# CodeHerder vs Factory

Factory vs CodeHerder: sourced and dated. Factory now offers the same customer-owned-compute story CodeHerder does, narrowing their difference.

Source: https://codeherder.com/compare/factory/

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An SDLC-wide agent platform for mid to large organizations, including Droid Computers: persistent, remotely orchestrated machines you can register yourself.

Verified against the vendor's own published materials.

## What Factory actually ships

- Agent-native coverage across the SDLC: signals, planning, and implementation, not just code generation
- Governance built for mid and large orgs: SSO/SAML/SCIM, audit logging, on-prem capable
- Droid Computers: persistent machines orchestrated in Factory's cloud or on your own registered hardware, with filesystem, credentials, and config persisted
- A WebSocket tunnel instead of exposed SSH, auto-pause when idle, and BYOK local models via Ollama or vLLM

## Where it's strong

- Droid Computers now offers the same customer-owned-compute story CodeHerder does, on top of a more vertically integrated, SDLC-wide product
- Strong enterprise governance credentials out of the box

## How CodeHerder differs

- CodeHerder treats a BYO-device herd as the default economics, not an add-on, with per-turn cost attribution and workspace tenancy across a nested group and workspace tree
- Factory is a more vertically integrated single product; CodeHerder stays agent-neutral across harnesses

> Factory now offers the same customer-owned-compute story CodeHerder does, narrowing a real differentiation between the two.

Capability snapshot

## CodeHerder vs Factory, capability by capability

Every row traces to the same source as [the full matrix](https://codeherder.com/compare), where the full legend lives. In short: "not published" means no public evidence was found, not that the feature is absent. Verified as of 2026-08-08.

Capability comparison between CodeHerder and Factory across 20 capabilities, current as of 2026-08-08.

| Capability | CodeHerder | Factory |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Concurrent agents | Published | Published |
| Multi-vendor harnesses | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) [[1]](https://codeherder.com/compare/factory/#fn1) |
| Customer-owned machines | Published | Published |
| Multi-machine routing | Published | Published |
| Automatic work assignment | Published | Published |
| Capability-based routing | Published | Published |
| Atomic claiming | Published | Unverified |
| Dependencies | Published | Partial |
| Custom workflows | Published | Partial |
| Server-enforced gates | Published | Unverified |
| Agent handoffs | Published | Partial |
| Persistent shared memory | Published | Unverified |
| Live terminal / view | Published | Unverified |
| Human takeover / steer | Published | Unverified |
| Cost per task | Published | Unverified |
| Cost per stage/model | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Hard $ cap | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) |
| Schedules | Published | Unverified |
| Webhooks / API / CLI | Published | Unverified |
| Self-host full platform | Published (Enterprise) | Partial (Droid Computers only) |

1. Factory (Droids), Devin, and Claude Code Agent Teams are each vertically integrated — the product's whole thesis is a single vendor's own agent(s), so "multi-vendor harness support" isn't just unpublished, it's outside the product's own stated shape. Still written as "not published" rather than a claim of proven absence, per this tree's own rule.

## Sources

Verified against Factory's own site as of 2026-08-08.

- Factory's Droid Computers product page
- Factory's enterprise page

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