# Arcade > Source: https://agentsindex.ai/arcade-dev Actions runtime that handles OAuth, per-user authorization and governance for every tool call an AI agent makes. - Best for: Arcade.dev is best for AI teams who need secure tool access and OAuth without building auth plumbing. Starting price Free From [arcade.dev/pricing](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/), checked 4 November 2026 - MCP server Yes - API Yes - Open source Partly - Self-host Yes [Docs](https://docs.arcade.dev/en/home) What we checked - Pages last read: 4 November 2026 - Facts checked: 5 facts From 7 sources - AI answers: Not named in any of 62 Buyer questions, our November check [How we check](https://agentsindex.ai/methodology) [Editorial policy](https://agentsindex.ai/editorial-policy#not-for-sale) [Visit Arcade](https://agentsindex.ai/go/arcade-dev) [Compare](https://agentsindex.ai/compare?cat=agent-tools-and-integrations&products=arcade-dev) ## At a glance - Categories: [Agent tools and integrations](https://agentsindex.ai/categories/agent-tools-and-integrations) [Agent frameworks](https://agentsindex.ai/categories/agent-frameworks) - Tags: Freemium, Self-hosted ### For developers - Works with: Google, Slack, Salesforce, X, LinkedIn, Gmail and 24 more ## What is Arcade? Arcade.dev is an MCP runtime platform for AI teams that need agents to authenticate, discover tools, and execute actions securely. It combines Secure Agent Authorization, Agent-Optimized Tools, MCP Framework, Secrets Management, Tool Discovery, Agent Lifecycle Governance, and Tool Execution, with integrations like Google, Slack, Salesforce, GitHub, Notion, Stripe, and Zendesk, and customers including LangChain, Snyk, Relevance AI, Prosus, Sybill, and Eddo Learning. Plans run Hobby Free, Growth $25/month, and Enterprise custom. ## What it actually does: agent authorization and action governance 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](https://www.arcade.dev/) (fetched 12 October 2026) and [arcade.dev/blog/arcade-series-a](https://www.arcade.dev/blog/arcade-series-a/). ## Pricing: a usable free tier, then metered usage 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](https://www.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. ## Funding and company stability 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](https://www.arcade.dev/blog/arcade-series-a/) and [arcade.dev/blog/cisco-investments-backs-arcade](https://www.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](https://www.arcade.dev/) — these backgrounds are vendor-stated and not independently verified here. ## Open-source core, closed hosted platform 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](https://api.github.com/repos/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp) (fetched 12 October 2026), [pypi.org/pypi/arcade-mcp/json](https://pypi.org/pypi/arcade-mcp/json), [docs.arcade.dev/en/operate/deploy/helm](https://docs.arcade.dev/en/operate/deploy/helm), [arcade.dev/pricing](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/). ## Compliance claims and what's verifiable 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](https://www.arcade.dev/) and [trust.arcade.dev](https://trust.arcade.dev/) (both fetched 12 October 2026). ## Customers and testimonials 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](https://www.arcade.dev/) (fetched 12 October 2026). Our take Check the execution and challenge ceilings on Hobby and Growth before rollout. Hobby includes 100 user challenges and 1,000 standard tool executions; Growth raises that to 600 challenges and 2,000 standard executions, with overages billed separately. ## How much does Arcade cost? Prices excluding tax, as Arcade publishes them. - Free · Free - Team · $25/month + usage - Enterprise · Custom [![Arcade](https://agentsindex.ai/img/1024/screenshots/arcade-dev/pricing.webp)](https://agentsindex.ai/img/1920/screenshots/arcade-dev/pricing.webp) Pricing page, captured 18 October 2026 [arcade.dev/pricing](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/), checked 4 November 2026 ### All plans and limits | Plan | Price | Main limits | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 a month | 2,000 tool calls / month | | Team | $25 a month | None stated | | Enterprise | Price on request | None stated | Read 9 November 2026 from [arcade.dev/pricing](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/). ## For AI agents - MCP server: Yes - API: Yes [Developer docs](https://docs.arcade.dev/en/home) ## What we checked on Arcade Yes Partly No What it costs to start Yes ### What the price counts Metered per tool call on top of a flat platform fee: Team is $25 a month plus $0.01 per tool call, Free includes 2,000 calls, Enterprise is quoted. > $25 / month platform fee Tool calls at $0.01 each Pricing plan cards, Team column [arcade.dev/pricing](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/) Checked 4 November 2026 What it costs to start Yes ### Free tier A standing Free plan can be self-served with no sales call and no card, carrying a monthly allowance of auth events and tool calls on the managed cloud. > $0 platform fee, no credit card required Plan cards, Free column, first bullet [arcade.dev/pricing](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/) Checked 28 October 2026 How you build with it Yes ### Public API A documented REST API at api.arcade.dev with a published OpenAPI 3.0 specification; use requires an Arcade account in good standing under its terms. > The base URL for all API requests is https://api.arcade.dev. Arcade API Reference page, opening paragraph [docs.arcade.dev/en/references/api](https://docs.arcade.dev/en/references/api) Checked 4 November 2026 How you build with it Yes ### MCP server Arcade federates its own, custom and third-party MCP servers into one endpoint that any MCP client can point at, and documents setup for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor and Copilot clients. > Arcade federates your MCP servers, Arcade-hosted, custom, or third-party, into a single endpoint. Pick which tools each gateway exposes, then point… "Under the hood", MCP Gateway [arcade.dev/product](https://www.arcade.dev/product/) Checked 28 October 2026 How you build with it Partly ### Open source The tool-building framework arcade-mcp is MIT-licensed on GitHub, but the vendor says only much of what it builds is open source, and the runtime platform itself is distributed as licensed images. > Much of what we build is open source, including the arcade-mcp framework for building and running MCP servers. "Who we are", final paragraph [arcade.dev/about](https://www.arcade.dev/about/) Checked 28 October 2026 ## Arcade alternatives - [Dify](https://agentsindex.ai/dify) · Open-source platform for building agents, agentic workflows and RAG pipelines, on cloud or self-hosted. · Free, then $59 a month Checked 22 Oct · Freemium · [Visit](https://agentsindex.ai/go/dify) - MCP server - API - Open source - Self-host - [TinyFish](https://agentsindex.ai/tinyfish) · The team behind TinyFish runs this listing · One web layer for agents: free search and fetch, plus hosted browsers and goal-driven web automation. · Free, then $0.002 per minute Checked 11 Nov · ISO 27001 · [Visit](https://agentsindex.ai/go/tinyfish) - MCP server - API - Open source - Self-host - Arcade and its 2 alternatives · All 2 publish a price. | Arcade | Free, then $25 a month | 4 Nov | | --- | --- | --- | | [Dify](https://agentsindex.ai/dify) | Free, then $59 a month | 22 Oct | | [TinyFish](https://agentsindex.ai/tinyfish) | Free, then $0.002 per minute | 11 Nov | ## Questions about Arcade - How much does Arcade cost?: Arcade has a free plan. Its paid plans are Team at $25 a month and Enterprise. From arcade.dev/pricing, checked 4 November 2026. - Does Arcade have an API or an MCP server?: It has an API. It has an MCP server. - Is Arcade open source, and can you host it yourself?: Part of it is open source. You can host it yourself. - What have we checked on Arcade?: 5 facts, under these headings: What it costs to start, how you build with it. - How do we check Arcade?: We hold 5 facts on Arcade, quoted from 7 pages. Facts and price last checked 4 November 2026. [How we check every listing](https://agentsindex.ai/methodology) ## Sources and changes Last changed 4 November 2026 Sources 7 - Read 4 November 2026 · [arcade.dev](https://www.arcade.dev/product/) /product - Read 4 November 2026 · [arcade.dev](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing/) /pricing - Read 4 November 2026 · [arcade.dev](https://arcade.dev/) / - Read 28 October 2026 · [arcade.dev](https://www.arcade.dev/about/) /about - Read 4 November 2026 · [docs.arcade.dev](https://docs.arcade.dev/en/references/api) /en/references/api - Read 18 October 2026 · [arcade.dev](https://www.arcade.dev/pricing) /pricing - Read 4 November 2026 · [arcade.dev](https://www.arcade.dev/product/warp-pipes/) /product/warp-pipes ## Similar in Agent tools and integrations [See all in Agent tools and integrations](https://agentsindex.ai/categories/agent-tools-and-integrations) - [ERIUS PHONE](https://agentsindex.ai/eriusphone) A dedicated virtual Android phone per AI agent, with Google Play apps and sign-ins that persist between sessions. 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Free plan, then $20 a month ## From our research [All research](https://agentsindex.ai/blog) - [Buyer's guide](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/workflow-automation-tools-pricing-what-you-pay-to-start) 27 Oct 2026 Workflow automation tools pricing: what you pay to start CloudPloy has the cheapest paid entry plan and GrantCue the dearest, free plans are common, and prices jump hardest at business tiers. - [Comparison](https://agentsindex.ai/blog/workflow-automation-where-each-platform-stops-being-free) 15 Aug 2026 Workflow automation for AI agents: where free tiers end Zapier, Make, n8n, Activepieces, Pipedream and Trigger.dev meter in six different units. Which free tier survives real agent work, which runs out first. - [Data table](https://agentsindex.ai/data/ai-assistant-apps-security) 12 Nov 2026 AI assistants for work: SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and SSO ## Is this yours? Claim it free, then see who reads this page and carry the verified owner mark. 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