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Orca is the place for working with a fleet of agents (e.g. Grok Bot, Claude Code). Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobil…

Open-source alternative toGrok Bot

Orca at a glance

Checked 19 Oct 2026

Orca is the place for working with a fleet of agents (e.g. Grok Bot, Claude Code). Run any coding agent with your own subscription. Available on desktop, mobil… Added from the nightly trending feed on 2026-10-18 with 95,906 GitHub stars. So far only the licence comes from GitHub; the other facts are unknown until someone checks them.

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How much of Grok Bot does it replace?

Use it instead of paying for Grok Bot?
Personal use
Unknown: Not checked Whether it runs on your own machine isn’t checked yet
For a business
Unknown: Not checked Commercial use isn’t checked yet

2 of 5 jobs. Draft: which jobs it covers is not checked yet.

No: Named bots with memory Not covered
No: Autonomous web browsing Not covered
Partial: File and code tasks in a sandbox Partial replacement
Partial: Scheduled agent tasks Partial replacement
No: Connectors to your apps Not covered

For named bots with memory, autonomous web browsing, connectors to your apps, see other Grok Bot alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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Runs on my machine? Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Code licence Confirmed: MIT github.com · orca#license ↗ 3d ago
Model weights licence Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Commercial use Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Paid services needed? Partial: No universal paid-service requirement verified. Orca accepts CLI agents; those agents may require their own paid subscription or API. Evidence summary (paraphrase): No universal paid-service requirement verified. Orca accepts CLI agents; those agents may require their own paid subscription or API. raw.githubusercontent.com · README.md ↗ 2d ago
Hardware Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Operating systems Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —
Setup effort Unknown: Not checked yet Know the answer? —

No licence changes since we started watching. Licence watch: follow Orca and we email you if its licence terms change.

Growth and activity in detail

Is it popular, and is anyone still working on it? From GitHub.

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  • Actively maintained100+ people committing, active 12 of the last 12 weeks.

497+ people committing in the last 12 months · 3930 pull requests merged in 30 days · 2572 issues opened, 1566 closed in 30 days

Stars over time

Building history

+3,698 stars since 18 Oct 2026. The 7-day comparison and the trend label start once there is a full week of daily counts.

  • Orca
99,78595,717 2026-10-182026-10-21 Tracked daily begins 2026-10-18Orca, 2026-10-18: 96,087 stars, trackedOrca, 2026-10-19: 97,081 stars, trackedOrca, 2026-10-20: 98,617 stars, trackedOrca, 2026-10-21: 99,785 stars, tracked
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Tracked daily since 18 Oct 2026. Dashed history: estimated from public records of when people starred the repo. Lines connect observations only; gaps contain no measured points.

Commits per week, last 52 weeks

active 12 of the last 12 weeks

About the same as the 12 weeks before.

Week of 26 Oct 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 2 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 9 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 16 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 23 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 30 Nov 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 7 Dec 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 14 Dec 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 21 Dec 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 28 Dec 2025: 0 commitsWeek of 4 Jan 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 11 Jan 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 18 Jan 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 25 Jan 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 1 Feb 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 8 Feb 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 15 Feb 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 22 Feb 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 1 Mar 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 8 Mar 2026: 0 commitsWeek of 15 Mar 2026: 122 commitsWeek of 22 Mar 2026: 270 commitsWeek of 29 Mar 2026: 128 commitsWeek of 5 Apr 2026: 250 commitsWeek of 12 Apr 2026: 319 commitsWeek of 19 Apr 2026: 295 commitsWeek of 26 Apr 2026: 405 commitsWeek of 3 May 2026: 411 commitsWeek of 10 May 2026: 566 commitsWeek of 17 May 2026: 653 commitsWeek of 24 May 2026: 1389 commitsWeek of 31 May 2026: 788 commitsWeek of 7 Jun 2026: 574 commitsWeek of 14 Jun 2026: 596 commitsWeek of 21 Jun 2026: 557 commitsWeek of 28 Jun 2026: 747 commitsWeek of 5 Jul 2026: 734 commitsWeek of 12 Jul 2026: 534 commitsWeek of 19 Jul 2026: 612 commitsWeek of 26 Jul 2026: 716 commitsWeek of 2 Aug 2026: 546 commitsWeek of 9 Aug 2026: 670 commitsWeek of 16 Aug 2026: 338 commitsWeek of 23 Aug 2026: 456 commitsWeek of 30 Aug 2026: 712 commitsWeek of 6 Sept 2026: 625 commitsWeek of 13 Sept 2026: 615 commitsWeek of 20 Sept 2026: 648 commitsWeek of 27 Sept 2026: 824 commitsWeek of 4 Oct 2026: 1167 commitsWeek of 11 Oct 2026: 1499 commitsWeek of 18 Oct 2026: 69 commits OctDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSeptOct Busiest week: 1499 commits. Focus or tap a bar for its week.
Where these numbers come from
  • Stars, forks, releases: GitHub's public API, fetched every night (last fetch today).
  • Star history: counted every night since 18 Oct 2026.
  • Commits and people committing: GitHub's repository statistics, counted weekly. Names are never stored.
  • Pull requests and issues: counted from GitHub for the last 30 days.
  • Stars show popularity, not quality. The facts below are checked separately, by reading the project's own documentation. How we check.

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