What Orq.ai does

Orq.ai is an Amsterdam-based AI engineering platform founded in 2022 by Sohrab Hosseini and Anthony Diaz. The company provides a sovereign, European-rooted platform for the full AI agent lifecycle, spanning orchestration, evaluation, observability, and governance. Its product stack is organized around an AI Studio workspace with integrated modules: an AI Gateway that routes requests across 400+ models from 28+ providers with built-in fallbacks and cost visibility; an Agent Runtime for deploying autonomous agents with tools, memory, and multi-agent coordination; Evaluation tooling for offline and online quality measurement; a Knowledge Base for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG); and full-stack Monitoring & Observability. Enterprise modules include a Governance/Control Tower and a Shared Library for versioned prompts, skills, MCPs, and tools. The platform supports multimodal inputs (text, image, audio, code, structured data) and is framework-agnostic, integrating with LangGraph, OpenAI Agents, CrewAI, Vercel AI, Pydantic AI, Agno, and OpenTelemetry.

The company serves AI-native startups, SaaS companies integrating GenAI features, AI consultancies, and large enterprises operating in regulated industries. Its go-to-market is hybrid: product-led growth via a self-serve free tier at my.orq.ai complemented by enterprise field sales targeting buyers that need SSO/RBAC, audit logs, and EU data residency. Pricing combines freemium, recurring subscriptions (Enterprise tier, billed annually), and usage-based charges for tracing, logging, and routing volume—most notably the standalone AI Router, which carries no markup on routing. The company holds SOC 2 Type II certification, is GDPR-compliant, is compliant with the 2024 EU AI Act, and is progressing toward ISO 27001 formal certification, with infrastructure running on Google Cloud Platform's compliant data centers.

Orq.ai had raised a total of €7.3 million as of December 2025, including a €5 million oversubscribed seed round co-led by seed+speed Ventures and Galion.exe, with participation from Curiosity, Spacetime, XO Ventures, xdeck ventures, Waves Capital, and GoldenEggCheck. The company had 25–30 employees, served 100+ companies across Europe and North America, and was named a Gartner Emerging Leader in the 2025 Emerging Market Quadrants. Strategic advisors from QuantumBlack/McKinsey, Mollie, and Picnic support enterprise GTM. Revenue and ARR are not publicly disclosed.

Name

Orq.ai

Legal name

Orq.AI Holding B.V.

Website

https://orq.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2022

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Orq.ai is an Amsterdam-based AI engineering platform that provides full-lifecycle tooling—orchestration, evaluation, observability, and governance—for building and operating production AI agents. It serves AI-native startups, SaaS companies, AI consultancies, and regulated enterprises across Europe and North America via PLG and enterprise sales.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

AI Engineering Platform

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (5182)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

AI Application Enablement Platforms (Copilot/Agent Frameworks, SDKs) (HDAEANAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

AI Observability, Monitoring & Evaluation Platforms (Drift, Quality, Safety) (HDAEANAF), Model Serving, Inference & Deployment Platforms (APIs, Edge/On-Prem) (HDAEANAC), Responsible AI, Security & Privacy Platforms (Safety, Guardrails, PII) (HDAEANAG)

Keywords

• AI engineering platform
• LLM orchestration software
• AI agent lifecycle management
• LLM evaluation tools
• Generative AI gateway

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Subscription: Subscription-based SaaS model with tiered pricing tiers including Enterprise plan. Customers pay recurring fees for platform access with features like SSO/RBAC, audit logs, and EU data residency at higher tiers. Additional consumption-based charges may apply for usage beyond plan limits.
2. Usage-based charges: Metered or consumption-based charges for API usage, routing, tracing, and logging services based on volume. The AI Router standalone product is priced without platform markups on routing, charging only for tracing and logging services based on volume.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Orq.ai is a sovereign AI engineering platform that enables software, product, and AI teams to build, deploy, evaluate, observe, and govern LLM-powered AI agents across the full lifecycle. Its flagship offering is the AI Studio workspace, with integrated modules including Agent Runtime, AI Gateway (also available as a standalone AI Router), Evaluation, Knowledge Base (RAG), Monitoring & Observability, and AI Governance/Control Tower. The platform is framework-agnostic, routes requests across 400+ models from 28+ providers, and is designed for European regulatory compliance.

Product overview

Orq.ai is a sovereign, European AI Engineering platform providing a unified platform-plus-modules architecture for building, evaluating, deploying, and governing AI agents in production. The core offering consists of AI Studio as the unified interface, with integrated modules: Agent Runtime for deploying autonomous agents with built-in tools and orchestration; AI Gateway for routing across 400+ LLM models from 28+ providers (available as standalone product); Evaluation for measuring AI quality with offline/online evals, golden sets, and LLM-as-judge; Knowledge Base for RAG-as-a-Service with data ingestion and retrieval; and Monitoring & Observability for full-stack traces and real-time dashboards. Enterprise modules include AI Governance/Control Tower for compliance and risk monitoring, and Shared Library for collaborative prompt and tool management. Additional tools include Orq MCP for coding assistant integrations, AI Chat for team interactions, Auto Router for intelligent model selection, Skills for agent capabilities, and Playgrounds for prompt experimentation.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Studio Primary unified platform workspace for engineering and product teams to build, evaluate, and ship AI applications, providing workspace management, project organization, API keys, environments, and access controls.
• Agent Runtime Runtime environment for deploying and managing autonomous AI agents with built-in tools, memory stores, MCP support, Agent2Agent protocol, real-time orchestration, streaming, and guardrails, handling infrastructure complexity so teams can focus on agent logic.
• Standalone AI Router (AI Gateway) Standalone LLM gateway product routing requests across 400+ models from 28+ providers with built-in fallbacks, retries, Auto Router, budget control, caching, BYOM, and finops. Priced without platform markups on routing, charging only for tracing and logging on a usage basis. Deployed within customer infrastructure for regulated industries like financial services and healthcare.
• Evaluation

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced AI solution build time from 6 weeks to 2 weeks
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration9 records

AI capability13 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship and core.

• QuantumBlack/McKinsey AdvisorsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 December 2025Strategic advisors from QuantumBlack/McKinsey providing guidance on enterprise AI strategy and market positioning
• Mollie AdvisorsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 December 2025Strategic advisors from Mollie providing guidance on fintech integration and European market expansion
• Picnic AdvisorsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 3 December 2025Strategic advisors from Picnic providing guidance on e-commerce and consumer AI applications
• Google Cloud PlatformcoreTechnology or IntegrationInfrastructure provider delivering cloud services with ISO 27001/SOC2 compliant data centers for storing customer data and enabling platform delivery

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• LangChain: LangChain provides a framework and platform for building LLM-powered applications and agents, with LangSmith for observability and evaluation. It is the most directly comparable LLM application enablement platform to Orq.ai, serving similar engineering teams building production AI applications.
• Portkey: Portkey offers an AI gateway for routing across LLMs with observability, prompt management, and evaluation capabilities. Its feature set — model routing, fallback, observability, governance — overlaps closely with Orq.ai's AI Gateway and Agent Runtime.
• Helicone: Helicone is an open-source LLM observability platform providing logging, monitoring, and evaluation for AI applications. It competes directly with Orq.ai's observability and evaluation modules among engineering teams building production LLM apps.
• Arize AI: Arize AI provides an LLM evaluation and observability platform with tracing, evaluation, and monitoring for AI applications. It targets the same enterprise engineering teams as Orq.ai's Monitoring & Observability and Evaluation products.
• Langfuse: Langfuse is an open-source LLM engineering platform offering tracing, evaluation, prompt management, and analytics. It overlaps significantly with Orq.ai's evaluation, observability, and prompt management capabilities, particularly among developer-led teams.
• Humanloop: Humanloop provides an LLM evaluation and observability platform for enterprise teams building production AI applications. Its focus on prompt management, evaluation, and collaboration overlaps directly with Orq.ai's Shared Library, Evaluation, and AI Governance offerings.
• Weights & Biases: Weights & Biases offers an MLOps and AI observability platform with experiment tracking, model evaluation, and production monitoring. It competes with Orq.ai in AI observability and lifecycle management, especially with teams scaling AI workloads from experimentation to production.
• LlamaIndex: LlamaIndex provides a framework and platform for building RAG and agent applications, with data ingestion, retrieval, and orchestration tooling. It directly overlaps with Orq.ai's Knowledge Base (RAG), Agent Runtime, and orchestration capabilities.

Broad incumbents

• OpenAI (Agents / Evals / Traces): OpenAI has been steadily building native agents, evaluations, and tracing tools as part of its Responses API and Agents SDK. As the dominant upstream model provider, OpenAI can bundle observability and agent lifecycle capabilities directly into its platform, posing a long-term competitive threat to standalone platforms like Orq.ai.
• Datadog: Datadog is an enterprise observability platform that has expanded into AI/LLM monitoring with LLM Observability and sensitive data scanning. It is a broad incumbent that could expand its observability footprint to compete more directly with Orq.ai's monitoring and governance modules in larger enterprise accounts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/orq_ai
• GitHubgithub.com/orq-ai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/orqai

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds3 records

Investors8 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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