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Engineers track leaderboards and spend critical hours evaluating incremental performance gains between models.
The most performant models are being used for simple queries, and cost-conscious engineers aren't effectively able to adjust when they need performance.
Each model differs in performance, cost, reasoning capabilities, and latency, so each should be used where it shines.
Today, we're announcing Factory Router.
Factory Router cuts token spend by 20-25% while maintaining frontier performance.
To enable enterprises to achieve the best quality at the lower cost with highest reliability, it automatically selects the right model for each task, and routes across providers if an endpoint degrades.
On our enterprise-grade engineering benchmarks: Terminal-Bench 2 : 99% of Claude Opus 4.7's pass rate at 20% lower cost per session .
Legacy-Bench : 96% of Claude Opus 4.7's pass rate at 25% lower cost per session .
At enterprise scale, those savings compound across every Droid session your engineers run.
By tying spend to the work actually being done, lower per-session costs make continuous autonomous software engineering easier to scale across the organization.
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