> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.simforge.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create a Factory run > Create a Factory run (a `factory_batch` cloud run) under the caller's credential and workspace. Requires `maxCostCents` (at least the estimate) and `Idempotency-Key`; the whole quote is held, and only accepted clips are charged, per camera-second. A replay with the same key and request returns the original run (200). ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /api/v1/factory/runs openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: SimForge Cloud API version: '2026-10-24' description: >- The public SimForge API: what `simforge --cloud`, `simforge login` and the Python client call. Authenticate with a bearer token: the access token `simforge login` stores, an AI agent's access token (its recipe is `/auth.md`), or an `sfk_` API key. A `/api/v1` 401 carries `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer resource_metadata="/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"`. `/api/v1` errors are an `ErrorEnvelope`; `/api/cli` and `/agent` errors are an OAuth error object. Versions: send `SimForge-Version: ` (2026-10-01, 2026-10-21, 2026-10-22, 2026-10-23, 2026-10-24) and every `/api/v1` response is in that version's shape and names it in the same header; this document describes 2026-10-24. A request without the header gets 2026-10-01, where an error's hint is `detail.hint` and `GET /api/v1/evaluations` names its rows `jobs`. A header that is not a date, or a date before 2026-10-01, is `400 bad_request`. Every response also carries `SimForge-Cli-Minimum`: the oldest `simforge` CLI the server serves. Retries: from 2026-10-21, send a new `Idempotency-Key` (1-255 characters) with every POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE, and the same key when retrying that request. The first request's answer is kept for 24 hours and a repeat gets it again with `Idempotent-Replayed: true`; the key with any other request, or while the first is still running, is `409 idempotency_conflict` (`retryable` while running). A 5xx answer is not kept. Creating an API key refuses a key (its secret is shown once). license: name: Apache-2.0 identifier: Apache-2.0 servers: - url: https://dev.simforge.ai description: Development (dev.simforge.ai) security: [] tags: - name: Sign-in description: >- `simforge login`: OAuth 2.0 device and browser sign-in for the CLI, the session behind a token. AI agents sign in through auth.md (`/auth.md`): register, a person approves, then the claim and JWT-bearer grants. - name: Account description: The principal, its workspaces, API keys and usage, and system status. - name: Runs description: >- Cloud runs (`--cloud`): renders, simulations, Recast log ingestion and transfers, their events and artifacts. - name: Models description: Customer fine-tunes and their workspace-owned model weights. - name: Datasets description: >- Datasets, their files as signed links (`simforge.dataset-files/v1`, `simforge datasets pull`), and copies out of shared datasets (SIMLOG-25k). - name: Maps and vehicles description: >- Maps the workspace can use, the vehicles a scenario can bind and the asset gallery. - name: Authoring description: >- Hosted scenario authoring: drafts, transactions, validation and map discovery. - name: Distribution description: >- The runtime and map pack agreement and signed downloads (`simforge runtime install`, `simforge maps pull`). - name: Telemetry description: Runtime usage telemetry, a condition of the runtime terms. - name: Benchmark description: Renderer benchmark results and scene packs (`simforge bench`). - name: Challenge description: >- The driving challenge: team, registry login and submissions (`simforge challenge`). paths: /api/v1/factory/runs: post: tags: - Runs summary: Create a Factory run description: >- Create a Factory run (a `factory_batch` cloud run) under the caller's credential and workspace. Requires `maxCostCents` (at least the estimate) and `Idempotency-Key`; the whole quote is held, and only accepted clips are charged, per camera-second. A replay with the same key and request returns the original run (200). operationId: createFactoryRun parameters: - in: header name: Idempotency-Key required: true schema: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 200 requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/FactoryRunCreateRequest' responses: '200': description: Idempotent replay. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/FactoryRun' '201': description: Created run. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/FactoryRun' '400': description: The request failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' '401': description: The request failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' '402': description: The request failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' '403': description: >- `cloud_not_open`: SimForge Cloud is off here, or no worker here runs the work yet (the reason names it, `detail.code` `run_kind_unavailable`, `detail.kinds` its job kinds); or `insufficient_scope`. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' '404': description: The request failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' '409': description: The request failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' '429': description: The request failed. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope' security: - simforgeToken: - runs:write - scenarios:read - maps:read - datasets:read components: schemas: FactoryRunCreateRequest: type: object properties: scenarioIds: type: array items: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 minItems: 1 maxItems: 500 description: >- The scenarios to make clips of, in this workspace. Exactly one of scenarioIds and datasetId. datasetId: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 description: >- Every scenario of this dataset (one this workspace owns, at most 500). Exactly one of scenarioIds and datasetId. lookIds: type: array items: type: string pattern: ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,63}$ minItems: 1 maxItems: 14 description: >- Looks from GET /api/v1/factory/looks, each once. In simulator mode every clip is made with `rendered` (Rendered lighting). mode: type: string enum: - positions - simulator default: positions description: >- `positions`: the generator sees the layout and the look. `simulator`: the layout and each camera's first Helios frame, so the clip keeps the render's lighting: its look is always `rendered`, and any other look asked is replaced with the warning factory_look_unavailable_in_mode. seedsPerLook: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 10 default: 1 description: Clips per scenario and look, each on its own seed. cameras: type: array items: type: string enum: - camera_cross_left_120fov - camera_front_wide_120fov - camera_cross_right_120fov - camera_front_tele_30fov default: - camera_cross_left_120fov - camera_front_wide_120fov - camera_cross_right_120fov - camera_front_tele_30fov description: >- The Alpamayo 4-camera rig, the only rig offered: every clip has all four cameras. maxCostCents: type: integer minimum: 0 description: >- The most this run may charge: every clip accepted. Below the estimate, the run is refused budget_exceeded. required: - lookIds - maxCostCents additionalProperties: false FactoryRun: type: object properties: id: type: string status: type: string enum: - queued - running - succeeded - partial - failed - cancelled mode: type: string enum: - positions - simulator lookIds: type: array items: type: string pattern: ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,63}$ seedsPerLook: type: integer exclusiveMinimum: 0 scenarios: type: integer minimum: 0 clips: $ref: '#/components/schemas/FactoryClipCounts' costEstimateCents: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 costCents: type: - integer - 'null' minimum: 0 createdAt: type: string format: date-time finishedAt: type: - string - 'null' format: date-time required: - id - status - mode - lookIds - seedsPerLook - scenarios - clips - costEstimateCents - costCents - createdAt - finishedAt ErrorEnvelope: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string enum: - bad_request - validation_failed - unauthorized - insufficient_scope - workspace_required - not_found - conflict - gone - idempotency_conflict - lease_lost - budget_exceeded - max_cost_required - idempotency_key_required - insufficient_credits - checkout_closed - cloud_not_open - email_unverified - terms_acceptance_required - evaluation_launch_disabled - evaluation_admissions_paused - fine_tunes_not_enabled - model_name_reserved - model_name_invalid - model_name_taken - model_quota_exceeded - checkpoint_too_large - checkpoint_format_unsupported - model_family_not_fine_tunable - checkpoint_file_unexpected - checkpoint_is_offered_model - model_version_exists - param_unknown - param_invalid - param_override_not_allowed - upload_incomplete - upload_mismatch - model_in_use - rate_limited - internal_error reason: type: string hint: type: string param: type: string retryable: type: boolean detail: {} path: type: string requestId: type: string pattern: ^req_[0-9A-HJKMNP-TV-Z]{26}$ required: - code - reason - retryable - requestId required: - error FactoryClipCounts: type: object properties: total: type: integer minimum: 0 inProgress: type: integer minimum: 0 accepted: type: integer minimum: 0 flagged: type: integer minimum: 0 rejected: type: integer minimum: 0 failed: type: integer minimum: 0 required: - total - inProgress - accepted - flagged - rejected - failed securitySchemes: simforgeToken: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- A `sfc_at_…` access token from `simforge login`, or an `sfk_…` API key. An operation's security lists the scopes the credential must hold. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.