OrcaRouter | AI Gateway for LLM Routing, Guardrails & Governance
Introduction
OpenAI-compatible AI gateway for production apps: adaptive LLM routing, failover, guardrails, observability and governance across 200+ models.
OrcaRouter's Overview
OrcaRouter is an AI gateway and OpenAI-compatible routing platform that intelligently grades each prompt and routes it to the best model across 200+ options. It combines adaptive LLM routing, automatic failover, guardrails, observability, governance, prompt versioning, caching, and agent firewall controls in a single endpoint. OrcaRouter emphasizes zero token markup, direct provider pricing, higher availability, and lower AI inference costs, with fast setup using an existing SDK and one URL change.
OrcaRouter's Features
OpenAI-compatible single endpoint
Adaptive LLM routing for 200+ models
Automatic failover across healthy providers
Zero token markup and direct provider pricing
Per-request observability and structured logs
Prompt versioning with A/B splits and rollback
Guardrails including PII Shield and content policies
Agent firewall with ALLOW, REVIEW, and BLOCK controls
OrcaRouter's Q&A
OrcaRouter's Pricing
Hacker plan is Free forever with zero markup on all tokens, 200+ models, auto-failover, basic dashboard, prompt versioning, and 3 API keys. Team plan is $499/month with everything in Hacker plus up to 10 seats, compliance reports, unlimited API keys, and priority support. Enterprise pricing is custom with SLA commitments, private/on-prem deployment, dedicated infrastructure, and dedicated support. OrcaRouter states routing itself is free and revenue comes from optional team features.