Blackbox AI CLI vs. Droid CLI

Feature	Blackbox AI CLI	Droid CLI

Tagline	Feature-rich AI coding agent in your terminal	Agent-native software development in your terminal
Website	https://www.blackbox.ai/cli	https://factory.ai
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	September 20, 2025	May 28, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	June 3, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	35+ IDE integrations including VS Code, JetBrains	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model Dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0		#12 · 77.3% ±2.2 ²
Supported Models	400+ models including Opus, GPT, Gemini, Qwen, GLM, Grok, Minimax (free), Mimo, Llama, Kimi, Mistral, DeepSeek	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK) / $10-40/mo	$20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (GPL-3.0)	Source Available (Proprietary)
Source Code	https://github.com/blackboxaicode/cli	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory
Development State	active	active