OrcaRouter Launches as Official Actor on Web Automation Platform Apify, Enabling Seamless Access to Over 200 LLMs from 40,000+ Actors

FlashLabs, Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yoichi Hosoi), the Japanese distributor for the AI gateway "OrcaRouter," announced that it is now listed as an official Actor on the marketplace of "Apify," a global platform for web scraping and automation. This listing allows developers, through Actors running on Apify, to call over 200 LLMs—including those from OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), xAI (Grok), DeepSeek, and Qwen—from a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint without writing additional code. OrcaRouter is developed by Continuum AI (USA) and provided in Japan by FlashLabs.

Background and Goals

As generative AI implementation shifts from using a single model to leveraging multiple models, selecting the optimal LLM for each task is becoming standard practice in AI agents and web automation workflows.

However, each company's LLM API has a different specification, requiring code modifications every time a model is switched. This has created vendor lock-in and unnecessary spending on over-specified models.

Meanwhile, Apify, with its tens of thousands of Actors (scrapers and automation tools), is rapidly being adopted as a foundation for building AI agents. There has been a growing demand for an "affordable and flexibly integrable LLM backend."

By offering OrcaRouter on Apify, developers can directly embed cost-optimized, multi-model access into their automation workflows without additional code. This allows them to complete the entire process, from Apify's web data collection and automation to OrcaRouter's LLM routing, within a single environment.

Overview of the Apify Actor "OrcaRouter"

- **Pricing**: The OrcaRouter Actor on Apify is free to use. It requires your own OrcaRouter API key (sk-orca-). OrcaRouter can be trialed with free credits (see official site for pricing details). - **Key Features**: - Access over 200 LLMs with a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. - Supports major providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, and Qwen. - Features an "Adaptive Router" that selects the optimal model based on the prompt. - Supports chat completions, messages, embeddings, and model list APIs. - API key can be specified via environment variables or request headers (Authorization: Bearer / X-OrcaRouter-Api-Key). - **URLs**: - OrcaRouter on Apify - OrcaRouter Console (for API key acquisition) - **Example Models Available**: - OrcaRouter Fable 5 Fusion API - Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8 API - OpenAI GPT 5.5 API - Gemini 3.5 FlashAPI - MiniMax M3 API - DeepSeek V4 Pro API - Qwen3.7 Max API - Z.AI GLM5.2 API

Value for Businesses

1. **Seamless Integration with the Apify Ecosystem** Developers building AI agents or Actors on Apify no longer need to develop and maintain their own LLM proxies. By simply calling the OrcaRouter Actor, optimal model selection and cost optimization are applied automatically.

2. **Reduced Cost and Complexity of Multi-Model Operations** OrcaRouter centralizes operational burdens such as managing API keys from multiple providers, comparing prices for each model, and designing failover systems. This allows developers to focus on their core product development.

3. **Approximately 40% Reduction in LLM Spending Through Prompt-Level Optimization** OrcaRouter's learning-based routing with Contextual Bandits (LinUCB) delegates routine tasks to high-performance open models, achieving cost savings without compromising quality.

Future Developments

Through the expansion of the OrcaRouter ecosystem, FlashLabs aims to accelerate the resolution of the trifecta of challenges—cost, quality, and operational load—in AI adoption for Japanese companies. Following the collaboration with Apify, integrations with other major development tools are expanding, striving for a world where developers can use advanced AI routing within their familiar environments.

A Comment from the CEO

**Yoichi Hosoi, CEO of FlashLabs, Inc.** "Balancing cost and quality is a pressing issue for Japanese companies in their production AI operations. The integration with the Apify ecosystem has created an environment where the entire workflow, from web data collection to AI inference, can be optimized on a single platform. We will continue to contribute to creating an environment where Japanese developers and companies can use the optimal AI at the optimal cost, without being tied to any single vendor."

About OrcaRouter

OrcaRouter is an AI gateway developed by US-based Continuum AI Corp. It assesses the difficulty of each prompt and automatically routes complex inference to frontier models (like Claude, GPT-5.5) and routine tasks to high-performance open models (like DeepSeek, Qwen). It provides access to over 200 LLMs with a single endpoint and a single API key, featuring 0% routing fees, midstream failover, and guardrail functions as standard. Integration is completed by changing just one line—the base_url in the OpenAI SDK. FlashLabs, Inc. is responsible for its sales in Japan.

About FlashLabs, Inc.

FlashLabs is an AI applied research lab aiming to automate and ultimately autonomize sales and customer experience. By fusing the processing speed and accuracy of machines with human strategic insight in a "Human-AI Hybrid" approach, it delivers results that surpass conventional methods.

About Continuum AI

Continuum AI is the US-based AI company that develops OrcaRouter. Through its adaptive routing technology, it provides an efficient AI utilization platform that spans multiple LLM providers.

About Apify

Apify is a web scraping and automation platform headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic. It is known as one of the world's largest platforms, with over 40,000 Actors published.