Adapt vs Bardeen (2026)

Adapt

by Adapt

Bardeen

by Bardeen

Pros

• ✓Works where teams already are: Slack (including a Slack app under the customer's own name and icon), the web app, a Chrome extension that can take browser actions, email, and iMessage or RCS texting.
• ✓A hosted MCP server (beta) with OAuth sign-in lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and other MCP clients run an Adapt agent with full company context, and models can run on the customer's own keys at no markup.
• ✓SOC 2 Type II certified, with a stated commitment that customer data is never used to train AI models, an optional zero data retention mode on Managed, and natural-language policies that can require approval before named actions.

Limitations

• –Microsoft Teams is not listed among Adapt's surfaces or integrations, so organizations that do not use Slack rely on the web app, browser extension, email or text messaging, and Adapt's security page still marks granular role-based permissions as coming soon.
• –Managed pricing combines a per-user fee with metered sandbox compute, storage, memory and gateway model usage, which is harder to forecast than a flat subscription, and there is no free hosted tier.
• –The open-source edition is offered through a waitlist rather than as a public repository, and independent reviews are limited to a small number on G2.

Pros

• ✓Scrapes any website a user can open in Chrome, including logged-in sites with no API, using custom scrapers or maintained templates for sources such as Crunchbase, LinkedIn and Zillow.
• ✓Scraping, AI web search, AI qualification and contact enrichment run in one Playbook, and the Magic Box builds automations from a plain-language description.
• ✓Every account keeps 100 free credits a month, paid plans start at $10 per month, and imports, utilities and CSV downloads use no credits.

Limitations

• –Work is metered by credits: one per scraped or AI-processed row and three per enriched row, and unused credits expire at the end of each billing period.
• –Bardeen publishes no API documentation or MCP server, and CRMs such as Salesforce and HubSpot are fed partly through CSV import.
• –Bardeen runs as a Chrome extension, and Enterprise pricing, custom scrapers and premium support are sold through sales.