Droid CLI vs fx (by Vercel)

Feature	Droid CLI	fx (by Vercel)

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Tiny, open, embeddable, native coding agent by Vercel.
Website	https://factory.ai	https://fx.sh
Language	typescript	zig
Release Date	May 28, 2025	August 17, 2026
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	No
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	None - Terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench	#9 · 77.3% ±2.2 (Terminal-Bench 2.0) ¹
Supported Models	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.	All Vercel AI Gateway supported models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, z.AI, Moonshot, etc
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT Claude Code	-
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free, BYOK, Usage Based
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	$20-200/mo	0 - $20 / mo / Custom (Vercel AI Gateway)
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/vercel-labs/fx
Development State	active	active