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CodeHerder vs Factory
An SDLC-wide agent platform for mid to large organizations, including Droid Computers: persistent, remotely orchestrated machines you can register yourself.
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, 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 | CodeHerder | Factory |
|---|---|---|
| Concurrent agents | Published | Published |
| Multi-vendor harnesses | Published | Not published (as of 2026-08-08) [1] |
| 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) |
- 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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