Augment Code vs Factory vs Amp vs Cursor
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Augment Code
AI coding agents with deep codebase context, priced flat to 50 seats
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | No free plan is published; every listed plan is paid | Hobby: free with your own model subscriptions or API keys and your own runners, no Amp token fees; orbs pay-as-you-go | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed |
| Paid from | Standard $20/mo or Business $100/mo, flat for up to 50 seats with that much usage; Enterprise custom | Pro $20/mo; Teams $60/mo + $40/seat; Business and Enterprise custom | $20/month (Individual Megawatt, 45,000 orb minutes) | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 | 2025 | 2023 |
| Maker | Independent (Augment Computing, Inc.) | Independent (The San Francisco AI Factory, Inc.) | Amp Frontier Corporation | SpaceX |
| Verdict | Augment's Context Engine remains its strength: agents that understand a large, messy codebase rather than the open file. Its pricing has been rebuilt twice in 2026 and now looks unusual — $20 or $100 a month flat for up... |
Factory is one of the most ambitious enterprise coding-agent platforms, with strong deployment options — private cloud, on-premises and air-gapped — and fresh capital to keep building, plus offices in Sydney and Tokyo. I... |
Amp is for developers who want agents that run in parallel and keep working unattended. Orbs give every thread an isolated remote machine, the Hobby tier is free with your own ChatGPT or Claude subscription or API keys,... |
Cursor remains one of the strongest AI editors: agents that work across a whole codebase, cloud agents and automations, and Bugbot reviews, with Grok and Composer models included in a weekly allowance. The October 2026 m... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.