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AI Tool Comparison

Comparing as AI Code Generation & Autocomplete
Factory vs Augment Code

Factory

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Augment Code

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Pricing
FreemiumFactory offers five tiers. Pro is $20/month for individuals, including desktop, CLI, and SDK access, cloud and local background agents, and a billing/usage dashboard. Plus is $100/month with roughly 5x the usage of Pro plus Droid Computers, Factory-managed cloud computers for remote Droids. Max is $200/month with roughly 10x the usage of Pro and early access to new features. Business is custom-priced for growing teams up to 150 seats, adding custom usage limits, dedicated onboarding, SSO, SAML/SCIM provisioning, Zero Data Retention, audit logging, and basic admin controls. Enterprise is custom-priced with unlimited team members, dedicated compute with a partitioned inference pool, an Agent-readiness Improvement Program, on-premise deployment, sub-organizations, full admin controls, customer-managed encryption keys, data residency, and a dedicated account manager with SLA-backed support.
PaidAugment Code uses a usage-based pricing model with two tiers. The Business plan costs $100/month flat for up to 50 seats. This includes $100 of pooled monthly usage across LLM inference (billed at provider list price + 40% service fee), Context Engine API calls, and Cosmos compute. Usage is shared across the whole team. Top-ups are available pay-as-you-go at any time; top-ups expire 12 months after purchase. The Enterprise plan has custom pricing for teams over 50 seats. It adds custom usage limits and top-up rates, volume-based annual discounts, SSO/OIDC/SCIM, Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK), ISO/IEC 42001 compliance, SIEM integration, data residency options, granular audit trails, multi-region compute, unlimited concurrent sessions, and a dedicated customer success manager with priority support. All paid plans include a guarantee of no AI training on customer data. A 7-day free trial is available. Previously Augment charged $60/active user/month under a named-seat model before switching to flat/usage-based pricing in October 2025.
Categories
AI Coding Assistants
AI Coding AssistantsAI Productivity ToolsAI Developer APIs & Platforms
Summary
Autonomous Droid agents that build, test, and ship software
AI coding agent with deep Context Engine for large enterprise codebases
Factory

Factory Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Droids execute full tasks (editing files, running commands, opening PRs) rather than just suggesting code
  • Genuinely model-agnostic and interface-agnostic, avoiding lock-in to one IDE or LLM provider
  • #1 ranking on Terminal Bench, a widely used industry benchmark for coding agents
  • Sovereign deployment options including on-premise and air-gapped environments for regulated industries
  • Strong enterprise traction with named customers like Nvidia, Adobe, EY, and Morgan Stanley

Cons

  • Best suited to teams with a real backlog of well-specified work and enough review capacity to absorb the resulting pull requests
  • Not ideal for solo developers wanting lightweight autocomplete, or teams whose work is mostly ambiguous product design
  • Business and Enterprise pricing is fully custom, requiring a sales conversation rather than transparent self-serve rates
  • Heavy multi-agent or long-context usage can run up consumption costs quickly on usage-based components
  • As a younger platform (founded 2023), its track record is shorter than more established coding agent competitors
Augment Code

Augment Code Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Deepest codebase context of any AI coding tool — Context Engine indexes 400K+ files with semantic graphs, not just open tabs
  • #1 on SWE-bench Pro at 51.80% (Auggie CLI) — top publicly benchmarked coding agent score at publication
  • First and only AI coding assistant with ISO/IEC 42001 certification alongside SOC 2 Type II and CMEK
  • Usage-based flat pricing ($100/mo for up to 50 seats) is more predictable than per-seat models for variable teams
  • Cosmos platform covers the full SDLC — from ticket to PR, code review, tests, incidents, migrations, and onboarding
  • Trusted by Adobe, MongoDB, Webflow, Snyk, Pure Storage, Crypto.com, Tekion, and DXC across enterprise codebases

Cons

  • No free individual tier — Business plan starts at $100/month with a team minimum; sole developers pay full price for low usage
  • Pricing changed three times in 18 months (2023–2025), causing some developer community backlash and unpredictability concerns
  • IDE support limited to VS Code and JetBrains — no standalone IDE, no Neovim full feature parity, no Visual Studio
  • Closed-source with no self-hosting option — all computation runs on Augment's infrastructure or Enterprise cloud tenants
  • Context Engine first-run indexing takes 15–30 minutes on large repos before initial suggestions become fully accurate
  • Enterprise plan requires sales contact for pricing — no public list price above the Business tier