Augment Code vs Factory AI vs OpenHands vs Verdent
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Augment Code
Enterprise coding assistant with deep code-context
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OpenHands
Open-source coding agent: self-host free or run in OpenHands Cloud
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Enterprise | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | Business $100/month flat (up to 50 seats) — Indie/Standard retired June 2026 | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
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| Founded | 2022 | — | 2024 | — |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Augment Code is an agentic AI coding assistant whose Context Engine maintains a live view of large, complex codebases, feeding deep context to agents across VS Code, JetBrains, the CLI, Slack, and GitHub reviews. Its dif... |
Factory's Droid earned its benchmark bragging rights: it hit 58.75% on Terminal-Bench, beating Claude Code (43.2% with Opus) and Codex CLI (42.8% with GPT-5) on the same class of underlying models — Factory's own writeup... |
Reading a repo, writing and running code, executing shell commands, browsing the web to close out a dev task end to end — that's the sandboxed loop this open-source agent runs, and it does so in the open: MIT-licensed, m... |
Verdent's pitch is planning before code: a dedicated Plan Mode turns a vague brief into requirements and an action plan before any agent starts writing, which is a real answer to the one-shot-and-hope failure mode of mos... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.