Open Core vs Platform

This page explains how the public packages relate to the full Orlo product.

Open Core

Open Core gives you reusable technical primitives:

Surface	Included
Shared contracts	Types, interfaces, chunking helpers
Validation	Deterministic validation and sandboxed custom rules
Runtime adapters	OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, vLLM, llama.cpp adapters
Agent SDK	Thin client and wrappers for agent-step governance
Studio	Web Components for Orlo-native UI surfaces

Open Core is mainly for developers and technical evaluators.

Platform

Platform gives you the full governed product:

Surface	Included
Control plane	Multi-tenant API, org-scoped isolation, persistence
Evaluation loop	Task, dataset, evaluation, recommendation, deployment
Retrieval	Hybrid retrieval orchestration and attribution
Feedback loop	Staging, review, promotion into datasets
Governance	Approvals, session persistence, policy storage, runtime limits

What is public today

This documentation set includes both:

• the public packages and how to use them
• the Platform APIs that customers integrate against

The public packages and the Platform APIs serve different needs.

Rule of Thumb

If you want building blocks, start with Open Core.

If you want the full loop from proving a task to operating it safely in production, you need Orlo Platform.