Agentic Index
Arcade vs Gentoro (2026)
Choose Arcade for authenticated tool calling across a large prebuilt integration catalog, and choose Gentoro to generate secure MCP tools from your own OpenAPI specs and govern them through their lifecycle. Arcade starts at 25 dollars a month with a free tier, while Gentoro offers a free playground with paid and enterprise plans via sales. Gentoro is the earlier stage vendor with sales gated pricing, so treat evaluation as a scoped pilot with success criteria.
| At a glance | Arcade | Gentoro |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | From $25/mo · free tier | Free playground · paid and enterprise contact sales |
| Free / trial | Free tier: 100 user challenges, 1,000 standard tool executions, 50 pro tool executions per month, unlimited tools | Free self serve playground and developer portal; get started free |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | contact only |
| Feature |
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Arcade
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Gentoro
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| 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. |
Partial | 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. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
| 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 | No / Not documented |
| 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. |
Partial | Partial |
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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. |
Full / Explicit | 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. |
Partial | Partial |
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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. |
Partial | Partial |
| 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 |
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Arcade
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Gentoro
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $25/mo · free tier | Free playground · paid and enterprise contact sales |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public — exact | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Platform fee plus usage (user challenges and tool executions) | Not publicly disclosed |
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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 | Sales call |
Choose Arcade if
- Delegated user auth across thousands of existing integrations is the requirement
- Published self serve pricing lets you adopt without a sales cycle
- You want a production MCP runtime with a track record
Choose Gentoro if
- Your tools are internal APIs and generating MCP servers from specs is the shortcut
- Lifecycle governance of generated tools matters to your platform team
- You accept a sales conversation for pricing in exchange for spec driven automation