Orq.ai vs Requesty
Orq.ai
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| Figure | Orq.ai | Requesty |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 2 | 3 |
| Spec score · LLM gateways | 7.9 (#15) | 8.5 (#8) |
| Spec score · LLM Gateway Software | 7.7 (#18) | 8.3 (#10) |
| Governance | Gateway controls include budgets, spend limits, guardrail rules, and PII redaction. | The site describes PII detection and scrubbing, content guardrails, team roles, model allowlists and audit logs. |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands | London, United Kingdom |
| Integrations | The pricing page lists compatibility with OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, Python and Node SDKs, remote MCP servers, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI, and OpenAI-compatible model endpoints. | Official integration guidance covers OpenAI SDK, LangChain, PydanticAI, Vercel AI SDK, Haystack, LlamaIndex, Axios and plain HTTP. |
| Observability | Orq.ai provides request traces, cost and token tracking, dashboards, and OpenTelemetry ingestion. | Requesty offers real-time cost tracking and analytics by model, user and team, plus latency and usage monitoring. |
| Routing | Smart Router can choose a model by cost and quality strategy, with fallbacks, retries, and load balancing available. | The gateway supports policy-based routing, regional routing, automatic failover and load balancing. |
| Support | The pricing page lists email support with priority SLA and a Slack or Teams channel as a Teams add-on; Enterprise includes Slack/Teams support. | The pricing page lists email support for Pay as you go and dedicated support with custom SLAs for Enterprise. |
| What it does | Orq.ai provides an AI gateway and platform to route, govern, and observe AI model and tool requests. | Requesty is an AI gateway that places one OpenAI-compatible endpoint in front of more than 600 language models. |
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In their own words
Orq.ai
Orq.ai is an AI gateway and platform for routing, governing and observing requests to models and tools. Through an OpenAI-compatible API, it lists more than 500 models from over 30 providers. Smart Router can select models by cost or quality strategy, with fallbacks, retries and load balancing. Controls include budgets, spend limits, guardrails and PII redaction. Observability covers request traces, cost and token tracking, dashboards and OpenTelemetry ingestion. Integrations include OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, Python and Node SDKs, remote MCP servers, Azure AI Foundry, Vertex AI and compatible endpoints. It supports Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more than 25 agent frameworks. Deployment options are EU SaaS, VPC and on-premises. Orq.ai says prompts, outputs and traces are not used to train models, and lists EU residency and retention controls. Pay-as-you-go is free, usage-based, with provider-rate model charges and stated allowances.
Requesty
Requesty is a managed AI gateway that gives applications access to more than 600 models through one API. Its OpenAI-compatible API can work with existing SDK code after changing the base URL and API key. Routing features include policy and regional rules, automatic failover and load balancing. Requesty tracks cost, latency and usage, with analytics by model, user and team. Governance options include PII detection and scrubbing, content guardrails, team roles, model allowlists and audit logs. Named integrations include OpenAI, LangChain, PydanticAI, Vercel AI SDK, Haystack and LlamaIndex TS; the integrations page also lists tools such as Claude Code, Cline, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, n8n, LibreChat and OpenWebUI. The Free plan costs nothing and allows 200 requests per day. Pay as you go costs $5 a month, with a 5% markup on model cost. Enterprise pricing is custom. Requesty is available via API and web; self-hosting is not offered.