Arcade.dev
Secure tool-calling and authorization layer that lets AI agents take real actions in apps like Gmail, Slack, and GitHub.
Overview
Arcade.dev is a commercial actions and authorization runtime for AI agents, handling the OAuth, API keys, and user tokens agents need to securely take real actions in services such as Gmail, Slack, GitHub, and Salesforce, with a full audit trail. Founded by former Okta and Snowflake engineers, it raised a $60M Series A in June 2026 (led by SYN Ventures), bringing total funding to about $72M. Arcade authored an MCP tool-authorization specification referenced by model providers including Anthropic and offers a large catalog of pre-built MCP tools.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 24 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 100 user challenges/mo
- 1,000 standard + 50 pro tool executions/mo
- 1 Arcade-hosted worker (5 self-hosted)
- All pre-built toolkits; community support
- 600 user challenges, 2,000 standard + 100 pro executions/mo
- Metered overages beyond quota
- Unlimited self-hosted workers
- Email support with SLA
- Dedicated tenant isolation
- Audit logs and compliance reporting
- RBAC, SSO/SAML
- Dedicated account representative
ASEAN Perspective
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What this is for: Giving AI agents secure, authorized access to take real actions in third-party apps, with governance and audit trails.
Who this is for: Teams putting agents into production that must safely call user-authorized tools like email, chat, and code hosts.
Availability: Commercial with a free developer tier; paid usage-based and enterprise plans.
What people say
Arcade.dev sits in the "agent authorization" niche and gets favorable notices from developer-focused reviewers for solving a real, unglamorous problem: handling OAuth, API keys, and user tokens so agents can take authenticated actions in Gmail, Slack, GitHub, and Salesforce without the model ever seeing the credentials, with an audit trail. Its founders' Okta/Snowflake security background, a large pre-built toolkit catalog, and its authorship of an MCP tool-authorization spec referenced by model providers give it credibility in the space.
The honest caveats are maturity and independence, not the concept. Founded only in 2024, it has a thin third-party review footprint — no G2/Gartner body of user reviews yet, mostly directory writeups and its own docs — so long-term reliability is largely unproven at scale. It's also a closed, commercial dependency you insert into your agents' trust path, and reviewers position it against alternatives like WorkOS for enterprise agent auth, meaning it's competing, not uncontested. Note the naming collision: "Arcade" is also an unrelated interactive-demo product, which muddies casual searches.
Arcade.dev offers a credibly-built answer to a common production pain and is backed by a large recent raise, but as a young company, its adoption and durability signals are still forming.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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