Overview

Rating

10.0 / 10

Rating

Best For

Google Cloud enterprises who need to manage AI API traffic

Best For

Enterprises, especially in the EU and regulated industries, that need governed access to LLMs and agents with data residency

Product Summary

Google Cloud's Apigee includes AI gateway capabilities for managing and securing generative AI API traffic, with model routing, token-based rate limiting, content moderation, and comprehensive analytics.

Product Summary

Orq.ai is an EU-hosted AI gateway and LLMOps platform with routing across 500+ models, tracing, evals, prompt management, and agent governance.

Starting Price

$0Per month

Starting Price

Free to startPer usage-based

Free Trial

Yes

Free Trial

Free Version

Yes

Free Version

Website

cloud.google.com

Website

orq.ai

Key features

Core capabilities each platform advertises.

Apigee AI Gateway

Google Cloud AI traffic management
API analytics and monitoring
Security and threat protection
Rate limiting and quotas
Multi-cloud support

Orq.ai

AI gateway for 500+ models with fallbacks, retries, and load balancing
MCP gateway with tool-level access control and audit logs
Smart Router for per-request model selection by cost and quality
Tracing, online evaluators, and alerts

Strengths and tradeoffs

What each tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.

Apigee AI Gateway

Pros

Production-ready
Good performance
Active development

Cons

Pricing varies
Setup required

Orq.ai

Pros

Gateway, observability, evals, prompts, and agent runtime in one platform
EU-hosted by default, with VPC, on-prem, and air-gapped options on Enterprise
Unlimited gateway seats, with usage billed by spans and data

Cons

A platform fee applies to model traffic: 4.5% on Orq credits, 4% on BYOK past 1M requests a month
AI Studio, the UI for prompts, agents, and experiments, costs €35 per seat per month

Apigee AI or Orq.ai — which should you choose?

Choose Apigee AI if you wantChoose if you want

Managing AI APIs on Google Cloud
Enterprise API security for AI endpoints
Usage metering and billing for AI services
Multi-cloud AI API management
Compliance and governance for AI traffic

Choose Orq.ai if you wantChoose if you want

Governing every LLM and tool call across an enterprise
Meeting EU data residency and EU AI Act requirements
Attributing AI spend by team, project, or customer

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10KFree traces/mo

1,000+Models

5 minSetup

Respan lets you trace LLM and agent calls across any model or framework, A/B test prompts on production traffic, and route requests across 1,000+ models through one gateway.

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Apigee AI Gateway vs Orq.ai (2026)

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