Arcade alternatives

The highest-scoring alternative to Arcade is Composio at 97/100 on the AgentReady, against 61/100 for Arcade.

All scored in Agent Auth & Permissions.

What Composio does that Arcade does not

Composio passes clear product positioning, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, rate-limit behavior predictable, and Arcade fails them. That is the whole of the gap between the two scores, so if none of those matter to your agent the ranking above overstates the difference.

Why people look for an alternative

Arcade fails clear product positioning, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. Each one is a place an unattended run stops, which is usually what sends someone looking in the first place.

What this category actually supports

Across the 7 products scored in Agent Auth & Permissions, delegate scoped access is offered by 14%. Anything under half is a gap you should expect to fill yourself whichever one you pick.

An agent can get this list directly: resolve("alternative to Arcade") over the MCP server, or GET /v1/categories/agent-auth.