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Arcade.dev vs Smithery

Arcade.devSmithery

Bottom line: Arcade.dev for enterprise agent teams; Smithery for developers discovering MCP servers.

Arcade.devArcade.dev

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

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SmitherySmithery

The Docker Hub of MCP: discover, install, and host thousands of MCP servers.

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryMcpMcp
Tags
mcpagent-toolsoauthtool-authorizationgovernance
mcpregistryserver-hostingclidiscovery
Best for
  • Enterprise agent teams
  • Security-conscious organizations
  • Agent framework developers
  • Developers discovering MCP servers
  • People who want hosted endpoints with no setup
  • Server authors distributing their work
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
  • One of the largest MCP registries
  • Hosted endpoints remove local setup and dependency management
  • CLI makes local installation quick
  • Managed OAuth for hosted servers
  • Toolbox meta-MCP helps agents pick servers
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
  • Quality of long-tail community servers is inconsistent
  • Hosted execution and higher usage cost extra
  • Hosted-only for managed runtime; no self-hosting of the platform
  • Registry space is crowded and still consolidating
  • Security/trust of third-party servers is on the user

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