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id: cloud/features/smart-orchestration/overview
title: Overview of smart orchestration in Cypress Cloud
description: >-
  Cypress Cloud provides Smart Orchestration features for use in CI to speed up
  test runs, accelerate debugging workflows, and reduce costs.
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source_path: docs/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/overview.mdx
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updated_at: '2026-08-14T12:36:26.878Z'
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# Smart Orchestration Overview

Cypress Cloud provides several Smart Orchestration features for use in CI to speed up test runs, accelerate debugging workflows, and reduce costs:

*   [Parallelization](/llm/markdown/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/parallelization.md): Reduce test duration by running multiple test spec files simultaneously across available CI machines.
*   [Load Balancing](/llm/markdown/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/load-balancing.md): Optimize CI resources and minimize test duration by intelligently prioritizing running of test spec files during parallelization.
*   [Spec Prioritization](/llm/markdown/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/spec-prioritization.md): Quickly verify that your latest changes fixed a build by prioritizing the specs that failed in the previous Cypress run.
*   [Auto Cancellation](/llm/markdown/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/run-cancellation.md): Automatically cancel a Cypress run once failures cross a threshold you set, so you stop paying for tests you'll never look at and free up CI resources to validate the fix.
*   [Re-run optimization](/llm/markdown/cloud/features/smart-orchestration/rerun-optimization.md) (experimental): When you rerun a failed CI run, re-run only the specs that contained failures and skip the specs that already passed, speeding up the path to a passing build.

Curious how much these add up to for your team? The [Cypress Cloud Savings Calculator](https://www.cypress.io/savings-calculator?utm_source=docs.cypress.io&utm_medium=smart-orchestration&utm_content=Savings+Calculator) estimates the annual time and CI cost you could save by orchestrating your runs.