Comparison from first-party sources, read Oct 9, 2026

Skyflo vs Factory

Factory runs its own Droids across desktop, terminal, web, and CLI, and Missions break broad work into milestones for many Droids. Skyflo runs its own agent and seven external agents you already use, on missions on your Mac; Codex and its own agent can also run in Skyflo Cloud.

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At a glance8 dimensions, no winner score

FactoryDocumented strength

Factory Missions plan features and milestones with you, then an orchestrator runs worker and validator Droids, including multi-repository migrations. Droids run from the Factory App, the CLI, IDEs, and Slack, on your machine or on managed or bring-your-own Droid Computers, with Factory Router choosing a model per task.

SkyfloWhere it sits

Skyflo runs the agents you already use (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor Agent and four more) beside its own, under one access mode for the whole mission, with an append-only record and source-linked memory on your Mac.

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The decision.

Do you want Factory's own Droids to run decomposed Missions with enterprise deployment options, or missions that run the third-party agents your engineers already use?

Factory is a complete agent platform with its own Droid, Missions with milestone validation, model routing and a deep enterprise offer, up to private deployment in Private Preview. Skyflo keeps the agents your engineers chose, Codex, Claude Code, Cursor Agent and more, and puts one access mode, a record and memory around them; its larger rollouts start with a pilot.

Not run by Skyflo. Skyflo does not run Factory's Droids, and Factory does not document running third-party agents. They are alternatives.

Choose Factory when

You want Droids in VS Code, JetBrains, the browser, Slack, and the terminal, from one vendor.
Automatic decomposition and dependency ordering, with validation at each milestone, are central to the work.
You need coordinated migrations across dozens of repositories, Droids on managed or your own Droid Computers, or hybrid and airgapped deployment.

Choose Skyflo when

The agents should be the ones you already use, such as Codex or Claude Code, each with its own sign-in.
One access mode should govern every agent on a mission, and each decision should be recorded.
Memory and Skills should come from finished missions, link to their source, and be removable.

You might use both when

Use Factory for Droid Missions and broad migrations, and Skyflo when a mission should run the third-party agents you already have under one access mode, with its record on your Mac.

For company leaders and teams

Factory for teams: Pro ($20), Plus ($100) and Max ($200) a month, Teams ($60 a team plus $40 a seat), and Business and Enterprise through sales, with SSO, SCIM, roles, audit logging, configurable retention and zero data retention. Deployment ranges from cloud-managed to airgapped; Factory Private, in your VPC or on premises, is in Private Preview. Factory lists SOC 2 and ISO 27001 and 42001.
Skyflo for teams, today: Team and Team Max are self-serve plans billed per user, with one bill, members and roles, and included usage shared across the team. Larger rollouts start with a pilot. SSO, SCIM and compliance certifications are not offered.

Skyflo vs Factory, dimension by dimension.

The same 8 dimensions run on every engineering comparison, including the ones where Factory is stronger. A row reading “not addressed” means the reviewed documentation does not cover it, which is not the same as the product lacking it.

Factory and Skyflo across 8 dimensions
Dimension	Factory	Skyflo
Primary unit of work	A Droid session; for large work, a Mission: a plan of features and milestones that an orchestrator runs with worker Droids and validation at each milestone.	A mission: one goal with its conversation, the agents working on it, their approvals, and its record. It persists across sessions and goes idle rather than closing.
Execution environment	The Factory App and CLI on your machine, IDEs, web and mobile, Slack, and CI through droid exec, plus managed or bring-your-own Droid Computers. Enterprise patterns include hybrid and airgapped; Factory Private, in your own VPC or on premises, is in Private Preview.	Agents run on your Mac by default. On a paid plan you can start or move a mission to Skyflo Cloud, a machine Skyflo runs for that mission, which keeps working while your Mac sleeps. Only Codex and Skyflo's own agent run there; Claude Code stays on your Mac. A mission started there from a GitHub repository opens a pull request.
Agent and model choice	Factory's own Droid with models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and an open-weight pool, chosen per task by Factory Router or by you, plus your own keys. Missions use separate worker and validator models. Running third-party agents is not documented.	Skyflo's own agent plus seven external agents: Codex, Claude Code, Cursor Agent, Antigravity, Grok CLI, OpenCode, and Pi, and one custom ACP agent added through a manifest file. External agents use their own sign-in and models; Skyflo's own agent uses included models on paid plans or your Moonshot or Z.ai key. Orchestrate runs several on one mission and can pick the lead.
Cross-repository coordination	Missions explicitly coordinate multi-repository migrations, including dependency ordering and parallel work.	A workspace is an ordered set of up to eight registered Git checkouts, and one mission can span them. In Skyflo Cloud a mission spans one to five. Each writing specialist works in its own worktree, so edits stay apart while the work runs; integrating them is still a change you review.
Approval and mutation boundaries	You approve a Mission's plan before workers start; interaction modes, autonomy levels, command policy, and sandbox rules decide what Droids run without asking.	One access mode governs every agent on a mission, Skyflo's own and the external ones. Skyflo answers each agent's permission requests by that mode and records the decision. In Full access, the default for a new Auto mission, prompts are off and folder confinement is lifted. Orchestrate starts at Ask for approval, and Plan mode waits for you to approve the plan.
Independent review	Missions run validation workers at the end of each milestone, on a model you can set separately. Droid also reviews pull requests on GitHub and GitLab, and custom Droids can be limited to read-only tools.	In Orchestrate missions, Skyflo adds a separate reviewer by strategy and risk, and Skyflo's own agent can start one. The reviewer can read, search, ask, and report, but cannot edit files. Not every mission is reviewed, and a review is a second opinion, not a guarantee.
Browser, terminal, and automation evidence	Droid Control automates terminal, browser, and desktop and records video evidence of whether a behavior claim holds. Automations run Droid on schedules, Slack messages, and GitHub events.	Code, browser, terminal, and automations share one workspace, where you and Skyflo's own agent work in the same browser and terminal. Each mission keeps an append-only record on your Mac of approvals, Skyflo tool calls, including external agents' calls through Skyflo's tools, and review findings, every event hash-linked to the one before it.
Cross-mission memory, provenance, and user control	AGENTS.md files and custom Droids carry instructions, and scheduled automations keep a memory folder between runs. The reviewed docs do not describe memory learned across sessions in general.	Personal memory stored on your Mac, learned from finished missions with a link to its source. Skyflo keeps a memory when the evidence supports it; otherwise it waits for you to keep, correct, or dismiss it, and you can remove any memory later. A workflow verified in two repositories can become a Skill once you or an independent agent approves it. Reverting a Skill or a routing change alters what Skyflo does next, not past work.

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Last reviewed Oct 9, 2026

Every statement about Factory on this page is limited to behavior documented on these pages, on the date they were read. Where they do not cover a dimension, the table says so instead of guessing.

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