Droid CLI vs. Qwen Code

Feature	Droid CLI	Qwen Code

Tagline	Agent-native software development in your terminal	An open-source AI agent that lives in your terminal
Website	https://factory.ai	https://qwen.ai/qwencode
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	May 28, 2025	August 1, 2025
Last Updated	May 14, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	AI Lab
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	No
IDE Integration	VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, JetBrains IDEs, Vim, Zed	VS Code, Zed, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model dependent
Terminal Bench 2.0	#11 · 77.3% ±2.2 ¹
Supported Models	Frontier models by Factory: Opus 4.6, GPT-5, GPT-5.3-Codex & custom models; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi K2, Qwen.	Qwen series models, compatible with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini APIs, including models from OpenRouter.
Pricing Model	Freemium	Free
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	$20-200/mo	Free (1,000 req/day)
Source Code Availability	Source Available (Proprietary)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/Factory-AI/factory	https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code
Development State	active	active