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Arcade.dev vs Speakeasy

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Bottom line: Arcade.dev for enterprise agent teams; Speakeasy for aPI-first companies.

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

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Generate production MCP servers and SDKs from your API, plus an MCP gateway

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryMcpMcp
Tags
mcpagent-toolsoauthtool-authorizationgovernance
mcpmcp-server-generationopenapisdk-generationai-gateway
Best for
  • Enterprise agent teams
  • Security-conscious organizations
  • Agent framework developers
  • API-first companies
  • Platform teams making APIs agent-ready
  • Enterprises needing MCP governance
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
  • Generates production MCP servers from OpenAPI
  • You fully own and can self-host the generated code
  • Supports both MCP transports plus streaming
  • Open-source Gram platform for MCP servers
  • MCP Gateway adds SSO, policy, and observability
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
  • Best results require a clean, well-structured OpenAPI spec
  • MCP is a fast-moving standard, so patterns keep evolving
  • Gateway and enterprise governance suit larger orgs
  • Pricing for advanced tiers is not fully public
  • Overkill for teams without an existing API to expose

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