Droid CLI vs. VT Code

Feature	Droid CLI	VT Code

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	Semantic AI coding agent with LLM-native code understanding
Website	https://factory.ai	https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode
Language	typescript	rust
Release Date	May 28, 2025	September 12, 2025
Last Updated	June 3, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
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	VS Code, Zed, Cursor, Windsurf
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent; auto-summarization
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.	API compatible models for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Z.AI, Ollama, LM Studio and 400+ models on OpenRouter
Pricing Model	Freemium	BYOK
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free (BYOK)
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (MIT)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/vinhnx/vtcode
Development State	active	active