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Factory vs Val Town

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Factory

Software Development

The autonomy stack for enterprise teams

From
$20/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Val Town

Software Development

The deployment platform for internal tools

From
Free
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Only Val Town has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
  • Each has a real cost: Factory business and Enterprise plans require direct sales contact for pricing; Val Town the free tier limits scheduled crons to 15 minute intervals and functions to a 1 minute wall clock time per run; only the $21 per month Pro tier reduces the cron interval to 1 minute, as of August 2026.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 29 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Factory and Val Town actually diverge.

Attributes where Factory and Val Town differ
AttributeFactoryVal Town
Starting price$20/monthFree
Pricing modelsubscriptionfreemium
Free tierNoYes

Identical on both: platforms (Web), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Software Development).

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Factory

  • AI agent development and deploymentnot Val Town
  • Multi-platform automationnot Val Town
  • Background task executionnot Val Town
  • Agent orchestrationnot Val Town

Val Town

  • Alert systems - Send Slack notifications when significant deals closenot Factory
  • Webhook handling - Receive and process webhooks with instant deploymentnot Factory
  • Scheduled automation - Run crons and automated tasks on a set schedulenot Factory
  • Quick experiments - Build and host prototype projects instantlynot Factory
  • API development - Create and deploy APIs without infrastructure setupnot Factory

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Factory

  • Business and Enterprise plans require direct sales contact for pricing
  • Individual plans (Pro, Plus, Max) have limited feature details

Val Town

  • The free tier limits scheduled crons to 15 minute intervals and functions to a 1 minute wall clock time per run; only the $21 per month Pro tier reduces the cron interval to 1 minute, as of August 2026.

Pricing, plan by plan

Factory

$20/month
  • Pro$20/month
    • Agent-native multi-platform experience
    • Desktop, CLI, and SDK access
    • Cloud and local background agents
  • Plus$100/month
    • Everything in Pro
    • Approximately 5x usage limits
    • Droid Computers for remote agents
  • Max$200/month
    • Everything in Plus
    • Approximately 10x usage limits
    • Early access to new features
  • Business$null/mo

Val Town

Free
  • FreeFree
    • Unlimited public vals
    • 100,000 runs per day
    • 15-minute cron intervals
  • Pro$21/month
    • $10 monthly AI credits
    • 1-minute cron intervals
    • 2,000 private vals
  • Business$167/month
    • All Pro features
    • $100 AI credits
    • Unlimited custom domains
  • Enterprise$null/custom
    • Flexible AI credits
    • No core feature limits
    • Log export

Which should you pick?

Choose Factory if

Nothing in the data separates Factory from Val Town on the points above - pick on price and on how each one feels to use.

Factory review

Choose Val Town if

  • You want to start without paying.
Val Town review

Questions people ask

Is Factory or Val Town better?
Neither clearly leads. Factory starts at $20/month and Val Town at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Factory or Val Town?
Val Town has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at $20/month for Factory and Free for Val Town.
Does Factory or Val Town run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Val Town for free?
Yes. Val Town has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Factory starts at $20/month.
What is Factory best used for?
Factory is most often used for ai agent development and deployment, multi-platform automation, background task execution, agent orchestration. Of those, ai agent development and deployment and multi-platform automation are not what Val Town is typically brought in for.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Factory: What is Factory.ai's pricing?

Factory.ai offers individual plans starting at USD$20 per month for Pro, USD$100 per month for Plus, and USD$200 per month for Max. Team plans including Business and Enterprise tiers are available at custom pricing based on the number of seats required.

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Val Town: How much does Val Town cost?

Val Town offers a free tier with 100,000 runs per day. Pro costs $21 per month with 1 million runs daily. Business starts at $167 per month with 5 million daily runs. Enterprise plans with custom pricing are available for advanced needs.

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Factory: What are the usage limits for each plan?

The Pro plan is the baseline tier. Plus provides approximately 5 times the usage limits of Pro, while Max provides approximately 10 times the usage limits of Pro. Exact usage limits are not specified on the pricing page.

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Val Town: Is there a free plan?

Yes. The free tier includes unlimited public vals, 100,000 runs per day, 15-minute cron intervals, and 3-day log retention with no payment required.

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Factory: What AI models are included with Factory.ai?

All Factory.ai plans include access to GPT-5, Claude Opus and Sonnet, Google Gemini, and open-weight models. Business and Enterprise plans also include dedicated compute with partitioned inference and options for on-premise deployment.

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Val Town: What's the difference between Pro and Business plans?

Pro includes $10 monthly AI credits, 1-minute cron intervals, 2,000 private vals, and 1 million runs per day at $21/month. Business adds $100 AI credits, unlimited custom domains, 5 million daily runs, and team accounts for $167/month.

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