Droid CLI vs Vix

Feature	Droid CLI	Vix

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Sleek, Fast and Token Efficient AI Coding Agent
Website	https://factory.ai	https://getvix.dev
Language	typescript	go
Release Date	May 28, 2025	June 1, 2026
Last Updated	June 29, 2026	August 19, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	shallow
Multi-File Editing	Yes	No
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	N/A
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	No
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.	Anthropic Models (Opus 4.8 / 4.7 / 4.6), OpenAI (GPT-5.1 / o3 / 4o), MiniMax, Xiaomin MiMo and 300+ Models on OpenRouter.
Supported Subscriptions	ChatGPT Claude Code	Claude Code ChatGPT
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	No
Price Range	$20-200/mo	$0
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (AGPL-3.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/kirby88/vix
Development State	active	active