Codewhale vs. Droid CLI

Feature	Codewhale	Droid CLI

Tagline	Community-driven coding agent that runs a different model per role	Agent-native software development in your terminal
Website	https://codewhale.net/	https://factory.ai
Language	rust	typescript
Release Date	January 19, 2026	May 28, 2025
Last Updated	September 4, 2026	June 29, 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	Editors via ACP (registry submission pending)	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	30+ providers: DeepSeek, Claude, GPT, Kimi, GLM, Qwen, Grok, Mistral, Xiaomi MiMo, Alibaba Model Studio, SiliconFlow, OpenCode Zen, Hugging Face; local via vLLM, SGLang, Ollama	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT SuperGrok	ChatGPT Claude Code
Pricing Model	Free, BYOK	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK)	$20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (MIT)	Source Available (Proprietary)
Source Code	https://github.com/Hmbown/CodeWhale	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory
Development State	active	active