# Alternatives to Arcade

> Source: https://theagentsindex.com/arcade-dev/alternatives/ (re-verified)
> Updated: 30 October 2026

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than Arcade at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Arcade](https://theagentsindex.com/arcade-dev.md) | Enterprise teams putting agents into production that must pass a security review | Free, then $25 a month | — | 28 October 2026 |
| [Composio](https://theagentsindex.com/composio.md) | Developers adding app integrations and auth to agents they already build | Free, then $29 a month | Opt out of training | 28 October 2026 |
| [Nango](https://theagentsindex.com/nango.md) | Engineering teams shipping many customer-facing API integrations and agent tool calls | Free, then $50 a month | Open source | 28 October 2026 |

The ones people open most here come first, then the closest matches.

## Shortlist

### 1. Aident Loadout

Managed capability layer that connects any AI agent to 1,000+ apps through one reusable, audited setup.

**Where it improves on Arcade:**

**Trade-offs against Arcade:**
- [Agent permissions: partial — A loadout is described as carrying policies and audit rules and agents never receive raw secrets, but no per-action allow/deny policy editor or approval gate is documented in the Loadout docs.](https://docs.aident.ai/documentation/loadouts.md)
- [Self-hosted: partial — On-premises deployment is offered only through a sales conversation on the custom tier; no self-hosted option exists on any published self-serve plan.](https://aident.ai/pricing)
- [Admin controls: partial — Admins alone control stored credentials in Vault, which constrains which integrations can act, but no documented policy screen limits which actions an agent may call.](https://docs.aident.ai/loadout/vault-and-audit.md)

[View Aident Loadout](https://theagentsindex.com/aident-loadout)

### 2. Composio

Managed OAuth, tool discovery and execution across 1,500+ apps for agents you already run.

**Where it improves on Arcade:**
- [Opt out of training: yes — Nothing to opt out of: the vendor states payloads are never used to train models on any plan, and only de-identified execution metadata may be reused.](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/security/data-retention)

**Trade-offs against Arcade:**
- [Agent permissions: partial — By default an agent runs any session tool immediately; approval gating by tool or tag exists but the vendor labels it experimental with sandbox, proxy and provider limitations.](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/approvals)
- [Self-hosted: partial — Composio Cloud is the default; private VPC and self-hosted installs with Helm support exist only as an Enterprise arrangement agreed with the team.](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/security/token-custody)
- [Audit log: partial — Tool execution and trigger events are logged with metadata and retained a year, but the vendor states the logs endpoint gives no organisation-level administrative audit feed.](https://docs.composio.dev/docs/poc-to-prod/stream-logs-to-a-siem)

[View Composio](https://theagentsindex.com/composio)

### 3. Nango

Handles OAuth for 1,000+ APIs and runs your TypeScript integration functions, exposed to agents over MCP.

**Where it improves on Arcade:**
- [Open source: yes — The platform's source is public on GitHub and the vendor calls it open source, but the licence is the Elastic License rather than an OSI-approved one, and the freely self-hostable build is deliberately feature-limited against Cloud.](https://github.com/NangoHQ/nango)

**Trade-offs against Arcade:**
- [SDK languages: partial — TypeScript is the only shipped SDK: integration logic is written as TypeScript functions and the backend SDK is published as @nangohq/node. The Python, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust and PHP reference pages each say coming soon and point you at the REST API instead.](https://nango.dev/docs/reference/backend/backend-sdk/python)
- [Data residency: partial — Cloud data sits in a managed PostgreSQL database in AWS and there is no EU cloud today; residency elsewhere means BYOC, which puts the instance in your own AWS, GCP or Azure region but only on the Enterprise plan.](https://nango.dev/pricing)

[View Nango](https://theagentsindex.com/nango)