# Factory

Agent-native software development platform from Factory AI that uses Droids to plan, write, test, and ship code across the software lifecycle.

- Company: Factory AI
- Category: Coding & Developer Tools
- Business model: Paid
- Availability: global
- Launched: 2023
- Tags: ai-coding, agent, enterprise
- Website: https://factory.ai
- Canonical URL: https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/factory/
- Record updated: 2026-09-04

Factory is an agent-native software development platform from Factory AI. Developers give a Droid a natural-language task and it can plan, write, test, and open a pull request across terminal, VS Code, JetBrains, browser, Slack, or headless CI via Droid Exec. Factory is model-agnostic, routing work across Claude, GPT, and Gemini, and sells primarily to enterprise engineering organizations with SaaS, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped options.

## Key features

- Droids that take a task from prompt to pull request
- Works in terminal, editors, browser, Slack, and CI
- Model-agnostic routing across major frontier models
- Enterprise deployments including on-prem and air-gapped options

## Use cases

- Turning a ticket into a reviewed pull request with an agent
- Running parallel coding missions across a large codebase
- Enterprise SDLC automation with permission and audit controls

## Pricing

Factory is a paid enterprise product. Pricing is sold by Factory and varies by deployment model, including SaaS, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped.

## FAQ

**Who develops Factory?**

Factory is developed by Factory AI, a US company founded in 2023 to bring autonomy to software engineering.

**What is a Droid?**

A Droid is Factory's coding agent. It plans, writes, tests, and ships code from a natural-language task under a permission model.

**Does Factory lock you to one model?**

No. Factory is model-agnostic and can route tasks across Claude, GPT, Gemini, and other supported models.

## Sources

- [Official website](https://factory.ai)
- [Factory 2.0: From coding agents to software factories](https://factory.ai/news/software-factory)

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Data from the [Global AI Product Index](https://globalaiproductindex.com/), licensed CC BY 4.0.