Arcade vs Composio (2026)

Arcade

by Arcade AI, Inc

Composio

by Sampark Inc

Pros

• ✓MCP-native runtime with Arcade-hosted MCP servers on every plan from Free upward. Developers get managed server infrastructure that works with any MCP client, including Claude Desktop, Copilot Studio, Cursor, and VS Code, instead of self-hosting.
• ✓Over 8,000 prebuilt tools across 44 integrations with built-in OAuth. An auth event is one-time per user per service, so after the first authorization all later tool calls run without re-authentication.
• ✓Governance is built in, with per-user and per-system logging plus SSO, RBAC, and audit logs. The Free tier gives 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls per month with no credit card before the Team plan at $25 per month plus usage.

Limitations

• ⚠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 carved out. Teams with strict data policies should compare it with Composio, which states it does not train on user data.
• ⚠Arcade advertises SOC 2 compliance and shows an AICPA SOC badge, but does not state the report type publicly. Its Trust Center at trust.arcade.dev is access-gated, so security teams must request access to review compliance documentation, and no ISO 27001 is claimed.
• ⚠No no-code interface: the platform requires SDK integration for every use case, so business teams cannot use Arcade without engineering involvement. No-code tools such as Zapier and Make.com ($9/mo billed annually) serve non-developers connecting the same class of SaaS tools.

Pros

• ✓MCP Gateway provides a single standardized endpoint for all tool calls compatible with major agent frameworks including Claude, Cursor and Codex: developers avoid building and maintaining individual integrations for each external service their agents need to reach.
• ✓Managed OAuth and credential handling covers authentication across 1,500 plus toolkits automatically: Composio refreshes tokens, retries failed calls and handles rate limiting, and connected accounts are unlimited and free on every tier including the free one.
• ✓The free Hobby tier carries 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 trigger events a month with no credit card and a hard cap, so a team can test at production scale without creating a bill.

Limitations

• ⚠Composio is a developer-facing platform requiring SDK, CLI or MCP integration, so non-technical teams cannot adopt it without engineering involvement.
• ⚠Compliance features are priced per call on the 29 dollar Pro tier rather than included: a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement adds 0.0003 dollars per tool call, which doubles the base rate, and zero data retention and IP allowlisting each add a further per-call charge. All three are included only on Enterprise.
• ⚠Using a Composio-managed OAuth application instead of your own cuts the free monthly allowance from 100,000 tool calls to 20,000 and adds 0.0002 dollars per tool call on top of the base rate.