Droid CLI vs. Snowflake Cortex CLI

Feature	Droid CLI	Snowflake Cortex CLI

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Snowflake-native AI coding agent for data engineering
Website	https://factory.ai	https://snowflake.com/en/product/features/cortex-code/
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	May 28, 2025	February 2, 2026
Last Updated	June 3, 2026	April 28, 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	No
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	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.	Snowflake managed models - Claude Opus / Sonnet, GPT 5.2
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free trial / $20/mo
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Proprietary Software
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	N/A
Development State	active	active