The Orq.ai Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Orq.ai in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Orq.ai
The Insider’s Guide
AI gateway with observability, governance and managed agents
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among AI agents, read from Orq.ai’s own pages.
Made by Orq.ai · checked Nov 13, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Orq.ai’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Orq.ai’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Nov 13, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.6
GPA, above 139 of the 178 other AI agents we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Orq.ai, taken from its own pages and our grades.
It is a developer service: you wire in API keys and point your code at the endpoint.
- 1
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.
- 2
Paid plans start at about $39.10 a month for each person
As its pricing page puts it: €35 per extra seat / month beyond the 10 included, plus usage.
- 3
There is a 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.
- 4
It runs on Web
Web.
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AI Gateway
One OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API for 500+ models from 30+ providers, with fallbacks, retries, caching and load balancing.
- 6
MCP Gateway
Routes calls to remote MCP servers under the same policies as model traffic, and traces each tool call.
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Observability
Every request becomes a trace with cost, tokens, latency and payloads, with OpenTelemetry ingestion and alerts.
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A 2.6 GPA, above 139 of 178
That is against the other AI agents we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
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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.
Orq.ai at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from €35 per extra seat / month beyond the 10 included, plus usage
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- None stated
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Orq.ai
- Category
- AI Agents
- Our grade
- 2.6 GPA, good
The report card
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B | Pay-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. |
| Free plan and trial | B | 10 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. |
| Features | C | Gateway, MCP gateway, observability, agents and guardrails. SSO and fine-grained roles cost €300 a month extra on the self-serve plan. |
| Ease of use | C | No store rating on record. It is a developer service: you wire in API keys and point your code at the endpoint. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web console and an API, with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Okta listed. No desktop or phone app. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
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 it 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
Good to know
Good for
- Teams routing several LLM providers through one governed endpoint
- European companies that want EU-hosted AI infrastructure
- Engineering groups that need traces and budgets across agents
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
~$39.10
A month to start, for each person. There is a free plan too
Orq.ai has a free plan. Paid plans start at €35 per extra seat / month beyond the 10 included, plus usage.
Enough for one developer, tight for a product.
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.
The 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.
Read from orq.ai on Nov 13, 2026.
Ways to pay less
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.
Stated on orq.ai
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
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Place it runs: Web
AI gateway with observability, governance and managed agents. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, AI agents, reports.
Gateway, MCP gateway, observability, agents and guardrails.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Mistral
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Codex
- Okta
Orq.ai is made by Orq.ai.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
139/178
Other AI agents it is graded above
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
- BFree plan and trialAbove 144 of 178
- CFeaturesAbove 2 of 178
- CEase of useAbove 36 of 178
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 47 of 178
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 109 AI agents. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Orq.ai is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Vellum, Agenta, LangGraph, Dify and AgentOps
The 5 tools Orq.ai is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.6GPA
Vellum
Free plan · from $30/mo
Personal AI assistant with long-term memory that acts across apps.
- Only Vellum lists macOS, Windows, iOS and Android apps.
- Only Vellum lists a browser extension.
- Vellum is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- 2.6GPA
Agenta
Free plan · from $29/mo
Open-source workspace for building team AI agents and automations.
- Agenta is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Orq.ai also covers reports.
- Agenta also covers templates, workflow automation and no-code.
- 2.6GPA
LangGraph
Free plan · from $39/mo
Open-source framework for building controllable AI agents.
- LangGraph is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Orq.ai also covers reports.
- LangGraph also covers workflow automation.
- 2.2GPA
Dify
Free plan · from $590/yr
Open-source platform for building AI agents and agentic workflows.
- Dify is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Orq.ai also covers reports.
- Dify also covers workflow automation and no-code.
- 2.2GPA
AgentOps
Free plan · from $40/mo
Tracing, debugging and cost tracking for AI agents.
- AgentOps is open source, according to its own site.
- AgentOps also covers dashboards.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
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Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Orq.ai free?
Orq.ai has a 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.
How much does Orq.ai cost?
Orq.ai lists 2 plans. Pay-as-you-go: €0.
What platforms does Orq.ai work on?
Orq.ai is available on Web.
Does Orq.ai offer any discounts?
Orq.ai publicly lists the following: Startup, academic, NGO and open-source discounts.
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.
What does Orq.ai integrate with?
Orq.ai's listing names OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Okta.
Who makes Orq.ai?
Orq.ai is made by a company of the same name.
What are the alternatives to Orq.ai?
The closest alternatives to Orq.ai in our directory are Vellum, Agenta, LangGraph, Dify and AgentOps.
How does Orq.ai compare with other AI agents?
Orq.ai's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 139 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 20.
Is Orq.ai good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Orq.ai B for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of Orq.ai?
To replace Orq.ai you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Orq.ai’s own pages on Nov 13, 2026, and the grades were given on Nov 13, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Orq.ai. Prices change, so check orq.ai before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
7,721
Tools graded, in 95 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
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categories
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price changes on record
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apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Orq.ai, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/orq-ai
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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