Archestra vs. BAND Comparison Chart

Archestra is an open source, self-hosted AI platform for deploying and governing agents across an organization. It provides agentic chat for non-developers, apps and skills, shared projects, a server-side agent runtime, MCP orchestration, permission-aware RAG, LLM and MCP proxies, security guardrails, and observability in one platform. Users sign in with SSO, and every tool call runs under that person’s own identity rather than a shared service account. Projects keep chats, files, scheduled tasks, and instructions together, while agents run in sandboxed containers and can start from schedules, emails, or webhooks. MCP servers run in the organization’s own Kubernetes environment and move through security-reviewed promotion flows with separate credentials and network policies. Knowledge bases can connect Confluence, Jira, drives, and internal documents while preserving source-system ACLs, so users only retrieve content they are already allowed to access.