# Factory AI — Droid: The #1 Software Development Agent on Terminal-Bench

- Company: Factory AI (factory.com)
- Announced: 2025-09-25
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://factory.com/news/terminal-bench
- Record: https://forck.live/items/17831-droid-the-1-software-development-agent-on-terminal-bench
- Subject: Droid
- Models affected: Opus 4.1, GPT-5, Sonnet 4

Factory AI's Droid agent achieved a 58.75% score on the Terminal-Bench benchmark, placing first among all agents. Factory agents occupy three of the top five positions, with Droid using Opus 4.1 (no thinking) at 58.8%, GPT-5 (medium reasoning) at 52.5%, and Sonnet 4 (no thinking) at 50.5%. The company attributes the performance to agent design rather than model choice, noting that Droid with Sonnet outperforms all other agents using Opus.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://factory.com/news/terminal-bench:

> Droid achieves 58.8% on Terminal-Bench, placing first among all agents. Factory agents occupy three of the top five positions—with Opus 4.1 (no thinking) (58.8%), GPT-5 (medium reasoning) (52.5%), and Sonnet 4 (no thinking) (50.5%).

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