Droid CLI vs. Poolside Agent CLI

Feature	Droid CLI	Poolside Agent CLI

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Work with Poolside Agents from your terminal
Website	https://factory.ai	https://docs.poolside.ai/cli/pool
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	May 28, 2025	October 25, 2025
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	June 25, 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	No
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	Poolside Assistant, VS Code, Visual Studio
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	No
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
Context Window	Model-dependent	(Point) 64K - 128K (Malibu, Laguna)
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.	Laguna M.1, Laguna XS.2, Malibu, Point and OpenRouter with over 300+ supported models.
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT Claude Code	—
Pricing Model	Freemium	Subscription
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	$0, Enterprise
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/poolsideai/pool
Development State	active	active