Factory Router
Automatically select the best model for each task.
Factory Router automatically chooses the best model for each Droid task. Instead of locking a session to one model, it evaluates the work in front of it and routes each task to the model with the best balance of quality, latency, and cost. It runs in the Droid CLI and Factory App, under the same Enterprise Controls as every other model.
Why use Factory Router?
Use it when you want strong results without hand-picking a model for every workflow.
| Benefit | What Factory Router does |
|---|---|
| Best performance at lower cost | In production, it delivers 43% aggregate cost savings versus pricing the same workload at top-tier model rates, while holding frontier-level performance in Factory evaluations. |
| Improved model selection | Droid sends routine steps to faster, lower-cost models and reserves stronger models for work that needs deeper reasoning. |
| Enterprise-ready controls | The same org, project, and user-level model controls used across the Factory platform apply without change. |
Availability
Factory Router is generally available in the Droid CLI and Factory App model selector, with no setup required. In some product surfaces, the same router appears as Auto Model; the canonical product and docs name is Factory Router.
Reliability
Factory Router routes across multiple models, providers, and capacity sources, so sessions keep running when a provider degrades, hits rate limits, or constrains capacity. Factory evaluations put request reliability at 99.9%+, more than any single-provider path.
- Provider failover. If one provider path is unavailable, sessions continue through another healthy path.
- Dedicated throughput. Enterprise customers get reserved TPM for critical work instead of relying only on shared public capacity.
- US-hosted open-source models. Eligible work can route to US-hosted open-source models for cost-efficient or controlled options.
Enterprise Controls
Admins manage Factory Router through the same governance system used for every other Factory-supported model, allowing or restricting it at the organization level like any other option.
For more on enterprise model controls, see Enterprise Controls & Managed Settings.