Orca is an open-source app that runs Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents in parallel, each in its own worktree, in chat or terminal, on a laptop or in the cloud, with an orchestrator that splits tasks across workers.
Best for Developers who want an orchestrator agent to split work across parallel coding agents, on desktop or mobile.
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Assessment. An open-source orchestrator for coding agents with worker agents in their own worktrees, chat and terminal views, a browser and a CLI, on desktop and mobile, with heavy test automation. It collects anonymous usage data by default, and the cloud option's pricing wasn't found.
Facts
Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
- Auth
- None
- Pricing
- Free · Free · OSS
- x402
- No
- Licence
- MIT
- Capabilities
- agent.harness agent.multi-agent
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
- Source
- github.com/stablyai/orca
- llms.txt
- not found
- Last release
From our research 1 fact checked against the vendor's pages
- Surface graded
- The open-source app, read from a clone of github.com/stablyai/orca on 7 November 2026. The onorca.dev docs weren't read. Nothing installed
Facts verified 7 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown
Strengths
- An orchestrator agent splits a task across worker agents in their own workspaces
- Chat UI or the raw CLI, switching without losing context
- Desktop and mobile apps and a CLI
- MIT, with extensive unit and end-to-end CI
Weaknesses
- Anonymous usage data collected by default, with an opt-out
- Cloud pricing not found on the pages read
- No changelog file
Before you call it notes for agents
- See the telemetry docs on onorca.dev to opt out of anonymous usage data
- Use the orchestration CLI to hand a large task to one agent that starts workers
Who's behind it provenance 40/100
- Legal entity namedLovecast Inc.20/20
- Domain ageonorca.dev, no registry record we could read0/15
- Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
- Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the MIT licence stands in10/10
- Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
- Status pagenot found0/10
- Changelognot found0/10
- security.txtnot found0/10
- People namednot researched yetn/a
- Support routenot researched yetn/a
Terms and privacy, as read
Terms of service none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The MIT licence stands in and the check scores in full.
Privacy policy none to read
TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.
A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.
Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.
The licence names Lovecast Inc.. The repository is github.com/stablyai/orca.
Checked 2026-11-07 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.
Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 16:01 UTC
- security.txt none · 1 hour ago
Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/orca.json
Notable
- The repository has about 90 GitHub Actions workflows covering Windows, WSL, macOS, SSH and mobile source
Reviews by the Anchor panel
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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run
Assessed on 7 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.
| Category | Weight this run | Score | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliabilitychecked 7 November 2026 | 16%20 | 11.6 | |
| Local software. Desktop and mobile builds and a Homebrew cask (20). Unit, end-to-end and platform test workflows; pass state not read (15). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Tags to v1.4.251, no changelog file (8). Version 1.4 (15). 20 + 15 + 0 + 8 + 15 = 58. | |||
| Performancenot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Schema & documentationchecked 7 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 10.6 | |
| Harness reading. A docs site with CLI orchestration and native chat pages (65). | |||
| Agent ergonomicschecked 7 November 2026 | 13%16.2 | 11.4 | |
| Harness reading. An orchestrator agent that splits work across workers in their own workspaces, chat or raw CLI, a browser and a CLI in one app (70). | |||
| Security & authchecked 7 November 2026 | 14%17.5 | 7.5 | |
| Harness reading. Anonymous usage data with an opt-out, per the README's link to its telemetry docs (15 of 30). Worktrees per agent and a sandboxed Linux build (12 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log (5). A dependency-security workflow (6 of 20). 15 + 12 + 5 + 5 + 6 = 43. | |||
| Payments & pricingchecked 7 November 2026 | 10%12.5 | 5.0 | |
| Scored on the cloud option. No protocol (0). The cloud price wasn't found on the pages read (0). The desktop app is free and MIT with no card (20). The local app needs no sign-up that we found (20). 0 + 0 + 20 + 20 = 40. | |||
| Task successnot scored in this run | 10%pending | pending | n/a |
| Maintenance & communitychecked 7 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 6.6 | |
| Tags to v1.4.251 and commits on 6 November 2026 (30). Many releases in 90 days (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Current builds (15). Extensive CI (10). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 10 = 75. | |||
| Transparency & trusteditorial 68, provenance 40checked 7 November 2026 | 7%8.8 | 4.7 | |
| MIT (30). Privacy and telemetry docs on the site (not read) (18 of 30). No deprecation policy (5). Disclosed with an opt-out (15 of 20). 30 + 18 + 5 + 15 = 68. | |||
| Negative events | ≤15 | None recorded | 0 |
| Total | 57.4 · C | ||
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Graded 57.4 C methodology v0.7
Fix list 12 items, the biggest gain first
Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Orca. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.
You're lucky. As part of the beta, your first month is free.
What we couldn't check
- unchecked: cloud pricing, the telemetry docs and issues
Sources 2
- repository README, licence, workflows, tags and docs, shallow clone github.com · seen 2026-11-07
- lead, the Conductor alternatives list the founder pasted on 7 November 2026, and awesome-agent-orchestrators github.com · seen 2026-11-07
Probe metrics
Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.
Pricing & changes
Free Free · OSS Free and open source. You pay for the coding agents it runs, through your own subscriptions or API keys (checked 2026-11-07).
Recent changes
- Latest release
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Install
Download from the releases page or Homebrew (Casks in the repository)Alternatives to Orca
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Machine-readable
| Similar tool | Grade | Score | Shared capabilities | x402 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| goose Agentic AI Foundation (originally Block) | BB | 71.3 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| AXLR Underpass AI | BB | 70.6 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| OpenHands All Hands AI | BB | 70.3 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| OpenCode Anomaly | B | 68.8 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| Qwen Code Alibaba (Qwen team) | B | 68.7 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
| Kilo Code CLI Kilo Code Inc. | B | 68 | agent.harness agent.multi-agent | no |
Machine-readable
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/api/v1/tools/orca.json· historyhistory.json· badge/badges/orca.svg· changes feed/feeds/tools/orca.xml - Markdown
/tools/orca.md· slim/tools/orca.min.md(or sendAccept: text/markdown) - What the fix list covers
/fixes/orca.md·/fixes/orca.json· the whole listPOST /api/v1/fix-list - From a terminal
anchor tool orca --md(the CLI) · over MCPget_tool {"slug": "orca"}at/mcp, no key - Directory index
/api/v1/tools.json· site index/llms.txt - No HTTP
dig +short TXT orca.grade.anchorterminal.com(the grade as a DNS record, for a sandbox where names still resolve; how)
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