# Orkes Conductor review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Workflow orchestration for AI agents and services, built on Conductor Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Orkes Conductor is a managed workflow orchestration platform from the founding team of the open-source Conductor project, which began at Netflix. It runs AI agents, services and human approval steps in one durable execution, with the state saved at every step. Workflows can be built in a visual editor, with SDKs, or through coding agents. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** Orkes - **Website:** https://orkes.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a price, as Enterprise is quoted through a demo. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Orkes Conductor has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Developer Edition: free managed sandbox with the open-source features and most Enterprise features, for individual developers and not for production use. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Developer Edition | $0 | Free managed sandbox for prototyping, with community support. Meant for one developer, not production. | | Enterprise | Custom | Hosted by Orkes or in your own cloud account, SSO, audit logs, support with SLA-backed response times, up to a 99.99% availability SLA. | Read from https://orkes.io/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Orkes Conductor before buying. ## Key features - **Agents and workflows together:** Orchestrates agent decisions, service calls and human approvals in one execution that keeps its state at every step. - **Visual editor and SDKs:** Workflows can be built visually or defined in code, with open-source SDKs for Java, TypeScript, Python, Go, C# and more. - **LLM tasks and prompt studio:** The platform capability list includes LLM tasks and an AI Prompt Studio alongside human tasks, event handlers, webhooks and a scheduler. - **Hosting choices:** Fully hosted by Orkes, or hosted in the customer's cloud account or on-premises, with dedicated clusters and VPC options on Enterprise. - **Security controls:** Lists SOC 2 Type II, role-based access, single sign-on, audit logs, secrets and end-to-end data encryption. ## Good for - Engineering teams that need agent runs to be durable and auditable - Teams already using open-source Conductor that want a managed version - Developers prototyping workflows on a free sandbox ## Worth knowing - No prices are published: the Developer Edition is free and Enterprise is quoted through a demo. - The free Developer Edition is for individual developers and is not recommended for production or for teams. - Multiple user accounts and detailed access control need the Enterprise plan. - Support on the free edition is community-only. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Orkes Conductor runs agents and workflows together, with a visual editor, SDKs and LLM tasks. The free Developer Edition is for one person and not for production. Anything beyond that, including multiple users and access control, means a quote for Enterprise. - **Value for money: C.** No price is published, only a free sandbox and a quoted Enterprise plan. Nothing to compare against the category's $24 middle. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free managed Developer Edition with most Enterprise features, but only for individual developers, not for teams or production, with community-only support. - **Features: C.** Workflows, agents, a visual editor, SDKs, prompt studio and security controls. Multiple user accounts and detailed access control need Enterprise. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You model workflows in an editor or code with SDKs, which takes a learning curve. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web console, SDKs and an API, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini and GitHub listed. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Orkes's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - Orkes Conductor's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 81 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 41. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 47 of 178) and worst on features (C, above 2). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Orkes Conductor you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. Orkes Conductor is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on, SOC 2, audit logs and roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, GitHub **Tags:** Workflow automation, AI agents, Open source, Public API, No-code ## Alternatives - [LangGraph](https://toolgpa.com/tools/langgraph): Open-source framework for building controllable AI agents. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kognitos-vs-orkes-conductor) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://orkes.io/pricing - https://orkes.io - https://orkes.io/platform - https://orkes.io/about-us Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/orkes-conductor Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).