Arcade.devFreemium
One control point for the actions agents take in real systems — user-scoped auth, 8,000+ permission-aware tools, and an audit trail per action.
AI Infrastructure comparison
Arcade.dev vs Composio
Pricing, pros, cons, and ideal use cases — side by side.
ComposioFreemium
Gives agents authenticated access to 1,000+ applications, handling OAuth, tool selection, and sandboxed execution so you do not build integrations one at a time.
At a glance
| Arcade.dev | Composio | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | FreemiumFree $0/month with 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls, community support, no credit card. Team $25/month plus usage at $0.10 per auth event and $0.01 per tool call, with next-business-day email support. Enterprise is custom with annual bundles, cloud, VPC or air-gapped deployment, SSO, RBAC, audit logs, private registry access, and 24/7 SLA. Priced by what agents do, not per seat. | FreemiumFree tier to get started; paid and enterprise plans are not published on the site and require a demo. |
| Category | AI Infrastructure | AI Infrastructure |
| Ideal for | Platform teams putting agents into production against real SaaS systemsSecurity teams that have blocked an agent project over service-account accessCompanies building internal agents on Salesforce, Google Workspace, or SlackTeams standing up MCP servers who need auth and audit around them | Engineering teams building production agentsDevelopers who need agents to act across many SaaS toolsTeams using MCP clients like Claude Code or CursorAnyone facing an OAuth-per-integration backlog |
Pros & cons
Arcade.dev
Pros
- Agents act as a specific user, not a god-mode service account
- Published usage pricing in a category that is usually demo-gated
- 8,000+ pre-built permission-aware tools plus custom MCP support
- Per-action audit trail — the artifact security actually asks for
- SOC 2 certified, with VPC and air-gapped deployment options
Cons
- Another layer between your agent and its tools — added latency and a new dependency
- Usage pricing on auth events can surprise you at high user counts
- Only worth it once agents take write actions, not just read
- Requires engineering integration; not a business-user product
- Tool coverage is broad but you should verify your specific systems
Composio
Pros
- Eliminates per-integration OAuth work across 1,000+ apps
- Just-in-time tool selection avoids context-window tool bloat
- Sandboxed execution environments for multi-step workflows
- Works with MCP clients including Claude Code and Cursor
- Real free tier for evaluation
Cons
- Paid pricing is not published
- Routing agent credentials through a third party needs a security review
- Another dependency in the critical path of every agent action
- Tool coverage depth varies by application
Which should you choose?
Arcade.dev is built around platform teams putting agents into production against real saas systems; Composio leans more toward engineering teams building production agents. Shortlist the one whose strengths line up with your biggest constraint.
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