Orq.ai

What it does

Orq.ai is a platform for teams that build and run LLM applications and agents. Its core is an AI Gateway: applications send requests to one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and Orq.ai routes them across 500+ models from 30+ providers with fallbacks, retries, load balancing, budgets, guardrails and PII redaction. Each request is recorded as a trace showing cost, tokens and latency.

The pricing page also lists building and operating features, including an agent runtime, knowledge bases, prompt management, experiments and evaluators. Teams can use their own provider keys or Orq-managed credits, and can route coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, and MCP servers, through the gateway.

Developers sign up, create an API key and change the base URL; a CLI can connect coding agents. It is aimed at engineering and platform teams, especially in enterprises that need cost limits and audit trails. Model usage is billed at provider rates on top of Orq.ai's own fees, and the newer Software Factory is early access and not covered by this listing.

What it can do

• Route requests across 500+ models from 30+ providers through one OpenAI-compatible API
• Set fallbacks, retries, load balancing and smart routing by cost, speed and quality
• Enforce budgets, spend limits, guardrails and PII redaction on requests
• Trace every request with cost, tokens and latency, with OpenTelemetry support
• Govern MCP servers and tool calls through an MCP Gateway
• Build and test agents with prompts, knowledge bases, evaluators and experiments

Works with

• OpenAI
• Anthropic
• Google
• Mistral
• Claude Code
• Cursor
• Codex
• Warp
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenAI Agents SDK

Before you choose

• Model traffic is billed at provider rates; Orq.ai fees (a percentage fee plus spans and processed data) are on top, and the estimator on the pricing page is an example, not a quote.
• AI Studio seats, agent runs, knowledge bases and Teams features are separately metered or priced.
• Software Factory is early access and is not part of what this listing covers.

Listed under

• Coding
• DevOps and observability
• MCP and agent tools
• AI routing
• API
• Cost control
• Developers
• Enterprise
• Governance

Get started

Sign up, create an API key and point your base URL at the gateway; no card required.

1. Create an Orq.ai account and open the AI Gateway.
2. Connect a provider by using Orq.ai credits or adding your own provider key, then enable a model.
3. Create an API key, send a request to the gateway endpoint and inspect it in Traces.

Pay-as-you-go: unlimited AI Gateway seats, 100k spans and 1 GB processed data per month included, BYOK 1M requests per month free. Model traffic is billed at provider rates. AI Studio seats EUR 35 per seat per month and Teams EUR 300 per month are separate add-ons. Enterprise volume, SSO and compliance terms are custom. The percentage fees have no currency.

Source: orq.ai/pricing, checked 1 Nov 2026. Prices can change; check before you buy.

Sources for this overview

Product pages, documentation, and pricing checked 1 Nov 2026. Each source supports part of the overview; availability and prices can change.

• Orq.ai | Sovereign AI Gateway & AI Software Factory ↗orq.ai
• AI Gateway - Orq.ai Documentation ↗docs.orq.ai
• AI Gateway Pricing: Pay as You Go | Orq.ai ↗orq.ai
• AI Gateway for Enterprise: One API for 500+ LLMs | Orq.ai ↗orq.ai

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Last checked 1 Nov 2026. Every field keeps its source and date; unknown means we couldn’t confirm it.