Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal and IDE: understands the codebase, edits files, runs commands.
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Claude Code vs Factory
Claude Code is provisional S-tier and Factory is provisional A-tier on Terminal Coding Agents. Rankings are never for sale.
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'Droid' coding agents that automate coding, testing and deployment, in CLI, IDE and cloud.
Website| Field | Claude Code | Factory |
|---|---|---|
| Tier | S · provisional | A · provisional |
| Why | Benchmark-setting terminal agent and one of the most-starred coding-agent repos (150k+). | Well-funded agent vendor with a CLI 'Droid' agent; pricing from $20/mo. |
| Pricing | paid (via Claude plans or API) · starts at $20/mo (Claude Pro; $17/mo annual) | paid · starts at $20/mo |
| GitHub stars | 151,056 | — |
| Last push | Oct 15, 2026 | — |
| Last verified | Oct 15, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |