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Orq.ai
Orq.ai is a software company from Amsterdam whose platform combines an AI gateway for more than 500 models with observability, evaluations, prompt management, governance, and managed agents, and has just launched a Software Factory for autonomous software delivery.
Product and platform teams in finance, health, and other regulated fields that want a single gateway with tracing, evaluations, and governance, and that value an EU-based vendor.
Teams that want a stand-alone evaluation tool with deep experiment design, and buyers who want one simple price in dollars instead of a mix of credit fees, span counts, and seats.
Verdict
Orq.ai is worth a look when the hard part of shipping AI is operating it: one gateway for more than 500 models from 30 providers, tracing and evaluation on the same traffic, and SOC 2 Type 2 compliance. The evaluation tools are one part of a wide platform, so teams that mainly need experiment design may find the specialists deeper.
Score Breakdown
These scores cover how Orq.ai handles gateway control, evaluation and experiments, governance and compliance, and observability, and then how it does as a company on innovation, communication, pricing, and contract terms.
Who Uses Orq.ai, Where It Fits on Price, and Its Competitors
Orq.ai is a platform for running AI in production. Its gateway connects to more than 500 models from over 30 providers through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, with an MCP gateway and a smart router that Orq says decides in under 40 milliseconds. Around the gateway sit tracing and monitoring, evaluations, prompt management, governance controls, and managed agents. Orq's homepage shows testimonials from bunq, Brand New Day, and Caro Health, and the company is based in Amsterdam.
Orq.ai prices pay as you go, with a 4.5% fee on Orq credits, 100,000 spans a month included, AI Studio seats at €35 a month, and a custom Enterprise plan. Its closest competitors are Braintrust, Confident AI, HoneyHive, and Hamming AI, which focus more narrowly on evaluation and observability, and Vellum, which offers prompt and workflow tooling.
Pricing
We checked Orq.ai's pricing page and recorded its pay-as-you-go fees, its seat price, and a custom Enterprise plan. Prices are in euros.
| Plan | Price | What stands out |
|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | 4.5% fee on Orq credits | One million bring-your-own-key requests a month are free, then the fee is 4%. The plan includes 100,000 spans a month, then €7 per 100,000. |
| AI Studio seats | €35 a month | Seats for the people who build in the AI Studio. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Adds contract terms and support beyond the self-serve plan. |
| Security | Included | SOC 2 Type 2, according to Orq's pricing page. Its homepage FAQ describes ISO 27001 as in progress. |
The Field at a Glance
How Orq.ai compares with other eval and quality vendors we reviewed, by Overall Score and relative typical engagement cost.
Orq.ai scores 7.4 in eval and quality, under Braintrust (7.8), Confident AI (7.7), HoneyHive (7.7), and Hamming AI (7.5), and ahead of Arga Labs (7.0), Vellum (7.0), and Openlayer (6.5).
How Well Orq.ai Fits Each AI Operations Use Case
We rated Orq.ai against the situations teams bring to an AI operations platform, drawing on its homepage, pricing page, and about page and December 2025 funding coverage.
| Use case | Fit | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| One gateway for many model providers | Strong | More than 500 models from over 30 providers behind OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints, plus an MCP gateway. |
| Tracing and monitoring production traffic | Strong | Spans are priced and included in every plan, and the same platform carries the evaluations. |
| Governance in regulated companies | Strong | bunq's GenAI lead says Orq's gateway met the bank's governance, scalability, and cost-monitoring requirements. |
| Running experiments and evaluations | Mixed | Evaluations are part of the platform, and specialists such as Braintrust and Confident AI center their products on them. |
| Autonomous software delivery | Mixed | The Software Factory is newly launched and open in early access. |
| Budgeting from one posted price | Mixed | Fees are posted, and a bill combines credit fees, spans, and seats. |
Review Excerpts
These excerpts come from testimonials Orq.ai posts on its homepage, which the company chose, and from the buyer concern we found on its pricing page. Paid reviews and pay-for-play sites were excluded.
“We chose Orq.ai to replace our internal setup with a production-ready AI Gateway that meets our governance, scalability, and cost-monitoring requirements.”
“Where Orq.ai really stands out to me is how comprehensive it is. It truly covers the entire process from A to Z.”
“The fees are listed, but between credits, spans, and seats I can't tell what a month will cost, and the ISO 27001 status is described two different ways.”
Where customer reviews couldn't be found, our analysts attempted to give a voice to buyer sentiment, drawing on real information from review sites, forums, and product documentation.
Based on: Orq.ai pricing
Company Facts
- Founders
- Sohrab Hosseini and Anthony Diaz (Orq.ai about)
- Headquarters
- Amsterdam (Orq.ai about)
- Funding
- A €5 million seed round led by seed + speed Ventures and Galion.exe in December 2025, bringing total funding to €7.3 million (Tech.eu)
- Products
- AI gateway, observability, evaluations, prompt management, governance, managed agents, and Software Factory (Orq.ai)
- Security
- SOC 2 Type 2 (Orq.ai pricing)
- Website
- orq.ai
Key Leadership
Sohrab Hosseini
Co-founder
Orq.ai's about page lists him as a founder of the company, which was previously called Orquesta (Orq.ai about).
Methodology
We scored Orq.ai on eight criteria, from gateway and routing control to contract fairness, and the Overall Score is their simple average on a 0 to 10 scale. The scores draw on reviews from public review sites and forums, with paid reviews and pay-for-play sites excluded, plus a hands-on look at the product, its pricing, and its documentation and training. Scores can change as we add reviews and product checks.