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Arcade.dev

by Arcade

AI Agents & OrchestrationGovernance & SecurityDeveloper ToolsAgent Development

Ship agents, not auth infrastructure — the secure action layer for production AI agents.

Freemium · Usage-based·Added July 10, 2026·Updated July 10, 2026
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Arcade.dev

by Arcade

AI Agents & OrchestrationGovernance & SecurityDeveloper ToolsAgent Development

Ship agents, not auth infrastructure — the secure action layer for production AI agents.

Freemium · Usage-based

Arcade.dev is an MCP runtime and secure action layer that gives production AI agents user-scoped authorization, reliable tool-calling, and full governance across enterprise systems. It's built for teams moving agents from pilots to thousands of production workflows without over-privileged service accounts.

At a Glance

Category
AI Agents & Orchestration
Pricing
Freemium, Usage-based
Target Market
CTOs, Enterprise Developers, Platform Engineers, CISOs

Key Features

  • Agent authorization
  • Agent-optimized tools
  • Central control plane
  • Framework and model agnostic
  • Enterprise identity integration

Capabilities

text generation
image generation
video generation
code generation
workflow automation
api access
audio generation
fine tuning
agent orchestration

Use Cases

  • Move agents from pilot to production
  • Secure tool-calling
  • Agent governance and audit

Ideal For

Best For

  • User-scoped authorization for AI agents in production
  • Reliable, agent-optimized tool-calling across enterprise apps
  • Governance and audit trails for every agent action

Market Analysis

Enterprise-gradeDeveloper-firstSecurity-focused

Pros

  • Addresses the top blocker to production agents — secure action and authorization
  • Authored the MCP authorization spec adopted by Anthropic
  • Broad framework/IdP support and flexible deployment (cloud to air-gapped)

Cons

  • Reliability depends on coverage and quality of its prebuilt tool catalog
  • Competitive space with identity incumbents and other agent-infra startups

Pricing

Free

$0

  • Get started with the MCP runtime
  • Access to agent-optimized tools

Enterprise

Contact for pricing

  • Usage-based at enterprise scale
  • On-prem/air-gapped/hybrid deployment
  • SOC 2, SSO, RBAC, full audit logs

Free tier available; usage-based pricing designed for enterprise scale.

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Arcade.dev is an MCP runtime and secure action layer that gives production AI agents user-scoped authorization, reliable tool-calling, and full governance across enterprise systems. It's built for teams moving agents from pilots to thousands of production workflows without over-privileged service accounts.

At a Glance

Category
AI Agents & Orchestration
Pricing
Freemium, Usage-based
Target Market
CTOs, Enterprise Developers, Platform Engineers, CISOs

Key Features

  • Agent authorization

    Agents act as authenticated users with dynamic, IdP-based permissions scoped to a single action; credentials never leave the runtime.

  • Agent-optimized tools

    8,000+ MCP tools purpose-built so user intent maps to the right API call the first time, reducing hallucinations and retries.

  • Central control plane

    Unified auditing, policy enforcement, and action logging of which agent acted on behalf of which user against which resource.

  • Framework and model agnostic

    Works with any LLM and agent framework — Claude, Codex, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI — and any MCP client.

  • Enterprise identity integration

    Connects to Okta, Entra, and SailPoint with SOC 2, SSO, RBAC, and full audit logs across cloud, on-prem, air-gapped, and hybrid deployments.

Capabilities

text generation
image generation
video generation
code generation
workflow automation
api access
audio generation
fine tuning
agent orchestration

Use Cases

  • Move agents from pilot to production

    Enterprises deploy agents that act securely across thousands of workflows without over-privileged service accounts.

  • Secure tool-calling

    Agents reliably invoke Salesforce, Google Workspace, Slack, and Microsoft actions with the calling user's own permissions.

  • Agent governance and audit

    Security teams get a complete trail of every action an agent takes, on whose behalf, against which system.

Ideal For

Best For

  • User-scoped authorization for AI agents in production
  • Reliable, agent-optimized tool-calling across enterprise apps
  • Governance and audit trails for every agent action

Integrations

SDK Available
SDK:PythonJavaScript

Deployment

On-Premise

Market Analysis

Enterprise-gradeDeveloper-firstSecurity-focused

Pros

  • Addresses the top blocker to production agents — secure action and authorization
  • Authored the MCP authorization spec adopted by Anthropic
  • Broad framework/IdP support and flexible deployment (cloud to air-gapped)

Cons

  • Reliability depends on coverage and quality of its prebuilt tool catalog
  • Competitive space with identity incumbents and other agent-infra startups

Pricing

Free Trial Available

Free

$0

  • Get started with the MCP runtime
  • Access to agent-optimized tools

Enterprise

Contact for pricing

  • Usage-based at enterprise scale
  • On-prem/air-gapped/hybrid deployment
  • SOC 2, SSO, RBAC, full audit logs

Free tier available; usage-based pricing designed for enterprise scale.

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