioned inference pool · Agent-readiness Improvement Program · Enterprise-specific automation cookbook · On-premise deployment options · Sub-organizations · Full admin controls · Customer-managed encryption keys · Data residency · Dedicated Account Manager and Customer Engineer · Priority support with SLAs · Custom onboarding program · Unlimited team members

source: factory.ai/pricing

captured Aug 12, 2026

Change history

Aug 12, 2026
Factory plans changed: Team limits changed; added PO; removed Plan1
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Jul 26, 2026
Factory plans changed: added Plan1, Team, Enterprise; removed Agent-native, multi-platform experience, ~5x the usage of Pro, ~10x the usage of Pro, Tailored for your team, Enterprise scale
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Changelog

Releases

changelog feed pending — releases appear after the next ingest

source: docs.factory.ai/changelog

Adoption

GitHub & package growth

GitHub stars

no GitHub repo tracked for this entity

Package downloads/day

no package registry tracked for this entity

Community

Reddit pulse

30-day · to Aug 21, 2026

Mentions/day

Sentiment split

Droid Tracker updated for Stellar & Pathway 5r/StarWarsDroidTycoon · 7 pts
Droid customization changer/StarWarsDroidTycoon · 9 pts
TIFU by spending trillions of credits for Stellar droid missionsr/ · — pts

source: Reddit mentions across coding subreddits · sentiment auto-classified

latest Aug 21, 2026

Benchmarks

Benchmark results

Benchmark scores for Factory.
Benchmark	Configuration	Score	Date	Source
SWE-bench Lite	factory code droid	31.3%	Jun 17, 2024	swebench-experiments
swe-bench-test	factory code droid	19.3%	Jun 17, 2024	swebench-experiments
SWE-bench Verified	factory code droid	37%	Jun 17, 2024	swebench-experiments

scores as published by each benchmark; configurations differ — compare within a row's benchmark only

Similar tools

Alternatives to Factory by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity.
#	Tool	Tokens/day	7d Δ	Head-to-head
3	Kilo CodeKilo Code	325B	22.1%	vs Factory
4	Claude CodeAnthropic	289B	5.8%	vs Factory
5	ClineCline Bot Inc.	208.8B	18.1%	vs Factory
6	piEarendil Works (Mario Zechner)	183.9B	32.6%	vs Factory

ranked by OpenRouter usage-rank proximity

snapshot Aug 20, 2026

FAQ

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What are the best alternatives to Factory?: By OpenRouter usage, the closest alternatives are Kilo Code, Claude Code, and Cline. Head-to-head comparisons are linked in the alternatives table.

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