Arcade

Arcade is an MCP-native actions runtime that connects AI agents to external systems so they can take real actions, built by Arcade AI, Inc. It positions itself around authorization, reliability and governance. Agents authenticate as real users through Arcade's prebuilt OAuth and auth-event handling, execute tools through Arcade-hosted MCP servers, and have every action logged per user and system. Arcade works with any MCP client, including Claude Desktop, Copilot Studio, Cursor and VS Code, and its open-source framework lets developers build custom tools in Python or JavaScript or bring existing MCP servers to Arcade.

Arcade's catalog lists 85 toolkits exposing more than 8,000 tools with built-in auth, including GitHub, Gmail, Google Drive, Salesforce, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Notion and Workday. An auth event is one-time per user per service, so after the first authorization later tool calls to that service run without re-authentication. The Arcade Plugin, released in October 2026, connects Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI and Codex to Arcade without configuring an MCP gateway, and Arcade also released a Private Registry that month.

Free costs $0 with no credit card and includes 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls per month, fully managed on Arcade Cloud with community support on Discord and GitHub. Team costs a $25 monthly platform fee plus usage, at $0.10 per auth event and $0.01 per tool call, with next-business-day email support. Enterprise is custom-priced and adds annual bundles of auth events and tool calls, discounted overage rates, deployment on Arcade Cloud, in a customer VPC or fully air-gapped, 24/7 SLA-backed support, a dedicated forward-deployed engineer, and SSO, RBAC, audit logs and private registry access.

Arcade's privacy policy, updated September 10, 2026, says collected information is used to provide and improve its services, including training Arcade AI models, while content retrieved from connected third-party accounts, including Google Workspace, is not used to develop, improve or train any AI or machine learning model. The policy addresses GDPR and CCPA. Arcade states that it is SOC 2 compliant and runs a Trust Center at trust.arcade.dev, where documentation is available on request.

Cisco Investments joined Arcade's oversubscribed Series A as a strategic investor in September 2026. Customers named on Arcade's site include LangChain, Snyk, Relevance AI, Duracell, Sybill, YUR and Eddo Learning. The ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp framework repository has 1.1k stars on GitHub, and G2 shows 6 reviews averaging 4.7.

Teams that want no-code automation across the same kinds of SaaS tools can look at Zapier or Make.com ($9/mo billed annually), and developers comparing agent tool platforms can also evaluate Composio.

Current state Q4 2026: Arcade positions itself as the actions runtime for production AI agents, with 85 toolkits and more than 8,000 tools in its catalog. Cisco Investments joined its Series A in September, and the Arcade Plugin and Private Registry shipped in October.