I've got a few Orange Pi boards, but I think the rPi 5 does slot inbetween Orange Pi's offerings. The Orange Pi 5 is definitely nicer hardware, with an NVME M2 slot and rockchip's NPU (which I want for Frigate object detection on my home security cameras). But it's easily 100$, double the price of a rPi 5.

Their lower end board is in a more similar price point to the Raspberry Pi, the Orange Pi 3B with a Rockchip RK3566. And it is slower than the Raspberry Pi 5 in benchmarks I've seen. Though if you don't mind ordering from Aliexpress, it's more in the Pi 4's price range there and does beat out that in performance. It also has an NVMe slot which is why I picked it for my use.

Unfortunately it's also lacking a maintainer for Armbian: https://www.armbian.com/orangepi3b/ . With how fast they drop board support, I'm wary about long-term support from Orange Pi without Armbian. I've got an Orange Pi 4 (not the 4B or 4 LTS which are different) that they haven't released a new image for in years. Meanwhile Raspberry Pi OS still supports the rPi 1. Also ignore the order of numbers, the Orange Pi 4 is older and slower than the Orange Pi 3B.