Orq.ai is an AI gateway and LLMOps platform from Amsterdam, founded in 2022 as Orquesta. It routes 500+ models from 30+ providers through one API compatible with both the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs, and its MCP gateway applies the same policies, guardrails, and audit trail to agent tool calls.
Around the gateway, Orq.ai adds tracing with OpenTelemetry ingest, online evaluators, experiments and datasets, versioned prompts, a managed agent runtime, and RAG knowledge bases. Budgets can hard-block spend at the workspace, project, user, key, provider, or model level, and a Smart Router picks a model per request by cost and quality.
Orq.ai is built around EU sovereignty, which is its clearest difference from other AI gateways: it's EU-built and EU-hosted by default, and Enterprise adds VPC, on-premises, and air-gapped deployment. Gateway seats are unlimited and usage bills by spans and data, while AI Studio seats cost €35 a month and a platform fee applies to model traffic.
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Enterprises, especially in the EU and regulated industries, that need governed access to LLMs and agents with data residency
Respan covers the same ground as Orq.ai in one platform: the AI router, tracing, evals, and prompt management. The difference is in how the gateway is billed. Respan credits carry no processing fee, and any provider discount Respan gets is passed straight through.
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