Running Factory Router as a service, Model Hosting Gateways

Factory Router Agency Implementation, Cost-Optimized AI Coding Delivery

Learn how to architect Factory Router into your agency's AI coding workflows to cut inference costs by 63% while maintaining reliability. This course covers automatic model routing setup, organization policy configuration, cost tracking for client billing, and escalation workflows that keep projects moving without manual model selection overhead.

Open the decision record for Factory Router

What does running Factory Router for clients commit you to?

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Not published, pricing_tiers data contains no plan prices; agency must obtain the vendor's tiered plan cost from Factory before modeling investment
Time to first value
Not published
Payback
Not modeled
Guided implementation
8 hours

Is Factory Router worth running as a client service?

The evidence supports a managed-service offer around Factory Router for engineering teams already on Factory Droid, with verifiable per-session routing and reported production savings. Vendor plan prices, client pricing, labor cost, and expected volume are not in the data, so delivery economics cannot be modeled.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • Factory Droid CLI, Desktop App, or SDK access
  • Factory Router enabled in the model picker
  • Access to the model pool including GPT-5, Claude Opus, Claude Sonnet, Gemini, GLM-5.3, and GPT-6 Luna
  • Admin access for routing guidance and model access policy

People and inputs

  • Engineering staff who can evaluate routing policy and failover behavior
  • Baseline of client inference spend under manual model selection
  • Analytics review process for aggregate and median session savings
  • Owner of client-side compliance and model eligibility requirements

Included with the course

6 working documents for delivering this service.

  • Factory Router Setup Checklist for Agencieschecklist
  • Organization Routing Policy Templatetemplate
  • Client Cost Allocation and Billing Worksheetworksheet
  • Model Escalation SOP for Stuck Sessionssop
  • Provider Failover Response Playbookguide
  • Monthly Cost Savings Report Templatetemplate

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.