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arcade-dev

Arcade.dev (formerly Arcade AI) is the MCP runtime for production AI agents — a platform that lets agents safely take real-world actions across SaaS apps with per-user authorization, governed tool execution, and audit logging. The Arcade Engine exposes a Tools API for listing / authorizing / executing agent tools, an Authorization API that brokers OAuth and API-key grants across 40+ providers, an OpenAI-compatible LLM endpoint, Workers and MCP Gateways for routing, Hooks for governance, and an Admin API for control-plane configuration. Arcade ships with 7,000+ pre-built integrations across Google, Microsoft, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, HubSpot, and more, plus an MCP server framework (arcade-mcp) and SDKs in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java/Kotlin, and .NET. Available as Arcade Cloud, VPC, on-prem, or air-gapped.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles arcade-dev the way a machine reads it — 71 machine-readable artifacts across 8 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — arcade-dev scores 58.5/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9
Composite quality — 58.5/100 · strong
Contract Quality 19.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.3 / 12
Discoverability 5.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract derived 2.5 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8.0 / 8
Request/Response Examples documented 1.8 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling documented 3.5 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
arcade-dev Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile arcade-dev

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for arcade-dev. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 8

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

arcade-dev Admin API

The Admin API from arcade-dev — 14 operation(s) for admin.

arcade-dev Authorization API

The Authorization API from arcade-dev — 4 operation(s) for authorization.

arcade-dev Gateways API

The Gateways API from arcade-dev — 3 operation(s) for gateways.

arcade-dev Hooks API

The Hooks API from arcade-dev — 3 operation(s) for hooks.

arcade-dev LLM API

The LLM API from arcade-dev — 1 operation(s) for llm.

arcade-dev Operations API

The Operations API from arcade-dev — 3 operation(s) for operations.

arcade-dev Plugins API

The Plugins API from arcade-dev — 2 operation(s) for plugins.

arcade-dev Tools API

The Tools API from arcade-dev — 9 operation(s) for tools.

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Postman Collections 8

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Arcade Admin API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Authorization API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Gateways API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Hooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade LLM API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Operations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Plugins API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Tools API

OPEN COLLECTION

Arcade Workers API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Arcade Dev Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 18

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

MCP runtime engine for secure, multi-user AI agent tool calling
7,000+ pre-built tool integrations across SaaS apps
Agent-optimized toolkits for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, HubSpot, GitHub, Jira, Asana, LinkedIn, Stripe, MongoDB, Postgres, and more
User-scoped authorization (not service accounts) — agents act as the end-user with OAuth and API-key tokens managed by Arcade
40+ auth providers including Google, Microsoft, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, HubSpot
OpenAI-compatible chat completions endpoint with attached tools
Self-hosted workers for executing tools inside the customer perimeter
MCP gateways scoped per organization and project for MCP-client routing
Audit logs and tool-execution hooks for SIEM and governance pipelines
Tool authorization, tool execution, scheduled tools, formatted tools, and tool requirement inspection APIs
Python (arcadepy), TypeScript (arcadejs), Go, Java/Kotlin, and .NET SDKs
arcade-mcp MCP Server Framework and Tool Development library for custom toolkits
Integrations with AG2, CrewAI, Google ADK, LangChain (Python / TypeScript), Mastra, OpenAI Agents, Spring AI, TanStack AI, and Vercel AI SDK
Supported MCP clients: Cursor, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, VS Code, Microsoft Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot
Cloud, VPC, on-premises, and air-gapped deployment options
Usage-based pricing — Hobby free, Growth $25/mo plus overage, Enterprise custom
Arcade Registry (Beta) for publishing, sharing, and monetizing agentic tools
SSO/SAML, RBAC, and tenant isolation on Enterprise

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Arcade Dev Context

34 classes · 10 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

arcade-dev API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

arcade-dev API Rules

7 rules · 3 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Arcade Authorization

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Arcade Hook

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Arcade Tool Execution

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Arcade Tool

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Arcade Worker

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 3

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Arcade Authorization Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcade Tool Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Arcade Worker Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 11

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Arcade Dev Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Arcade Dev Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Arcade Dev Agentic Access

56 operations · 30 acting

56 operations · 30 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for arcade-dev — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of arcade-dev, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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