Agentic Index
Arcade vs Paragon (2026)
Both solve the problem of letting an agent act inside somebody else's software, and they solve different amounts of it.
Arcade is the focused authentication layer: OAuth and token management across more than seven thousand integrations, with an MCP runtime, from 25 dollars a month with a free tier. Paragon is the wider platform, a thousand plus prebuilt actions across a hundred and thirty plus apps behind one API or MCP server, plus triggers, RAG sync and workflows, and it documents 11.5 of 14 against Arcade's 8. Arcade if authenticated tool calling is the gap; Paragon if you also need the data flowing back.
Choose Arcade if
- Auth is the actual problem: you have tools and agents, and token handling is what keeps breaking.
- Integration count is what matters and seven thousand beats a curated hundred and thirty.
- Self serve pricing from 25 dollars a month with a free tier fits how you want to start.
Choose Paragon if
- You need more than calling out: triggers, RAG sync and workflow orchestration are part of the requirement.
- Knowledge grounding matters and Arcade documents none of it.
- You are embedding integrations into a product you ship to customers, which is what Paragon is built for.
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