Droid by Factory
Overview
Factory's software-engineering agent 'Droid', used through the Droid CLI (terminal UI with approvals, MCP, hooks, plugins and multi-agent Missions), a desktop app, an IDE extension, an SDK and headless `droid exec` for CI.
Droid was downloaded 9,261 times from npm in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, down 11.5% on the week before and down 23.3% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. Its VS Code extension has 39.5K installs and average 3.9 out of 5 across 10 marketplace ratings. The GitHub repository has 44 stars, 29 of them added in the last 30 days. On Terminal-Bench 2.0 its best listed result is 77.3% with GPT-5.3-Codex, ranking 9 of 43 agents on that board.
Droid usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: droid.csv
Install Droid
| npm | npm install -g droid |
|---|---|
| Homebrew | brew install --cask droid |
| VS Code | code --install-extension Factory.factory-vscode-extension |
These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | Factory |
|---|---|
| Type | Terminal agent + desktop app |
| License | Proprietary |
| Interfaces | CLI, Desktop, IDE extension, SDK |
| Platforms | macOS, Linux, Windows |
| Open issues and PRs | 35 |
| Open VSX downloads | 10,410 (includes updates) |
| Homebrew installs | 89 in 30 days · 4,196 in a year |
Pricing
Pro $20/month, Plus $100/month (~5x Pro usage), Max $200/month (~10x), Teams $60/month per team plus $40/month per seat; Business and Enterprise by contact.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 5, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
Droid benchmark results
| Benchmark | Model | Effort | Tasks solved | Cost of run | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | GPT-5.3-Codex | — | 77.3% ± 2.2 | — | #9 of 43 |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | — | 69.9% ± 2.5 | — | ||
| GPT-5.2 | — | 64.9% ± 2.8 | — | ||
| Claude Opus 4.5 | — | 63.1% ± 2.7 | — |
Up to four best runs per board. Scores are not comparable between Terminal-Bench versions. Source: Terminal-Bench (tbench.ai).
Reliability
From the vendor's public status page · now: All Systems Operational
1 incidents reported in the last 30 days, 1 of them major or critical, 0.2 hours in total from report to resolution.
| Sep 18, 2026 | Service Disruption: User Authentication · critical |
|---|---|
| Aug 25, 2026 | GLM 5.2 unavailable in our EU deployment · major |
| Aug 19, 2026 | DeepSeek V4 Flash Degraded · major |
| Aug 11, 2026 | Degraded Minimax M3 availability · minor |
| Aug 7, 2026 | OpenAI Models Returning 431 Errors · minor |
| Aug 1, 2026 | Missions API entitlement mismatch · minor |
Droid alternatives
| # | Agent | Pulse | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | VS Code installs | Stars | Latest release | Price | Last 90 days | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
OpenAI CodexOpenAI |
82 | 25.6M | up 5.7% | up 21.2% | 15.2M | 128K+153/day | 0.160.1yesterday | Free + $8/mo | ||
| 3 |
Claude CodeAnthropic |
80 | 14.8M | up 11.6% | down 36.4% | 27.1M | 150K+161/day | 2.1.290yesterday | $20/mo | ||
| 5 |
PiEarendil Inc. (created by Mario Zechner) |
75 | 5.2M | up 29.8% | up 52.1% | — | 113K+378/day | 1.0.4yesterday | Free (OSS) | ||
| 7 |
OpenCodeAnomaly (SST team) |
73 | 3.3M | up 22.0% | up 6.1% | 1.2M | 212K+200/day | 1.18.346d ago | Free + $10/mo | ||
| 24 |
Gemini CLIGoogle |
57 | 453K | up 4.7% | up 1.8% | 1.1M | 107K+24/day | 0.62.07d ago | Varies | ||
| 26 |
Oh My PiStencil Labs (Can Bölük) |
56 | 241K | up 11.4% | up 53.9% | — | 34.4K+111/day | 18.6.12d ago | Free (OSS) | ||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
Droid FAQ
How much does Droid cost?
Pro $20/month, Plus $100/month (~5x Pro usage), Max $200/month (~10x), Teams $60/month per team plus $40/month per seat; Business and Enterprise by contact.
Is Droid open source?
No. Droid is a proprietary product from Factory.
How popular is Droid?
Droid was downloaded 9,261 times from npm in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, down 11.5% on the week before and down 23.3% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. Its VS Code extension has 39.5K installs and average 3.9 out of 5 across 10 marketplace ratings. The GitHub repository has 44 stars, 29 of them added in the last 30 days.
What are the alternatives to Droid?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Pi, OpenCode.
Where these numbers come from
npm: droid. GitHub: Factory-AI/factory. VS Code Marketplace: Factory.factory-vscode-extension. Homebrew: droid. Site rank: factory.com on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: docs.factory.com, factory.com, registry.npmjs.org, formulae.brew.sh, marketplace.visualstudio.com, open-vsx.org, github.com.