How much does Orkes cost?

Orkes publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Developer Edition up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.

What is the difference between Developer Edition and Enterprise on Orkes?

Enterprise costs On request against Free, and adds availability sla up to 99.99%, orkes-hosted or customer-hosted deployment, dedicated technical account manager, security features, rbac and architectural guidance.

Which automation integration tools can I use without paying?

4 of the 8 automation integration tools listed alongside Orkes have a free tier: jBPM, Nango, Meltano, Decodable.

Does Orkes charge per user?

The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.

Are these Orkes prices current?

They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.

What should I compare Orkes against before paying?

The closest automation integration tools in this directory are HighByte Intelligence Hub, Cyclr, jBPM, Alloy Automation. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Orkes covering price, platforms and features.

Automation Integration · pricing

Orkes pricing

Orkes publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.

As of 31 August 2026, Orkes pricing is free across 2 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.

Entry price: Free
Model: Quote
Tiers: 2
Free tier: Yes

Orkes plans, side by side

Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.

Orkes pricing tiers
Plan	Price	Features listed	Step up from the tier below
Developer Edition	Free	4	Entry tier
Enterprise	On request	5	Priced on request

What each tier adds

The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.

Developer Edition

Free

The entry tier. It covers all conductor oss features plus enterprise capabilities, sandbox for prototyping only, rate limits and resources may change without notice, community support and no production sla.

Enterprise

On request

Over Developer Edition, this tier adds:

Availability SLA up to 99.99%
Orkes-hosted or customer-hosted deployment
Dedicated technical account manager
Security features, RBAC and architectural guidance
No pricing published

Where Orkes stops being free

Developer Edition, Free

All Conductor OSS features plus enterprise capabilities
Sandbox for prototyping only
Rate limits and resources may change without notice
Community support and no production SLA

No paid tier on record

Orkes lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.

What the product covers

The full Orkes feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.

Other

JSON workflow definitions
Polyglot workers
Visual workflow builder
AI and LLM tasks
Human tasks
Event handlers
RBAC and secrets
Hosted or self-hosted

People bring Orkes in for a microservices estate that needs orchestration across services written in different languages without a shared sdk, a team already running conductor oss that wants a supported distribution now that netflix has stopped maintaining it, an ai platform composing agent steps, model calls and vector lookups as versioned workflow definitions, a business process needing human approval steps interleaved with automated service calls. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Orkes are worth a look before you commit to a tier.

How that compares in Automation Integration

Too few automation integration tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.

Orkes entry price against other Automation Integration tools
Tool	Entry price	Model	Rated	Head to head
Orkes (this page)	Free	quote	-
HighByte Intelligence Hub	$18500/year	Per site per year	-	vs Orkes
Cyclr	$1595/month	Per month by API call volume	-	vs Orkes
jBPM	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Orkes
Alloy Automation	On request	quote	-	vs Orkes
Nango	Free, then $50/month	Per connection per month	-	vs Orkes
Meltano	Free	Open source, no licence fee	-	vs Orkes

Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Orkes badges page.

Before you pay for Orkes

Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.

What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.

Orkes runs on linux, docker, kubernetes, cloud, and is published by Orkes of Cupertino, California, United States. The full record is on the Orkes review, and the rest of the category is under best automation integration tools.

Orkes pricing on the vendor's own site

Orkes pricing questions

How much does Orkes cost?: Orkes publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Developer Edition up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
Does Orkes have a free plan?: Yes. The Developer Edition tier costs nothing and covers all conductor oss features plus enterprise capabilities, sandbox for prototyping only, rate limits and resources may change without notice.
What is the difference between Developer Edition and Enterprise on Orkes?: Enterprise costs On request against Free, and adds availability sla up to 99.99%, orkes-hosted or customer-hosted deployment, dedicated technical account manager, security features, rbac and architectural guidance.
Which automation integration tools can I use without paying?: 4 of the 8 automation integration tools listed alongside Orkes have a free tier: jBPM, Nango, Meltano, Decodable.
What am I actually paying for with Orkes?: The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a microservices estate that needs orchestration across services written in different languages without a shared sdk, a team already running conductor oss that wants a supported distribution now that netflix has stopped maintaining it, an ai platform composing agent steps, model calls and vector lookups as versioned workflow definitions.
Does Orkes charge per user?: The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
Are these Orkes prices current?: They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
What should I compare Orkes against before paying?: The closest automation integration tools in this directory are HighByte Intelligence Hub, Cyclr, jBPM, Alloy Automation. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Orkes covering price, platforms and features.