Uno vs Factory
Factory emphasizes an agent platform spanning desktop, terminal, web, and CLI. Uno centers the team's work on isolated cloud sessions, shared configuration, and live app inspection. Evaluate which operating surface fits your day-to-day engineering work.
The quick decision
Your team wants the session computer, tool activity, live preview, and resulting changes together in a shared workspace. Reuse environment manifests and team standards across sessions, then inspect what each session produced. Uno is a fit when a common place to follow execution and review running results helps teammates collaborate on several tasks.
Explore Uno with your team →You prefer Factory's Droid workflows across developer interfaces, with model routing, analytics, and mission monitoring.
Source: Factory platform overviewSide by side
Both products can help deliver code. Compare the environment, the team's access to the running result, and the path into review.
| Workflow | Uno | Factory |
|---|---|---|
| Team context | Repositories, members, rules, skills, and connected tools belong to a shared workspace. Give sessions the same starting context without rebuilding it in every prompt. | AutoWiki maintains repository knowledge; automations use shared context. Source: Factory platform overview |
| Execution environments | Each session gets an isolated cloud computer. Environment manifests define its image, packages, and setup commands so the team can reproduce the starting environment. | Droid Computers provide dedicated local hardware with persistent state. Source: Factory platform overview |
| Parallel work | Run separate sessions with isolated branches, dependencies, ports, and runtime state. Follow their progress together in the workspace while each session works independently. | Mission Control exposes worker progress and active missions. Source: Factory platform overview |
| Runtime inspection | Open the session desktop for Computer Use and inspect published app previews. See the running result alongside session activity before deciding what needs another pass. | Droid plans, builds, and validates changes. Uno-style desktop and preview access is not confirmed by the reviewed overview. Source: Factory platform overview |
| Review and delivery | Follow tool activity, outputs, branches, and pull requests from the session. Review the changes and their testing evidence together before accepting the handoff. | Code review provides inline PR feedback. Source: Factory platform overview |
| Tools and customization | Connect workspace MCP tools and share rules and skills. Put repository conventions and access to internal tools in the workspace so teammates can reuse them. | Desktop, terminal, web, and CLI interfaces plus automatic model routing. Source: Factory platform overview |
| Infrastructure controls | Configure the sandbox provider and region for your workspace. Review the runtime boundary, network access, and model-provider requirements with your team before adoption. | Deployment location and model control are advertised; confirm the arrangement for your team. Source: Factory platform overview |
Capabilities can vary by configuration and plan. These descriptions use public product documentation, rather than a hands-on benchmark. See Uno's workspace and infrastructure controls and security boundaries.
Why consider Uno
Use separate Uno sessions for a backend fix and its companion interface change. Each session has its own environment, while status and outputs stay visible in the workspace. Teammates can follow the part of the work they need to review without reconstructing it from separate tool transcripts. Review dependencies between the changes and choose a merge order before combining the branches.
Publish the app from a session and inspect the preview alongside the changes. For an interaction that needs closer investigation, open the session desktop and check what happens in the runtime. Use those observations to give specific feedback while the task is still underway. Include automated checks and testing evidence in the final handoff so the reviewer has more than a visual impression.
Choose a base image and setup commands in an environment manifest, then add workspace rules and skills for the team's development process. Connect the MCP tools needed to investigate and complete the task. This makes the starting configuration reusable when another teammate begins related work. Test the manifest against a representative repository and service dependency, and refine it when the project's setup changes.
Common questions
Yes. Factory describes Droid as planning, building, and validating changes. Compare how you inspect the runtime and review the output, rather than assuming execution is unique to Uno.
Source: Factory platform overviewMap where your team starts tasks, follows progress, and accepts changes. Trial Uno's shared session workspace with a task that requires both code changes and app inspection. Check whether teammates can find the relevant activity and running result easily, and whether the workspace reduces the effort of passing work between an implementer and a reviewer.
Begin with the repository and one internal tool the agent needs for a real task. Configure the workspace MCP connection, confirm the sandbox can reach the service, and verify the intended permissions. Add shared rules for how the tool should be used. The useful comparison is whether the complete workflow works with your environment, including its authentication requirements.
Keep your existing workflow and run a bounded trial in a separate branch. Use the same task, tests, and review criteria, then compare setup effort, progress visibility, app inspection, and the clarity of the handoff. Create an Uno account to start a trial, or contact the team to discuss any infrastructure requirements before scheduling it.
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