Orca
Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime.
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Our verdict
A usable project with some maintenance caveats. This assessment is derived from GitHub's own repository metrics on 2026-10-16, not from hands-on testing.
Orca is the ADE for working with a fleet of parallel agents. Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobile and remote runtime. The project is written primarily in TypeScript, released under MIT, and has 93,876 stars and 5,994 forks on GitHub. 446 contributors have committed to it, and the most recent push was 2026-10-16. The latest tagged release is v1.4.227 (2026-10-16). Figures come from the GitHub API on 2026-10-16 and are refreshed weekly; the score below weighs adoption, maintenance, release discipline, contributor breadth, licence clarity and issue hygiene.
Reviewed by AI Review Rating from GitHub API data How we score
Repository
- Licence
- MIT
- Language
- TypeScript
- Last push
- 2026-11-07
Releases
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mobile-android-v0.0.64Orca Mobile Android mobile-android-v0.0.64
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Pricing
- Free tierYes
- LicenceMIT
- Self-hostYes, source is public
- Public price listNot published
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Questions
Is orca free?
Yes. orca advertises a free tier on its own site.
How much does orca cost?
orca does not publish a web price list. For consumer apps that usually means pricing appears inside the product; for enterprise tools it means talking to sales.
Is orca open source?
Yes. orca is a public repository released under MIT. You can self-host or inspect the source directly.
How is orca scored here?
orca scores 7.1 out of 10. That comes from a desk review of public evidence, which is capped at 8.5 out of 10: public pricing, documentation, maintenance signals and how much we could actually verify. Affiliate relationships are excluded from scoring entirely. The full rubric is published on our methodology page.