Droid CLI vs. IBM Bob

Feature	Droid CLI	IBM Bob

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Your AI SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) partner from IBM
Website	https://factory.ai	https://bob.ibm.com
Language	typescript	javascript
Release Date	May 28, 2025	September 2, 2025
Last Updated	June 3, 2026	May 20, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
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	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	Bob IDE
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0	#12 · 77.3% ±2.2 ¹
Supported Models	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.	Multi-provider (IBM-managed)
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free / $20-200/mo
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/IBM/ibm-bob
Development State	active	active