Arcade

Arcade.dev calls itself "the actions runtime for enterprise AI agents." In practice it sits between an agent and the systems it needs to touch (Gmail, Salesforce, GitHub, Slack, Snowflake, and others) and does three things: enforces OAuth-based, per-user scoped authorization so an agent never holds more access than the human behind it; executes the actual API call through a library of prebuilt, agent-optimized tools instead of a thin wrapper the agent has to improvise around; and governs the result by writing one audit record per action (agent, user, resource) that can stream to a SIEM. Credentials and tokens are handled by Arcade's runtime, not passed through the model or the client. Source: arcade.dev (fetched 12 October 2026) and arcade.dev/blog/arcade-series-a.

As of 12 October 2026, arcade.dev/pricing lists three tiers. Free: $0/month, 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls per month, fully managed on Arcade Cloud, community support. Team: $25/month platform fee plus usage — auth events at $0.10 each and tool calls at $0.01 each, still on Arcade Cloud, with next-business-day email support. Enterprise: custom pricing, with annual bundles of auth events and tool calls, discounted overage rates, 24/7 SLA support, a dedicated account team, and SSO/RBAC/audit logs/private registry access. Source: arcade.dev/pricing (fetched 12 October 2026). Note for buyers: a workload that burns through the Team tier's usage fast — e.g. an agent re-authenticating or calling tools at high frequency — moves from a flat $25 to a bill that scales with every event, which is worth modeling before committing.

Arcade.dev (Arcade AI, Inc.) has raised $72M total: a seed round plus a $60M Series A announced 12 June 2026, led by SYN Ventures with strategic investment from Morgan Stanley and Wipro, with SYN partner Jay Leek joining the board. On 28 September 2026 the company announced Cisco Investments joined as a strategic investor, extending that same (oversubscribed) Series A round rather than opening a new one. Sources: arcade.dev/blog/arcade-series-a and arcade.dev/blog/cisco-investments-backs-arcade (both vendor blog posts, self-reported but typical primary sources for funding news). CEO and co-founder is Alex Salazar; the team's stated prior employers include Okta, Snowflake, Redis, Airbyte, and MongoDB, per the same sources and arcade.dev — these backgrounds are vendor-stated and not independently verified here.

The framework for building MCP servers and tools — arcade-mcp — is open source under the MIT license: 1,049 GitHub stars, 120 forks, 27 open issues, and a commit pushed 9 October 2026, i.e. actively maintained, not abandoned. It's published to PyPI; the latest release is 1.16.2. The governance layer — hosted auth, the control plane, audit logs, RBAC, SSO — is the paid Arcade Cloud/Enterprise product and is not in that repository. So "self-hosted" here means you can run the open-source MCP server framework yourself for free, or self-host the full Arcade platform via a Helm chart on your own Kubernetes cluster — but per the pricing page, VPC and air-gapped deployment options are sold as an Enterprise-tier feature, not included on Free or Team. Sources: api.github.com/repos/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp (fetched 12 October 2026), pypi.org/pypi/arcade-mcp/json, docs.arcade.dev/en/operate/deploy/helm, arcade.dev/pricing.

Arcade's homepage states the platform is "SOC 2 compliant" with SSO, RBAC, and audit logs "out of the box" — this is a vendor claim, not independently verified here. The company operates a Vanta-hosted trust center at trust.arcade.dev, which is real and live, but its actual compliance documents (SOC 2 report, sub-processor list) sit behind an access request gate and could not be read for this listing. A public status page at status.arcade.dev (incident-history feed, live) exists separately. Sources: arcade.dev and trust.arcade.dev (both fetched 12 October 2026).

Arcade's site names LangChain (testimonial attributed to co-founder/CEO Harrison Chase), Snyk (quote from Randall Degges, Head of Developer & Security Relations), Relevance AI, Sybill, and Eddo Learning as users, plus unnamed references to a "Fortune 100 Financial Institution" and a "Nasdaq-100 Consumer Internet Brand." These are vendor-published testimonials and logos, not independently corroborated customer references. Source: arcade.dev (fetched 12 October 2026).