Agenta vs Orq.ai (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Agenta if

• Fits if you want one flat price for the whole team instead of paying per seat
• Works for jobs that repeat, like research briefs, code review and reports

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want the AI included, because model costs go to your own provider
• Pricey if you need SSO or access roles on the cloud, which start at $299 a month
• Tight if three of you want to stay free, as Hobby stops at 2 team members and 5,000 runs a month
• Watch out: Pro includes 10,000 runs a month, then $5 per 10,000 more, and keeps traces for 1 month
• Watch out: running agents on a Claude or ChatGPT subscription works only self-hosted, which means Docker Compose

Pick Orq.ai if

• Fits if you want one endpoint and one bill across several model providers
• Works for developers who need request logs and budgets before they pay for anything

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: using Orq.ai's own keys adds a 4.5% platform fee on model traffic
• Pricey if you outgrow the caps: €7 per 100k spans, €3 per GB and €35 per extra seat
• Tight if you need SSO or roles, which are a €300 a month Teams add-on
• Skip it if you want no-code, since you integrate it through an API
• Watch out: pay-as-you-go keeps data for 30 days and limits you to 100 requests a minute

Agenta

• AI model costs are not included: you connect your own provider credentials and pay the provider directly.
• The Hobby plan stops running agents after 5,000 runs in a month and allows 2 team members and 20 evaluations a month.
• On Agenta Cloud, SSO and role-based access control start at Business ($299 a month); audit logs and custom domains are Enterprise only.
• Running agents on a Claude or ChatGPT subscription works only on a self-hosted deployment, not on Agenta Cloud.

Orq.ai

• Prices are shown in euros. Model traffic is billed at provider rates, and the platform adds a 4.5% fee when you use Orq.ai's keys.
• Beyond the included amounts: €7 per 100k spans, €3 per GB processed, €0.01 per agent run with tools, €35 per AI Studio seat.
• SSO, SAML or OIDC and fine-grained RBAC are a €300 a month Teams add-on, and included on Enterprise.
• Pay-as-you-go keeps data for 30 days with a 100 requests per minute rate limit.

Agenta

Agents built by chatting

You describe the job in chat and refine the agent's instructions and skills as you go. Prebuilt templates cover engineering, support, sales, knowledge and operations.

Automations and triggers

An agent can run on a schedule or start when an event happens in a connected tool, such as a new pull request. Every run is logged with its duration and estimated cost.

Integrations, MCP and skills

Agents work across more than 1,000 integrations and any MCP server you add. Skills are reusable instruction files that can be swapped without rewriting the agent.

Harness and model choice

Three harnesses ship with it: Claude Code, Pi and Codex. Models come from your own provider accounts, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI.

Permissions, approvals and a secret vault

You decide which actions run automatically, which wait for approval and which are blocked. Credentials sit in a vault the agent can use but cannot read.

Tracing, evaluations and versions

Each run produces a trace of its model and tool calls, tokens and latency. Agent changes are versioned and can be compared, and evaluations include LLM-as-a-judge.

Orq.ai

AI Gateway

One OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API for 500+ models from 30+ providers, with fallbacks, retries, caching and load balancing.

MCP Gateway

Routes calls to remote MCP servers under the same policies as model traffic, and traces each tool call.

Observability

Every request becomes a trace with cost, tokens, latency and payloads, with OpenTelemetry ingestion and alerts.

Managed agents

An agent runtime with sub-agents, tools, knowledge bases, memory stores, prompt management, evaluators and scheduled runs.

Governance and guardrails

Budgets, PII redaction, guardrail rules and model restrictions, with audit logs, EU hosting and EU AI Act tooling on the higher tier.

Agenta

• Hobby$0

  Agenta Cloud with 2 team members, unlimited projects, agents and workflows, 5,000 agent runs a month and 1-week trace retention.

• Open source$0

  Self-hosted edition with unlimited users, agents and runs, role-based access control, SSO, tracing and evaluations. You run it yourself with Docker Compose.

• Pro$29

  per month, any number of users

  Unlimited team members, schedules and event triggers, 10,000 agent runs a month, then $5 per additional 10,000, and 1-month trace retention.

• Business$299

  per month, any number of users

  Everything in Pro plus team roles and role-based access control, SSO, a SOC 2 Type II report, 3-month trace retention and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Cloud or self-hosted, with audit logs, custom domains, deployment support, dedicated support and a custom service-level agreement.

Orq.ai

• Pay-as-you-go€0

  Unlimited requests with your own provider keys; 4.5% fee on credits when using Orq.ai's keys. Extra spans, data, seats and agent runs are metered.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Adds AI governance, audit logs, on-prem and VPC options, SOC 2 report, custom DPA, uptime SLA and Slack or Teams support.

Agenta

• Startups

  Discounted or free access for startups

  The pricing FAQ says early-stage startups can email the team to ask about discounted or free access, describing what they are building and how they plan to use Agenta.

• Education

  Discounts for students and researchers

  The same FAQ invites students and researchers to email the team about discounted or free access. No fixed rate is published.

Orq.ai

• Startups

  Startup, academic, NGO and open-source discounts

  The pay-as-you-go plan notes discounts for startups, academic users, NGOs and open-source projects; terms are not shown on the page.