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Factory sells a hosted agent workforce. ProPR is the factory floor you run yourself.

Factory.ai builds Droids — its own software development agents — delivered as a platform with desktop, CLI, Slack, and Linear surfaces. ProPR is the Apache 2.0 delivery path that runs Claude Code, Codex, and other agents you already subscribe to, on your own server, through GitHub pull requests.

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Factory supplies the agents and the platform, with self-managed deployment reserved for its Enterprise tier. ProPR supplies the process — planning, isolation, PR delivery, review loops — and every installation is self-hosted.

Current tool surfaceEditor, hosted workspace, review tool, or trackerWork starts where that product keeps its strongest context.
ProPR pathPlan → isolated workspace → GitHub PR → follow-up commitThe pull request and its review conversation preserve the shared history.

Factory.ai popularized the "software factory" framing: an agent-native system where Droids take work from ticket to mergeable pull request across desktop, CLI, Slack, and Linear. Individual tiers run $20–$200 per month with usage limits; Business and Enterprise tiers add seats, SSO, audit controls, and — at the Enterprise level — on-premise and air-gapped deployment.

ProPR agrees with the premise and changes the ownership model. The loop — intake, planning, parallel isolated execution, scored review, PR delivery, follow-up commits — runs as free, open-source software on a Docker host you control. The agents doing the work are the ones you already pay for: Claude Code on a Claude plan, Codex on a ChatGPT plan, or any of the five supported agents on your own API keys. ProPR never marks up tokens, and the merge decision stays with a human unless you explicitly enable auto-merge for green pull requests. The software factory page maps the full loop.

Factory fits best when...

  • You want a vendor-built agent workforce with named roles and a managed platform around it.
  • Slack and Linear are where engineering work starts, and those interfaces should drive the agents.
  • An Enterprise contract with SSO, audit controls, and vendor-managed or on-prem deployment is the procurement path.

ProPR fits best when...

  • The agents should be the ones you already subscribe to, switchable per task and comparable on the same issue.
  • Repositories, logs, credentials, and execution should live on infrastructure you run from day one, on the free tier.
  • GitHub drives delivery: plans become issues, results become PRs, and review comments become follow-up commits.

Hosted Droids versus a self-hosted delivery path.

QuestionFactory.aiProPR
Open source (Apache 2.0)NoYes
Self-hosted on the free tierNoYes
Ships its own proprietary agentsYes — DroidsNo — routes your agents
Runs on AI subscriptions you already holdNoYes
Work ships as GitHub pull requestsYesYes
Review comments become follow-up commits on the same branchVariesYes
Platform pricing beyond model costsYes — $20–$200/mo tiersNo — free software

Factory.ai tiers, surfaces, and Enterprise deployment options as published at factory.ai/pricing, July 2026.