Enterprise alternative to Orq.ai

Standard Compute is the enterprise alternative to Orq.ai for companies that need a governed AI gateway on its own: one API to frontier and open-source models, each step sent to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it. Microsoft Entra SSO, a Europe rule, zero data retention, a budget per key, allow-lists and an audit log are set self-serve.

Orq.ai is a European platform for building, deploying and governing AI, with an AI gateway inside it. Companies look further when they only need the gateway and its controls, and Orq.ai places SSO and audit logs on paid tiers.

Create a company workspaceor write to contact@standardcompute.com

Why companies look for an alternative to Orq.ai

From Orq.ai’s own pricing and documentation, checked 9 November 2026:

  • A platform fee on credits: routing on Orq credits carries a 4.5% fee on top-ups, and platform usage is billed in spans, data and agent runs.
  • SSO behind paid tiers: Orq's SSO documentation places SSO on the Enterprise plan, and the pricing page lists it in the 300 euro a month Teams add-on.
  • Audit logs on Enterprise: audit logs are an Enterprise plan feature.
  • Data kept 30 days on pay-as-you-go: Orq's data compliance page sets 30-day retention on pay-as-you-go, with custom retention on Enterprise.
  • Model calls go where you route them: Orq hosts the platform on Google Cloud in the EU and sends each model call to the provider you choose.

What Standard Compute does differently

A single API gives you frontier and open-source models, and it routes each step to the cheapest model that can do it and the cheapest provider fast enough to serve it.

There is no fee on credits and no span or seat metering. Routine agent steps go to a model priced for that work and the hard step goes to a frontier model. You pay a flat monthly plan per person or app.

Control is set once for the company:

Processing in Europe

Set a Europe rule for your company, a team or a single key, and every request, including retries and fallbacks, is served only by approved European inference endpoints. If no European endpoint can serve it, the request is refused before your prompt is sent. Our EU gateway terminates TLS and runs in Finland, and your account data is stored in Frankfurt.

Zero data retention

Turn on zero data retention for your company, a team or a key, and every request is routed only to inference endpoints that commit to keeping no copy of your data. Teams and keys inherit the requirement and can never switch it off underneath you.

No training

Standard Compute never trains on your prompts or outputs. With a region rule or zero retention turned on, every request goes only to providers that commit not to train on it.

Single sign-on

Connect Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider so your people sign in with their work accounts. Employees sign in to Claude Desktop and Claude Code with their Microsoft work account through our EU gateway, and access follows your Entra groups through SCIM provisioning.

Teams and keys

Organize your company into teams, invite colleagues by email, and give every person and every app its own key, all under one company account.

Budgets

Every person and app gets a fixed monthly budget that never overruns, and you can set spending caps per key and for the whole company. Optional top-off from a prepaid company balance keeps critical agents running.

Allow-lists

Choose exactly which inference providers may handle your data, for the whole company, a team or a single key. New providers are never added without an admin's approval, and fallbacks can never route around your list. Decide which models each key can use.

Audit

Every admin change is recorded with before and after values, and you can export a record of every request showing the model, the provider that served it and the region rule in force, kept for 12 months.

Contract

Sign our Data Processing Agreement in the dashboard. It commits us to no training on your data, no retention of your content, and breach notification within 72 hours. We publish every sub-processor and give you 14 days' notice before adding a new one.

Standard Compute dashboard, Claude Microsoft sign-in setup: step 2 of 4, connecting Microsoft Entra provisioning with a tenant URL and a provisioning credential.
Setting up Claude sign-in with Microsoft work accounts in the Standard Compute dashboard. The company shown is example data.

Standard Compute and Orq.ai compared

Standard Compute compared with Orq.ai
Standard ComputeOrq.ai
PricingFlat monthly plan per person or app with no per-token surprises; Stripe invoices with your company name and VAT numberFree tier, then usage in spans, data and agent runs; extra seats 35 EUR; Teams add-on 300 EUR a month; 4.5% fee on credit top-ups
Cost routingEach step goes to the cheapest model that can do itSmart Router with a cost mode; fallbacks, retries, caching and load balancing
ModelsClaude, GPT, Gemini and open models (GLM, DeepSeek, MiniMax, Kimi) through one API500+ models from 30+ providers
Processing in EuropeEurope rule per company, team or key; retries and fallbacks stay on approved European endpoints; refused before sending if none qualifiesPlatform on Google Cloud in the EU; model calls can be restricted to EU endpoints
Zero data retentionPer company, team or key; lower levels cannot switch it offZDR provider filter; data kept 30 days on pay-as-you-go
Training on your dataNever trains on prompts or outputsNot used to train or fine-tune models
Single sign-onSAML SSO, Microsoft Entra ID included; Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with a Microsoft work account, SCIM from EntraSAML or OIDC with SCIM; Enterprise or Teams add-on
Teams and keysTeams, roles, a key per person and per appWorkspaces and projects; Admin, Developer and Researcher roles
Spend limitsFixed monthly budget per key; requests are refused once it is used; caps per key and per companyBudgets and alerts with hard caps
Provider and model allow-listsProvider allow-list per company, team or key; new providers need an admin; models chosen per keyRouting restricted to approved or EU endpoints; guardrails
Audit logAdmin log with before and after values; request export with model, provider and region rule, kept 12 monthsEnterprise
What you operateManaged service; nothing to hostManaged EU service; VPC and on-prem on Enterprise
Orq.ai column from Orq.ai's own public pages, checked 9 November 2026.

When Orq.ai fits

Orq.ai fits a product team that wants one platform for prompts, evaluations, agents and tracing alongside the gateway, with on-prem deployment on Enterprise.

Moving from Orq.ai to Standard Compute

Standard Compute’s API runs on stdcmpt.com. https://eu.stdcmpt.com is our EU gateway in Finland.

  1. Create a company workspace and set the rules once for the company: a Europe rule, zero data retention, and the providers and models you approve. Teams and keys inherit them.
  2. Create a key for each person and each application, each with its own monthly budget.
  3. Change the base URL from https://my.orq.ai/v3/router to https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1 and swap ORQ_API_KEY for a Standard Compute key. Model IDs keep the vendor/model form.
  4. Point Claude Code at https://eu.stdcmpt.com in place of https://my.orq.ai/v3/anthropic.
  5. Connect Microsoft Entra ID or your SAML identity provider so your people sign in with their work accounts, and set up Claude Desktop and Claude Code sign-in with Microsoft work accounts.
Environment: before and after
# Before
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://my.orq.ai/v3/router
OPENAI_API_KEY=$ORQ_API_KEY

# After: Standard Compute EU gateway
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1
OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_STANDARD_COMPUTE_KEY
Python, OpenAI SDK
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["STANDARD_COMPUTE_API_KEY"],
)

# "standardcompute" sends each step to the cheapest
# model that can do it. Or pin a model:
# model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5"
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="standardcompute",
    messages=messages,
)
Claude Code
# Claude Code adds /v1/messages itself
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://eu.stdcmpt.com
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=YOUR_STANDARD_COMPUTE_KEY
claude

Questions

Is there an Orq.ai alternative that is just the AI gateway?

Standard Compute is one gateway to frontier and open-source models with company controls: a Europe rule, zero data retention, Microsoft Entra SSO, teams, a budget per key, provider and model allow-lists and an audit log.

Is SSO available without an Enterprise plan?

SSO is set up self-serve in the dashboard, and Enterprise features can be bought one at a time or together. Connect Microsoft Entra ID or any SAML identity provider, and anyone on your verified domain joins your company automatically.

Are prompts stored?

We process your prompts in memory to serve each request and never write them to storage or logs. Request records hold metadata only: model, provider, tokens, cost and status.

Does the Europe rule cover inference?

Yes. With a Europe rule, every request, including retries and fallbacks, is served only by approved European inference endpoints. If no European endpoint can serve it, the request is refused before your prompt is sent.

How do we migrate from Orq.ai?

Create a company workspace and set your rules, then change the base URL from https://my.orq.ai/v3/router to https://eu.stdcmpt.com/v1 and swap the key. OpenAI-compatible client code stays the same.

Set up your company

Create a company workspace, invite your team and set your rules from the dashboard. Security questionnaires and procurement questions go to contact@standardcompute.com.

Create a company workspaceor write to contact@standardcompute.com

Sources (checked 9 November 2026)

  1. Orq.ai homewww.orq.ai
  2. Pricingwww.orq.ai
  3. EU regions FAQdocs.orq.ai
  4. Deployment optionsdocs.orq.ai
  5. Data compliancedocs.orq.ai
  6. SSOdocs.orq.ai
  7. Audit logsdocs.orq.ai
  8. Smart Routerdocs.orq.ai
  9. OpenAI-compatible APIdocs.orq.ai
  10. Claude Codedocs.orq.ai