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Factory vs AOSplane
Factory’s Droids already plan, write, test, and open a pull request. That part is not the comparison. AOSplane’s comparison is what your team receives: a Claude Code or Codex pull request that has already been scoped, reviewed, and QA-tested, with the spec, the review notes, QA’s results, and the cost of that task. Factory meters Droid on rolling rate limits. AOSplane refuses the task if it would cross a hard cap. Prices below are from factory.com/pricing and the individual-plan docs as read on 11 November 2026.
- Hard spend cap per task
- Linear and Jira
- Claude Code and Codex
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The short version
Factory is a good fit when the team wants Droid itself, in the terminal and the IDE as well as in the background, on Factory’s usage windows. AOSplane is a good fit when the people on the team should not be the first reviewers, and when one task should not be able to spend the rest of a shared balance.
Factory’s product page describes one prompt that plans, writes, tests, and opens a pull request, from the terminal, an IDE, the browser, or Slack. AOSplane’s documented starts are a Linear issue, a Jira Cloud issue, the console, and a project API key. Slack is rolling out. This page does not claim Factory lacks a tracker integration the pricing page does not mention.
Where the usage comes from
Individual Factory plans are Pro, Plus, and Max. The pricing page lists Pro at $20 a month, Plus at $100 with about five times Pro’s usage and Factory-managed cloud computers, and Max at $200 with about ten times Pro’s usage. Teams is $60 a month for the team plus $40 a month per seat, up to 10 seats, with centralized billing. Business and Enterprise are tailored. Business lists SSO, SAML and SCIM, zero data retention, audit logs, and admin controls over models, autonomy, and network policy. Enterprise adds data residency, on-premise options, and dedicated compute.
The individual docs meter usage with three rolling windows that run at the same time: 5 hours, 7 days, and 30 days. Standard usage is consumed first. After that, Droid Core is a free open-weight pool with its own windows. Extra usage is prepaid credit, $10 minimum, and it does not expire. A Mission uses the same windows and pauses if it hits one, and it requires extra usage to be on.
Bring-your-own-key is real on Factory, and it is not the same deal as AOSplane’s. The individual docs say BYOK is free up to an allowance on every individual plan, and after that allowance usage is charged according to the plan. On AOSplane the provider bills the account you connected. Factory’s allowance and AOSplane’s provider account are different bills. The comparison here is the cap: Factory’s windows are a shared pace of usage, and an AOSplane task has a hard ceiling of its own.
What “done” means
Factory’s product copy says Droids plan, implement, test, and open the pull request, with an adjustable permission model so you can supervise edits and commands. That is their account of their loop.
AOSplane’s Plan first loop is stricter about the handoff. The product manager writes a spec. You approve it in the console before the agent writes code. A plan nobody decides on expires after 24 hours. Review reads the diff. QA runs your commands and treats the exit code as the result, not the agent’s summary. The draft pull request opens after that gate. Agents cannot push. The merge is a person’s.
Spend is a pre-check, not a window you discover mid-run. The organization limit, the project limit, and the agent limit are compared, and the tightest one is the ceiling. A task whose reservation would pass it does not start. Work already running keeps running. Factory’s windows can pause a Mission when a window is exhausted. Both are limits. They apply to different bills.
Side by side
| Factory, from its pricing docs | AOSplane | |
|---|---|---|
| Harness | Droid, in the app, CLI, SDK, and cloud. | Claude Code or Codex. Preview agents sit beside them. |
| Cap | Rolling windows. BYOK is free up to an allowance, then billed on the plan. | A hard cap on the task. The pull request carries that task’s cost. |
| Team entry | Teams, $60 plus $40 a seat, up to 10 seats. | Free is self-serve. Starter is $39, Team is $149. What each includes. |
| Merge | The product page says a pull request is the output. | A draft. A person merges. Agents cannot push. |
When Factory is the better fit
- You want one harness, Droid, in the IDE and the terminal, not only as a cloud job.
- Rolling rate limits and Factory’s model list are how you want to buy usage.
- A team of up to 10 seats on one Factory bill is the shape of the group.
When AOSplane is the better fit
- Claude Code or Codex should be reviewed and QA-tested before a person on the team is. Claude Code for a team.
- One task should stop at its own cap instead of consuming a rolling window shared with everything else.
- Each client or codebase should have its own project budget. How an agency splits that.
- You want the spend check explained next to Claude Code’s own flags. Session cap, workspace cap, and the AOSplane check.
Factory prices and plan names are from factory.com/pricing. Rate windows, Droid Core, extra usage, and the BYOK allowance are from Factory’s individual plan docs. Both were read on 11 November 2026 and may have changed. Factory is not an AOSplane product.