Factory AI pricing: what Pro, Plus, Max and Teams buy you in Droid

Factory AI pricing starts at $20 a month for Pro, with Plus at $100 and Max at $200 for individuals, and a Teams plan at $60 a month per team plus $40 per seat. What each tier really buys is usage headroom inside Droid's rolling limits, so the price only makes sense next to a way of watching those limits, which is where the free UsageAtlas desktop tracker comes in.

Prices below were checked on Factory's pricing page and docs in October 2026. Factory moved its site from factory.ai to factory.com, and the old address now redirects.

The plans at a glance

Factory's FAQ says every plan includes all its products: the IDE, web, CLI and Slack. Business brings SSO, SCIM provisioning, zero data retention and audit logs; Enterprise adds options such as on-premise deployment and data residency.

What the money buys

On Pro, Plus and Max, Factory measures your work in Standard Credits. Every model has a multiplier on Factory's models page, so a heavy frontier model burns credits faster than a light one. The credits are capped by three rolling windows, 5-hour, 7-day and 30-day, and a request needs room in all three.

Upgrading from Pro to Plus or Max widens those windows. It does not change how they work. That is why the right tier depends less on features and more on how often your current windows fill up.

Costs beyond the plan price

Three things can change what you actually pay or get:

• Droid Core. A pool of open-weight models with its own Rate Limits. Switching to it after the Standard pool is spent costs nothing extra.
• Extra Usage. Prepaid USD credit for when you want to stay on standard models past a limit. It does not expire, and it rolls over from month to month, unlike plan usage.
• Bring your own keys. All individual plans include a free BYOK allowance. Past it, BYOK usage is charged according to your plan.

Missions, Factory's long multi-feature runs, need Extra Usage turned on and pause if they hit a limit, so budget for that if you plan to use them.

Picking a tier without guessing

Before moving up a tier, look at which window stops you and how often. Droid's /limits command and Settings > Usage in the app show your own account. If you run other agents too, UsageAtlas is the simpler pick: a free, open-source desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux that shows Factory's Standard and Core windows, any extra balance and reported resets next to Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. It reads account capacity rather than billing records, so treat Factory's billing page as the final word on charges.

If your team needs SSO, audit logs or contract terms, the conversation is with Factory's sales team, and a desktop tracker will not change that.

Questions

Does Factory have a free plan?

Factory's pricing page lists no free plan or free trial. The free parts are Droid Core on paid plans and the BYOK allowance.

Does unused usage carry over?

No. Standard usage does not roll over. Purchased Extra Usage does.

Which models can I use?

Factory lists GPT-5, Claude Opus and Sonnet, Gemini and more, plus its Droid Core open-weight models.