Factory vs OpenHands
A side-by-side comparison of Factory and OpenHands, two Agent tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
Compared from listings verified as of
At a glance
The honest brief
Factory
Model-agnostic 'Droids' run as both cloud and local background agents from one CLI — frontier or open-weight models.
- Droids plan, edit, and run tasks autonomously
- Runs agents in the background
- Works across a whole codebase
- CLI/SDK driven
- Paid-only, no free tier
- Enterprise-oriented onboarding
- Autonomy needs careful review on large repos
OpenHands
Leading open-source, self-hostable Devin-style SWE agent — read the code, swap any model, run your own sandbox.
- Browser, terminal, and editor in a sandbox
- Inspect and modify the full codebase
- Model-agnostic (Claude/GPT/Gemini/local)
- Active research community and benchmarks
- Setup heavier than hosted rivals
- Autonomy still hit-or-miss on complex tasks
- Sandbox infra adds compute cost
- Less polished than commercial peers