Agentic Index
Augment Code vs Factory (2026)
Augment and Factory both target serious engineering organizations, from different angles. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Augment's moat is its Context Engine, semantic mapping of very large codebases so agents reason about cross service impact, with SOC 2 and ISO 42001 certification. Factory's moat is orchestration of role specialized Droids around tickets. Augment starts at team level pricing near 100 dollars a month; Factory starts at 20.
On the Agentic Index coding agent ranking, neither Augment Code nor Factory clears the bar, which asks for all five merge loop capabilities documented in full. Neither documents testing, debugging and optimization in full. 2 of the 65 vendors in the lane clear it. See the coding agent ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Augment Code and Factory are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 956 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Augment Code if
- Your codebase is enormous and context is the bottleneck; the Context Engine is built for exactly that.
- ISO 42001 and SOC 2 with VPC deployment satisfy your compliance bar.
- You want the context layer exposed over MCP to strengthen other agents too.
Choose Factory if
- Ticket driven delegation with parallel Droids matches your development process.
- A 20 dollar entry point lets individual engineers prove value before an org rollout.
- Broadest capability coverage in our matrix, including testing and browser use at Full.
| At a glance | Augment Code | Factory |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Coding agent | Coding agent |
| Entry price | From $20 per month flat (Standard, up to 50 seats, $20 of usage included) | Pro $20/mo · Plus $100/mo · Max $200/mo · Teams $60/mo + $40/seat · Business and Enterprise custom |
| Free / trial | No free tier; the pricing page mentions trials without publishing their terms. | No free tier; after Standard Usage runs out, a free Droid Core pool of open weight models keeps working on its own rate limits |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public partial |
| Feature | A Augment Code |
F Factory |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Full / Explicit
Cosmos runs multiple Experts side by side and hands work off through workers, subagents and Expert to Expert delegation. |
Full / Explicit |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit
GitHub pull requests, Linear status changes, Slack messages, PagerDuty incidents, cron schedules and custom webhooks start Cosmos Experts without a person. |
Full / Explicit
Automations start Droid on a schedule, a Slack message, a GitHub event or a webhook, and droid exec runs in GitHub Actions on cron. |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
Full / Explicit |
Full / Explicit
AutoWiki keeps a searchable wiki of each repository's architecture, modules and conventions, regenerated on every push. |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Partial
Expert memory is stored as readable, scoped Markdown, but no lifetime, expiry or purge path is documented. |
Partial
Sessions resume across app, CLI, web and mobile, but no memory layer with a stated scope and lifetime is documented. |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit
By default the IDE agent pauses for the user to approve a terminal command or external integration call, and Cosmos states that every action that matters is approved by a human. |
Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit |
Full / Explicit
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 reports sit in the Trust Center, beside SSO, SCIM, three organization roles and an audit log. |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit
Each Cosmos session records every message, agent turn and tool call, with audit logs to a SIEM and replayable runs. |
Full / Explicit
Each turn exports an OpenTelemetry trace of model calls and tool runs to the customer's collector, and an organization audit log records who did what. |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit |
Full / Explicit
Cloud managed, hybrid and fully airgapped deployment patterns are documented, with an EU pattern and Enterprise data residency, dedicated compute and on premises options named. |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Full / Explicit
Fourteen Template Experts, including PR Author, Deep Reviewer and Incident Investigator, each do their own job. |
Full / Explicit |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Full / Explicit |
Full / Explicit
Customers pick among hosted models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI and Factory, let the Factory Router choose, or bring their own keys and local models under enterprise model policy. |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Partial
A Verifier Expert checks changes against a running environment, but no harness to evaluate or regression test agent behavior is documented. |
Partial
Agent Readiness, review and QA automations test the customer's repository and code, but no harness evaluates Droid's own behavior. |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented |
Partial
Droid Control, an official plugin, operates terminal CLIs, web apps and Electron apps with clicks, typing and screenshots, on runtime tools the customer installs. |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | A Augment Code |
F Factory |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $20 per month flat (Standard, up to 50 seats, $20 of usage included) | Pro $20/mo · Plus $100/mo · Max $200/mo · Teams $60/mo + $40/seat · Business and Enterprise custom |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, partial | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
hybrid | hybrid |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
High variable cost | High variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
No free tierTrial
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No free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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