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Factory+22 Positive

GILD Review

GILD's call and the buying facts behind it.

From GILD research

Should we adopt Factory?

How should your team test Factory's benchmark claims before it standardizes on Droid?

  1. 30-Second TakePick Factory if you want several vendors' models behind one agent and one policy, from laptops to CI.
  2. Best fitTeams that want Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open-weight models behind one agent, with policy enforced the same way on laptops, CI runners, and cloud machines.GILD Review
  3. Consider another workflowIf one vendor's models are enough, Codex comes inside ChatGPT plans and Claude Code inside Claude plans, with no separate agent seat to buy.GILD Review

Drawn from 103 sources and 3 operator insights

GILD analysis

Factory Review

Standardize on Factory when your engineers need models from several vendors behind one coding agent, Droid, under one policy in terminals, IDEs, CI, and chat. Admins set model policy, autonomy ceilings, sandboxing, and a deployment from Factory-hosted to air-gapped once for everyone. The cost is predictability: usage draws down rolling rate limits at per-model rates, and every change still needs human review.

  • AI Coding Agents
  • Agentic Development

The decision

Best fit
Teams that want Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open-weight models behind one agent, with policy enforced the same way on laptops, CI runners, and cloud machines.
Consider another workflow
If one vendor's models are enough, Codex comes inside ChatGPT plans and Claude Code inside Claude plans, with no separate agent seat to buy.
Adoption condition
Write a model and BYOK policy. Set a maximum autonomy level. Commit AGENTS.md to each repository. Turn on branch protection so a human approves every merge.

Basis: Factory documentation and published pricing, and the Terminal-Bench 2.0 leaderboard. On that leaderboard, Droid with Claude Opus 4.5 scored 63.1%, and Terminus 2, the benchmark's own reference agent, scored 57.8% on the same model. Factory's other benchmark figures are vendor-reported.

Buying & deployment factsWhat engineering leaders should verify before a broader rollout.
How you buy it

US$20

A month for Pro. Teams is US$60 a month plus US$40 a seat, up to 10 seats.

Source 1, Factory, Individual Plans: Individual PlansSource 2, Factory, Organization Plans: Organization Plans

Details

Pro US$20 or Max US$200 per month for one developer, with Plus between them. Teams costs US$60 per month plus US$40 per seat for up to 10 seats, billed month to month. Business and Enterprise are custom contracts through sales.

Cost drivers

0.04× to 12×

The per-model rate against 5-hour, 7-day, and 30-day limits. Claude Opus 5.5 is 1.6×.

Source 1, Factory, Individual Plans: Individual PlansSource 2, Factory, Organization Plans: Organization PlansSource 5, Factory, Available models: Available models

Details

Pro, Plus, Max, and Teams seats draw on rolling 5-hour, 7-day, and 30-day rate limits at a per-model rate. Rates range from 0.04× for GPT-6 Luna to 12× for GPT-5.5 Pro, with Claude Opus 5.5 at 1.6×. GPT-5.6 Sol bills at a promotional 1.6× and its Fast mode at 3.2× through Nov 22, 2026, then 2× and 4×. Past a limit, switch free to Droid Core open-weight models or buy prepaid Extra Usage from US$10. Missions require Extra Usage.

Where it runs

Local, CI, cloud

The Droid CLI, desktop app, and IDEs, headless in CI, and on Factory-managed machines.

Source 6, docs.factory.com, Factory App quickstart: Factory App quickstartSource 7, Factory, Droid Exec: Droid ExecSource 8, docs.factory.com, Droid Computers: Droid ComputersSource 9, Factory, Delegations: DelegationsSource 3, Factory, Deployment Patterns: Deployment Patterns

Details

Locally in the Droid CLI and the Factory App for macOS and Windows. Headless in CI through droid exec, on Factory-managed Droid Computers, and from Slack, Linear, Jira, or Teams. Deployments run Factory Managed, Factory Private with sandboxes in your VPC through OpenCompute, the dedicated EU deployment, or a Custom Deployment when policy rules out a Factory-hosted control plane.

What to verify

Business and up

SSO, SCIM, and zero data retention start at Business. GitLab or GHES needs Enterprise.

Source 2, Factory, Organization Plans: Organization PlansSource 9, Factory, Delegations: DelegationsSource 5, Factory, Available models: Available modelsSource 10, factory.com, Security: SecuritySource 11, factory.com, Factory achieves SOC 2 certification (April 8, 2024): Factory achieves SOC 2 certification (April 8, 2024)

Details

SSO, SCIM, zero data retention, and audit logging start at Business. Delegations needs a Manager or Owner to set it up on any paid plan, and custom models (BYOK) and model policy sit in org-managed settings. Factory's security page lists SOC 2, ISO 42001, and CCPA. The SOC 2 report Factory has announced is Type I, on April 8, 2024, and Factory describes ISO 42001 as a standard it adopted.