Droid CLI vs. Plandex

Feature	Droid CLI	Plandex

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Open source AI coding agent for large projects and real world tasks
Website	https://factory.ai	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	May 28, 2025	March 14, 2024
Last Updated	June 3, 2026	June 11, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	No
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	deep
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	None - terminal only
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	No
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	2M tokens effective
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.	Any OpenAI-compatible models and 400+ models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free (self-hosted)
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex
Development State	active	inactive