Factory Droidvsgoose
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Factory Droid
Factory · Terminal agent
#65MCP
Panel
6.40 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.5
- Usefulness
- 7.0
- Cost
- 5.7
- Longevity
- 6.5
“Charges $200 a month for the Max plan and still governs you with rolling rate limits, so the ceiling is the product.”
goose
Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) · Terminal agent
#13OSSMCP
Panel
6.85 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.3
- Usefulness
- 6.5
- Cost
- 6.8
- Longevity
- 7.3
“Block gave it to the Linux Foundation, which is the one exit strategy that cannot be un-acquired.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Factory Droid | goose |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Terminal agent | Terminal agent |
| Runs | local, cloud, sandbox | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows, web | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | Yes |
| Git operations | Yes | Yes |
| Browser control | YesThe first-party Droid Control plugin (droid plugin install droid-control@factory-plugins) ships an `agent-browser` driver - a Playwright-backed CLI with Chrome DevTools Protocol support that navigates, fills forms, clicks and captures screenshots, powering /qa-test and /demo. | YesThe built-in Computer Controller extension drives macOS apps including the browser through the Peekaboo CLI, rather than via a dedicated CDP or Playwright tool. |
| Sandboxed execution | YesOS-level sandboxing isolates Droid from the filesystem and network using kernel-enforced policies (https://docs.factory.ai/autonomy-and-safety/sandbox.md). | Yes`goose session|run --container <id>` executes extensions inside an existing Docker container; goose itself runs unsandboxed on the host otherwise. |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-source and local models via BYOK | Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama (local), OpenRouter, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock |
| Bring your own model | YesCustom models via `anthropic`, `openai` or `generic-chat-completion-api` providers with your own baseUrl and apiKey, plus an AWS Bedrock block with awsRegion/awsProfile. | Yes |
| Local models | YesBYOK config in ~/.factory/settings.json takes a baseUrl, so Ollama (http://localhost:11434/v1), LM Studio (http://localhost:1234/v1) and vLLM are all documented targets. | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | subscription | byok |
| Starts at | $20/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | No | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | No | Yes |
| License | proprietary | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 41 | 54,860 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Factory Droid | goose | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.3 | 7.3 | no preference |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.5 | goose — A local agent with terminal execution whose Docker isolation is a --container flag you have to remember, a foundation instead of a vendor, and a bill that depends entirely on which model you point it at. |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 6.5 | Factory Droid — Droid's 58.8% Terminal-Bench result names the model and the leaderboard, which is more than most vendors manage, and its harness design is documented in hooks, MCP and Missions. |
| La Inversora | 7.0 | 5.3 | Factory Droid — Factory is selling to the org chart, with Slack, Teams, a Teams tier and Enterprise custom, and that is the buyer who tolerates rate limits, so the pricing ladder is a feature. |
| La Jefa | 6.5 | 5.8 | Factory Droid — Sixty seats on Teams is about $2,460 a month plus a rate limit nobody can budget, but the headless CI mode and Slack integration are the shape a team actually adopts. |
| El Hacker | 4.8 | 9.3 | goose — Rust, Apache-2.0, every extension an MCP server in YAML, Ollama on my box, a foundation instead of a vendor; this is the one I would build if I had the time. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.