Agentic Index
Arcade vs Composio (2026)
Choose Arcade when authenticated tool calling is the hard problem, since its OAuth and token management let agents act as real users across thousands of integrations, and choose Composio for the broadest managed integration catalog with usage based pricing. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Arcade starts at 25 dollars a month with a free tier, while Composio starts free at 100,000 tool calls a month, with Scale at 29 dollars a month including a 29 dollar usage credit and metered rates beyond it. Auth depth versus catalog economics is the honest axis between these two.
On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, Arcade clears the bar and Composio does not. Arcade documents all five production contract capabilities in full; Composio does not document testing, debugging and optimization in full. 34 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Arcade and Composio are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 956 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Arcade if
- Agents must act on behalf of end users with delegated OAuth done correctly
- Token lifecycle management is the part you least want to build
- An MCP runtime with auth built in matches your architecture
Choose Composio if
- Tool call volume economics matter and bundled allowances fit your usage
- A very large managed catalog with SOC 2 Type II behind it satisfies review
- You want one integration layer across every agent framework you run
| At a glance | Arcade | Composio |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | Free tier · Team $25/mo + usage · Enterprise custom | Free (100K tool calls/mo) · Scale $29/mo + usage · Enterprise custom |
| Free / trial | Free plan: 2,000 auth events and 2,000 tool calls a month, no credit card | Free plan: 100,000 tool calls, 50,000 trigger events and 3 team members a month |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | public exact |
| Feature | A Arcade |
C Composio |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
No / Not documented | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
No / Not documented | Partial |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Partial | Partial |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Full / Explicit | No / Not documented |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | A Arcade |
C Composio |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free tier · Team $25/mo + usage · Enterprise custom | Free (100K tool calls/mo) · Scale $29/mo + usage · Enterprise custom |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Monthly platform fee plus usage: auth events and tool calls | Monthly platform fee plus usage: tool calls and delivered trigger events |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tier
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Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
Composio lists SOC 2 and ISO 27001:2022 in the security block on its homepage, while the FAQ on the same page names SOC 2 Type II only and its trust page renders client side, so neither attestation is readable on a first party page. Ask for both reports under NDA.
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