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Arcade vs WorkOS

Arcade and WorkOS score alike on the AgentReady. They differ on 3 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Arcade. The runtime between your agents and every system they need to reach.

WorkOS. WorkOS is a set of building blocks for quickly adding enterprise features to your app, providing a single, elegant interface that abstracts dozens of enterprise integrations.

Where Arcade is ahead

Arcade passes agent compatibility verified, and WorkOS does not. That is operate, whether an agent can run against it in production and recover when a call fails.

Where WorkOS is ahead

WorkOS passes no mandatory sales call, and Arcade does not. That is adopt, whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop.

It also holds operate: structured, predictable output. Arcade misses it.

What neither does

Both fail 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, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover. Both sit at 87/100 here. Arcade misses clear product positioning; WorkOS misses clear product positioning.

Understand. Both sit at 23/100 here. Arcade misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; WorkOS misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, pricing understandable, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt is whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop. WorkOS leads 85 to 76. Arcade misses no mandatory sales call, programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance; WorkOS misses programmatic credential creation, free trial or free allowance.

Operate. Arcade leads 56 to 50. Arcade misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable; WorkOS misses machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Arcade does not publish a machine-readable starting price. WorkOS does not publish one.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

WorkOS clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Arcade and WorkOS. Alternatives to each: Arcade, WorkOS.

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