Warp Factories per-run pricing

Separate per run pricing turns Warp Factories from a terminal add on into automation infrastructure that can scale with machine work, not human seats. A team is not just paying for a developer to open Warp, it is paying each time an agent is triggered from GitHub, Slack, webhooks, schedules, or CI, which fits workflows like PR review, bug triage, and incident response that may fire hundreds or thousands of times per month.1 2 3 4

• Warp already prices its core product around credits and agent usage, and factory runs draw from that same usage pool rather than a flat seat bundle. On Free, factory usage is pay as you go with a markup over API rates. Build and above get API rate usage. Enterprise can run BYOLLM jobs in its own cloud without consuming Warp credits.3 4
• The practical reason for charging per run is that autonomous jobs have real variable cost. Warp says credits can include model calls, cloud compute, and platform overhead for unattended runs. That is very different from classic terminal software, where the marginal cost of one more session is near zero.3 4
• This puts Warp closer to Factory than to a normal IDE subscription. Factory also combines subscriptions with usage controls because a quick coding task costs pennies while a long multi step agent workflow can consume much more inference and compute. In both cases, usage pricing is the cleanest way to monetize background automation.5 6

The direction is toward software development budgets moving from seat purchases to metered automation spend. As more coding work starts from tickets, alerts, and scheduled jobs instead of a developer typing at a keyboard, the winning products will be the ones that can price, govern, and prove ROI for every agent run across the stack.1 2 5 6