Today, we're opening up access to Droid Computers: persistent machines for remotely orchestrating Droids.

Spin one up in Factory's cloud, or turn your own machine into a Droid Computer. Either way, Droid gets a real development environment it can return to, with its filesystem, configuration, credentials, local services, and even process memory intact. Instead of spending time and tokens reconstructing an environment, Droid can start right where it left off, and since it's running in the cloud, it'll keep working even once you've closed your laptop.

Run Droids anywhere, anytime

Using Droid Computers, you can orchestrate Droids wherever and whenever you need. You can open the Factory platform on your phone to manage Droids on the go across multiple computers. With Bring Your Own Machine, you can remotely control Droids on your laptop or workstation while you're out for a walk and pick up the work when you're back at your desk.

Computers also unlock new asynchronous, background workflows with Droids. Since they run remotely, you can kick off a task before you sleep and have the result ready in the morning. You can combine Droid Computers with automations to build always-on agents as well. Droid can watch for alerts, triage customer issues, and conduct deep research tasks on a regular basis — all in the background, running in the cloud. And because it continues in the same environment with context from previous sessions, Droid can identify patterns in its work and suggest better tooling, prioritize tasks more effectively, and grow even more capable.

Persistence is the new paradigm for cloud agents

Other cloud agent products have taken bets on ephemeral sandboxes. Why are we breaking the mold with Droid Computers?

Ephemeral sandboxes were a natural starting point for coding agents. They're clean, isolated, and easy to throw away. For short, one-off tasks in simple environments, they work well enough. But to move to the rest of the SDLC beyond coding, agents must complete more complex software engineering workflows that are inherently stateful, so their environments must be as well.

Having a persistent home means Droid can maintain its environment, store context, and self-improve across sessions. If it's blocked by misconfigured credentials or missing dependencies while working a task, it only needs to solve it once, and all subsequent tasks benefit. After debugging a particularly gnarly corner of your codebase, Droid can create memories and skills to teach itself how to work more efficiently in the future.

The broader industry has begun to converge on a similar intuition this year: powerful agents need persistent environments. Droid Computers are the developer-native version of this bet here at Factory: your Droids, running where you want, how you want.

Getting started

Droid Computers support two setup paths: Factory-managed cloud computers and Bring Your Own Machine.

Managed Computers

Managed Computers are cloud development environments hosted and managed by Factory. Our platform provisions the underlying machine, installs Droid, and sets up your GitHub or GitLab credentials if integrated. Then, you can either have Droid set up the development environment dynamically, or you can access a terminal to configure everything yourself.

Computers stay online while Droids are working and pause when they are idle — you'll only be charged while they're awake. When you send a new message, the computer will resume with full filesystem and memory snapshots, so local services can continue running as if they never paused.

Bring Your Own Machine (BYOM)

You can register any machine as a Droid Computer, be it a laptop, Mac Mini, home workstation, or VM. This is particularly useful for orchestrating remote Droids in private networks, self-hosted infrastructure, or existing machines with pre-configured development environments, with several Fortune 500 companies already leveraging BYOM with Factory in production.

BYOM computers connect outbound to Factory's backend and don't require any other networking configurations.

Availability and pricing

Bring Your Own Machine is available for all users free of charge.

Managed Computers are available today for Max, Growth, and Enterprise plans.