Orq.ai review (2026): is the free plan enough?
AI gateway with observability, governance and managed agents
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Orq.ai report card
Good · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 13, 2026
Best for one gateway for many AI models
Orq.ai puts 500+ models and MCP tools behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with logging and guardrails. Pay-as-you-go has no platform fee, but it adds a 4.5% fee on its own keys, charges for seats and usage past the caps, and puts SSO on a €300 add-on.
Who Orq.ai is for
- 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
Who Orq.ai is not for
- 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
Why Orq.ai gets a 2.6
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for moneyPay-as-you-go carries no platform fee, though extra seats are €35 each and usage is billed past the included amounts. Prices are in euros.
- BFree plan and trial10 seats, 100k spans, 5 GB and 500 agent runs a month are included, with 30-day retention and 100 requests a minute. Enough for one developer, tight for a product.
- CFeaturesGateway, MCP gateway, observability, agents and guardrails. SSO and fine-grained roles cost €300 a month extra on the self-serve plan.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. It is a developer service: you wire in API keys and point your code at the endpoint.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb console and an API, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Okta listed. No desktop or phone app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Orq.ai's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Orq.ai's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 139 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 20.
It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 144 of 178) and worst on features (C, above 2).
Its paid plans start at about $39.10 a month for each person, against a middle price of $25 for the category: 66 of the 98 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 29 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 179 AI agents we grade, cut by the letter each got. Orq.ai’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 135 of 178, level with 25
- BFree plan and trialAbove 144 of 178, level with 22
- CFeaturesAbove 2 of 178, level with 130
- CEase of useAbove 36 of 178, level with 132
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 47 of 178, level with 121
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 109 AI agents. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep Orq.ai, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Orq.ai you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 139 of the 178 other AI agents we grade. It costs $469.22 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google among them, and has an API.
- What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: audit logs.
What this rests on. Orq.ai’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Orq.ai?
Orq.ai is a European AI platform whose main product is a gateway that routes requests to many model providers and MCP tools under shared policies, budgets and logging. It also offers managed agents, evaluation tools and an AI governance layer, plus a Software Factory in early access that uses agents to plan, build and test software.
Worth knowing
- 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.
Key features
- 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.
Orq.ai pricing
As of Nov 13, 2026, Orq.ai has a free plan, and paid plans start at €35 per extra seat / month beyond the 10 included, plus usage.
- Starts at
- €35 per extra seat / month beyond the 10 included, plus usage
- Free plan
- Pay-as-you-go has no platform fee: 10 AI Studio seats, 100k spans, 5 GB processed data and 500 agent runs a month included.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Adds AI governance, audit logs, on-prem and VPC options, SOC 2 report, custom DPA, uptime SLA and Slack or Teams support. |
Read from orq.ai on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Orq.ai before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- StartupsStartup, 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.
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Common questions
Does Orq.ai have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Orq.ai is listed for Web.
Does Orq.ai have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 13, 2026. Orq.ai is listed for Web.
Is Orq.ai open source?
Orq.ai is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 13, 2026.
Does Orq.ai have an API?
Yes. Orq.ai offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026.