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Arcade.dev vs Cortex

Arcade.devCortex

Bottom line: Arcade.dev for enterprise agent teams; Cortex for aPI teams with maintained specifications.

Arcade.devArcade.dev

MCP runtime for production agents with OAuth-based tool authorization at scale

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CortexCortex

Turn API specifications into docs, typed SDKs, and an MCP server

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PricingFreemiumFree
CategoryMcpMcp
Tags
mcpagent-toolsoauthtool-authorizationgovernance
mcp serverapi documentationsdk generationopenapiopen source
Best for
  • Enterprise agent teams
  • Security-conscious organizations
  • Agent framework developers
  • API teams with maintained specifications
  • Teams exposing APIs to agents via MCP
  • Open-source projects needing docs and SDKs
Pros
  • Solves secure per-user tool authorization
  • OAuth and on-behalf-of execution model
  • Thousands of pre-built authenticated integrations
  • Works with major agent frameworks via MCP
  • Complete audit trail of agent actions
  • MIT licensed with a public repository
  • Generates docs, SDKs, and an MCP server from one spec
  • Supports OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, gRPC, and OpenRPC
  • Eleven SDK output languages
  • Fully self-hostable, deployable anywhere Node runs
Cons
  • Developer/security infrastructure, not plug-and-play
  • Most value in enterprise/self-hosted tiers
  • Requires understanding of OAuth and MCP
  • Overhead for simple single-tool agents
  • Newer platform still maturing
  • Output quality depends entirely on spec quality
  • No hosted service or commercial support
  • Requires a build step in your pipeline
  • No team collaboration features
  • Young project with a small ecosystem

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