The Router node (⇧ R) is an n↔n broadcast bus: wire multiple sources into it, and it fans everything out to multiple targets. Every content node type can connect to and from a Router. It’s the one node designed to sit in the middle of a busy graph.
Transparent to generation
A Router doesn’t hold or transform content itself. A node downstream of a Router resolves the Router’s real upstream sources exactly as if they were wired to it directly. The Router is invisible to the generation itself, it only manages the wiring.
Use it to
- Compare variants: fan one prompt or reference out to several Image or Video nodes with different settings, and judge the results side by side.
- Share references: feed the same set of references into many targets without drawing every edge by hand.
- Keep wiring stable: the fan-out survives swapping or deleting a source, so a busy graph doesn’t collapse mid-iteration.
- Bundle a messy fan-out into one hub, instead of a dozen crossing edges, route them all through one Router node.
Connect it
A Router accepts every content node type as an input, and outputs to every content node type plus Cloud Export, but it never carries Cloud Export as an input, since that’s a terminal node with no output of its own.
Some nodes only accept a Router as an input: Sketch is the notable example, since it has no toolbar button and instead usually arrives via the AI assistant or by connecting from a Router’s output. Last modified on August 29, 2026
