Agentic Index
Arcade vs Klavis AI (2026)
Two takes on authenticated tool access for agents, one commercial and one open at the core. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Arcade is the managed option: OAuth and token handling across more than seven thousand integrations with an MCP runtime, from 25 dollars a month with a free tier, documenting 8 of 14. Klavis is MCP native with hosted servers across six hundred plus tools and the open source Strata server underneath, free to start, documenting 6. Arcade for reach and a managed path; Klavis when running the servers yourself is the requirement rather than a preference.
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Arcade and Klavis AI 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 969 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Arcade if
- Integration reach decides it: seven thousand against six hundred is not a close call.
- You want prebuilt tooling and a managed runtime rather than infrastructure to operate.
- Documented coverage is broader, including observability and evaluation where Klavis is thin.
Choose Klavis AI if
- Open source is a requirement: Strata is code you can run, audit and modify.
- Self hosting the MCP servers is the point, not a fallback.
- You want to start free and scale usage without a per seat commitment.
| At a glance | Arcade | Klavis AI |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | From $25/mo · free tier | Open source Strata server free; hosted free tier; paid plans for higher usage; Enterprise |
| Free / trial | Free tier: 100 user challenges, 1,000 standard tool executions, 50 pro tool executions per month, unlimited tools | Open source Strata server free to self host, plus a free hosted tier |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | public partial |
| Feature | A Arcade |
K Klavis AI |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Partial |
| 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 | No / Not documented |
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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 | No / Not documented |
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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 | Partial |
| 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 | No / Not documented |
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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 | A Arcade |
K Klavis AI |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
From $25/mo · free tier | Open source Strata server free; hosted free tier; paid plans for higher usage; Enterprise |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, partial |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Platform fee plus usage (user challenges and tool executions) | usage (MCP tool calls and servers) |
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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 tierTrial
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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