
Orkas
Open-source, local-first multi-agent orchestration platform
About Orkas
Orkas is an open-source, local-first platform for building and running teams of AI agents that collaborate to plan, delegate and complete multi-step work. Instead of a single chatbot that only answers, Orkas lets you stand up a group of specialized agents - a planner, researchers, coders, reviewers - that pass work between each other and drive a task to completion. Because it runs locally first, your prompts, files and intermediate results stay on your own hardware rather than being shipped to a vendor cloud, which matters for teams handling private code or sensitive documents.
Orkas combines a visual orchestration layer with an open, inspectable agent runtime. You can wire agents together into workflows, give each one its own tools and model, and watch the hand-offs happen step by step. The project is open-source and actively maintained, with frequent releases and a public repository the community contributes to, so the orchestration logic is auditable rather than a black box. Its credit-based hosted option exists for convenience, but the core is designed to run on your own machine with the models you choose.
You start by defining the agents that make up a team and the goal you want them to pursue. Each agent is configured with a role, a model and a set of tools it is allowed to use. Orkas then coordinates the agents: a planning agent breaks the goal into tasks, delegates those tasks to the agents best suited to them, and collects the results. Agents communicate through a shared orchestration layer, so a researcher can hand findings to a writer, or a coder can hand output to a reviewer, without you shuttling text by hand. You watch each hand-off in the interface, intervene when you want to, and keep the whole run local unless you deliberately reach for a hosted model.
- •Multi-Agent Orchestration - Compose teams of specialized agents that plan, delegate and review work among themselves, turning a single prompt into a coordinated workflow rather than a one-shot answer.
- •Local-First Execution - Run the platform and your agents on your own hardware so prompts, files and intermediate results stay private, with hosted models available only when you choose to reach for them.
- •Open-Source and Inspectable - The orchestration engine is open-source and actively maintained, so you can read, fork and extend the logic instead of trusting an opaque service.
- •Pluggable Models and Tools - Assign each agent its own model and its own toolset, mixing local and cloud models across a single team to balance cost, speed and privacy.
- •Visual Workflow Builder - Wire agents and their hand-offs together in a visual layer and watch tasks move between them step by step, making complex automations easy to design and debug.
- •Flexible Access - Use it free with a starting credit allowance, add a self-serve plan as your usage grows, or buy a one-time pack, so individuals and teams can scale on their own terms.
Perfect for developers building autonomous agent workflows, operations and research teams automating multi-step processes, and privacy-conscious organizations that cannot send their data to a third-party cloud. Engineers appreciate the open, inspectable runtime and the freedom to assign any model to any agent. Teams handling proprietary code or confidential documents value the local-first design that keeps work on their own machines. Tinkerers and open-source contributors will find a project they can read, extend and shape, while anyone who has outgrown single-prompt assistants gets a way to orchestrate real, coordinated work.
Pricing
- Free$0/mo
- Lite$11.99/mo
- Pro$19.99/mo
- Max$79.99/mo
- Lifetime Pack$10.99 once
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From the vendor pricing page, 2026-10-03














