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Factory (Droids)

Factory

factory.ai(vendor site, opens in a new tab)
“Factory Droids automate coding, testing and deployment for startups and enterprises; also ships code review and a living AutoWiki per repository.”
Claim quoted from Factory, factory.ai

Phase coverage

  1. Plan and specify: not covered
  2. Design and architecture: not covered
  3. Write code: primary phase
  4. Code review: covered
  5. Test and QA: covered
  6. Security: not covered
  7. CI/CD and release: not covered
  8. Deploy and infrastructure: covered
  9. Operate: covered
  10. Maintain and modernize: covered
  11. Code understanding and knowledge: covered
  12. Engineering intelligence: not covered
  13. Developer portals and platform: not covered

Primary: Write code. Also covers Code review, Test and QA, Deploy and infrastructure, Operate, Code understanding and knowledge, Maintain and modernize.

Facts

Customers
Blackstone, Groq3
Traction
Not published
Go-to-market partners
OpenAI marketplace1
Pricing model
subscription plus usage4
Entry price
Pro $20/month5
Deployment
saas, on-prem7
Models
GPT-5, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, open-weight models6
Open source
Not published
Compliance
Not published
Interface
cli, ide, web, slack
Target buyer
eng leader, developer
Autonomy
Autonomous
Founded
Not published
Headquarters
Not published
Headcount
Not published
Funding total
Not published
Last round
$200M at a $5B valuation; Khosla Ventures, Blackstone, Sequoia (2026)9

Relations

Partners with (1)

Competes with (1)

Sources

  1. 1. Go-to-market partners

  2. 2. One-line claim

  3. 3. Customers

  4. 4. Pricing model

  5. 5. Entry price

  6. 6. Models

  7. 7. Deployment

  8. 8. Relations

  9. 9. Last round