Choose Your Platform Option
Orbit provides two options for teams building domain-specific agents. Both give you access to the same platform foundation: starter kits, development tools, Orbit Flow components, and marketplace integration. The choice depends on where you want to host your agents.
Pick Your Option
Orbit-hosted development toolkit where your team builds, tests, and publishes agents to the marketplace. You then host production agents in your own infrastructure.
- Orbit manages the development environment
- Full toolkit with starter kits, templates, and testing tools
- Publish agents to marketplace for others to discover
- You deploy and host your production agents separately
Complete platform toolkit your team deploys and manages in your own infrastructure, including development tools, marketplace, and production runtime.
- Deploy the entire Orbit platform in your infrastructure
- Full control: development, testing, marketplace, and production
- Private agent marketplace within your organization
- Complete data residency and security control
At‑a‑Glance Comparison
| Orbit Console | Orbit Hosted | |
|---|---|---|
| What Orbit manages | Development environment only | Nothing (you deploy everything) |
| What you manage | Your production infrastructure | Complete platform + production infrastructure |
| Agent development | Build & test in Orbit Console | Build & test in your deployed platform |
| Agent hosting | You host in your infrastructure | You host in your infrastructure |
| Starter kits & toolkits | Full access | Full access + complete customization |
| Agent marketplace | Publish to community marketplace | Private marketplace + optional community |
| Data & security control | Your production data only | Complete control over all data |
| Best for | Teams wanting managed development tools | Teams requiring complete infrastructure control |
What's Next?
- Choose your option and read the Console or Hosted pages above.
- Explore the building blocks: Orbit Flow components you'll use.
- See the development tools: Agent Services, Starter Kits, Marketplace, Platform Standards.
Remember: With either option, you always host your own production agents. The choice is whether you want Orbit to manage your development environment (Console) or deploy everything yourself (Hosted).
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