Agentic Index
Augment Code vs Factory (2026)
Augment and Factory both target serious engineering organizations, from different angles. 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.
| At a glance | Augment Code | Factory |
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| Category | Coding agent | Coding agent |
| Entry price | From $100/mo flat · Business (up to 50 seats) | Pro $20/mo · Plus $100/mo · Max $200/mo (usage-credit model; free Droid Core pool; prepaid Extra Usage $10 min) · Teams/Enterprise custom |
| Free / trial | Free tier | n/p |
| Pricing confidence | public partial | public partial |
| Feature |
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| 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 (June 2026) introduces an agentic SDLC platform with specialized agents coordinating across triage, spec, implementation, review, testing, deployment, and feedback. |
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. |
Partial | Partial |
| 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 | Partial |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
Full / Explicit
Cosmos (June 2026) introduces shared memory across coordinating agents in the agentic SDLC platform. |
Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
No / Not documented | 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 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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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 |
| 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. |
Partial | 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 |
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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 | Full / Explicit |
| 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 | Full / Explicit |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $100/mo flat · Business (up to 50 seats) | Pro $20/mo · Plus $100/mo · Max $200/mo (usage-credit model; free Droid Core pool; prepaid Extra Usage $10 min) · Teams/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 |
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.