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Factory cost: what you actually pay
Plans ($20/$100/$200) buy a rolling rate-limit allowance across 5-hour/weekly/monthly windows, not a disclosed credit count — Factory publishes no per-unit price, so per third-party audits neither a human nor an agent can estimate what one task will cost before running it.
Public pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro | $20 / mo | monthly | Factory App + Droid CLI + SDK access, baseline rolling rate limits (5-hour/weekly/monthly windows), usage dashboard |
| Plus | $100 / mo | monthly | ~5x Pro's usage capacity, access to Droid Computers (Factory-managed remote cloud environments) |
| Max | $200 / mo | monthly | ~10x Pro's usage capacity, early access to new features |
| Business | CustomSupports up to 150 seats; per-seat rate not published, contact sales | custom | Custom usage limits, dedicated onboarding, SSO, SAML/SCIM, zero data retention, audit logging |
| Enterprise | Custom | custom | Unlimited team members, dedicated partitioned compute, on-premise deployment, customer-managed encryption keys, dedicated account manager |
No free tier as of mid-2026 — Pro at $20/mo is the cheapest self-serve entry point. Usage is metered as rolling rate-limit windows (5-hour, weekly, monthly) rather than a disclosed credit or token count. After standard usage and the free 'Droid Core' (open-source model) allowance are exhausted, users can buy prepaid 'Extra Usage' credits (minimum $10 purchase, credits never expire), but Factory does not publish the underlying $/token or $/task conversion rate.
Last updated: 2026-07-22. Sourced from Factory Pricing (official) ↗, Factory Docs — Plans & Pricing ↗.
Where the real Factory cost hides
The sticker is the smallest part of the story. For Factory, these are the line items that quietly inflate the bill:
- No published per-unit or per-task price — a third-party agent-readiness audit scored Factory 42/100 specifically because cost of a single task can't be estimated in advance
- Higher tiers are sold as a usage multiplier ('~5x', '~10x') rather than a defined quota, making it hard to know when Plus/Max is actually needed until you hit a wall
- Extra Usage top-ups are prepaid credits at an undisclosed $/token rate — a black-box refill
- No free tier means every evaluation or trial task is billed from the first prompt
What an audit finds on Factory
Because usage is rationed by opaque rolling rate-limit windows rather than metered credits, teams tend to over-buy Max ($200/mo) preemptively to avoid mid-sprint lockout, then still hit paid Extra Usage top-ups when a background/cloud Droid runs a long unattended job.
Factory pricing FAQ
How much does a single Droid task cost?
Factory doesn't publish a per-task or per-token rate; usage draws down against rolling 5-hour/weekly/monthly rate-limit windows sized to your plan, and Extra Usage credits (min $10) fill gaps at an undisclosed rate.
Is there a free plan?
No. The cheapest self-serve tier is Pro at $20/month; there is no perpetual free tier, only the 'Droid Core' open-source-model fallback once paid limits are exhausted.
What is Factory really costing you?
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