OrcaRouter

What it is

OrcaRouter grades every prompt and routes it intelligently. Frontier-quality AI at up to 40% lower cost. Adaptive routing, load balancing, guardrails, agent firewall, observability, and governance — all through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. One line. We grade each prompt, route to frontier or OSS, and add $0. Drop-in OpenAI-compatible, or connect agents over the OrcaRouter MCP server — keep your SDK, framework and editor. Smart routing and automatic failover on every request. Every prompt is embedded and routed by a model that keeps learning online from real traffic. On the public RouterArena leaderboard (Jun 2026) it leads on accuracy — ahead of GPT-5, Azure, Martian and NotDiamond — at 75.5%. When a provider rate-limits or 5xxs, OrcaRouter retries the request against a healthy model across 200+ options before the response starts — so transient upstream outages don't surface to your users. See and prove every call — cost, model, latency, and why. See exactly what every request cost, which model served it, how long it took, and why it failed — full structured logs you can filter, replay, and copy as a runnable cURL. A route is never a black box. You pay each provider their exact price — we add $0 per token, ever. Every request shows the grade, chosen model, provider, latency, and price, so cost is glass-box, not an opaque blended rate. Versioned prompts and caching — without a redeploy.

What to verify before adopting

• Confirm current pricing, usage limits, supported regions, and contract terms on the official website.
• Test integrations, export paths, access controls, and failure recovery with low-risk data first.
• Review privacy, data retention, security, and compliance requirements for your market.
• Keep a migration or rollback plan before making the product part of a critical workflow.