Arcade

Arcade is an MCP-native runtime that connects AI agents to external systems so they can take real actions, built by Arcade AI, Inc. It positions itself around the three problems that stop most agents at the demo stage: 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. Named customers on the site include LangChain, Snyk, Relevance AI, YUR, Sybill, and Eddo Learning. Integration coverage is now 44 integrations exposing what Arcade markets as over 8,000 prebuilt, agent-optimized tools with built-in auth, which it calls the largest catalog of its kind in the MCP ecosystem. Named services include GitHub, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Slack, and teams can build custom tools through the SDK. An auth event is one-time per user per service, so after the first authorization, subsequent tool calls to that service run without re-authentication. Pricing verified live on arcade.dev/pricing in July 2026, in USD. Free at $0 with no credit card includes 2,000 auth events per month to connect agents to user accounts and 2,000 tool calls per month to take actions, fully managed on Arcade Cloud with community support on Discord and GitHub. Team at $25 per month adds a platform fee plus usage, billed at $0.10 per auth event and $0.01 per tool call, with next-business-day email support. Enterprise is custom-priced. It adds annual bundles of auth events and tool calls, discounted overage rates, and deployment on Arcade Cloud, in your VPC, or fully air-gapped. Enterprise also includes 24/7 SLA-backed support, a dedicated forward-deployed engineer and account team, and SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and private registry access. The Team plan is a starting point, not a ceiling. The $25 platform fee covers a small production footprint, and real cost scales with auth events at $0.10 and tool calls at $0.01 each, so high-volume agents should model usage before committing. SSO, RBAC, audit logs, VPC or air-gapped deployment, and SLA support are Enterprise-only, so teams that need them will not find them on Free or Team. Arcade is not the right fit for non-technical teams. It requires SDK integration and has no visual builder, so no-code tools such as Zapier and Make ($9/mo billed annually) better serve business users connecting the same class of SaaS tools. On data handling, Arcade's privacy policy states that user data is used to provide and improve its services, including training Arcade AI models, with no general opt-out, though Google Workspace data is explicitly carved out. Teams with strict data policies should weigh this against Composio, which states it does not train on user data. Current state Q3 2026: Arcade has repositioned from a tool-execution platform to the runtime for production AI agents, leading with authorization and governance. The catalog stands at 44 integrations and over 8,000 tools, and the ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp repository has 981 stars. G2 shows 6 reviews at 4.7 stars. Arcade advertises SOC 2 compliance, displays an AICPA SOC badge, and runs a Trust Center at trust.arcade.dev. The badge does not state the report type and the Trust Center is access-gated, so the specific SOC 2 report type is not publicly confirmable, and no ISO 27001 is claimed.