# Alternatives to Composio

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

## At a glance

| Name | Best for | Starts at | Better than Composio at | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Composio](https://theagentsindex.com/composio.md) | Developers adding app integrations and auth to agents they already build | Free, then $29 a month | — | 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 | Agent permissions, Self-hosted | 28 October 2026 |
| [Arcade](https://theagentsindex.com/arcade-dev.md) | Enterprise teams putting agents into production that must pass a security review | Free, then $25 a month | Agent permissions, Self-hosted | 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 Composio:**

**Trade-offs against Composio:**
- [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. Nango

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

**Where it improves on Composio:**
- [Agent permissions: yes — Sessions are immutable and least-privilege by construction: toolsets can be narrowed to named tools per integration, the raw proxy meta tool is off unless you turn it on, and sessions expire (minimum 60s, default and maximum 15 days) or can be killed early.](https://nango.dev/docs/guides/agent-sessions)
- [Self-hosted: yes — Three ways off the vendor's cloud: a free Docker Compose build limited to Auth and Proxy, BYOC where Nango operates the instance in your AWS, GCP or Azure account, and Self-Managed via a Helm chart on your own Kubernetes — the latter two Enterprise-only.](https://nango.dev/docs/guides/platform/self-hosting/self-hosting)
- [Audit log: yes — Control-plane changes are recorded account-wide with the actor, the outcome and the originating IP, entries are immutable, and you can export them as CSV; retention is one year by default and the free self-hosted build has no audit trail.](https://nango.dev/docs/guides/platform/security)

**Trade-offs against Composio:**
- [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)

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

### 3. Arcade

Runtime that brokers OAuth, executes MCP tools and audits every agent action against the user's own permissions.

**Where it improves on Composio:**
- [Agent permissions: yes — Every call is evaluated at the moment of action against the intersection of the user's own permissions and the agent's scope, rather than a standing service account, and crossing either boundary stops the action.](https://www.arcade.dev/product/)
- [Self-hosted: yes — The runtime can be deployed in the buyer's own cloud, a VPC, on-premises or fully air-gapped, and the docs publish a Helm chart for running the platform on your own Kubernetes cluster.](https://www.arcade.dev/)
- [Audit log: yes — Each tool call records the agent, the user it acted for, the scope and the policy decision, and logs can be streamed to a customer's own SIEM over OpenTelemetry; the vendor says this is out of the box.](https://www.arcade.dev/product/)

**Trade-offs against Composio:**
- [Opt out of training: partial — Content pulled from connected third-party accounts is never used for model training, but the same policy says other collected information may be used to train the vendor's models with no opt-out described.](https://www.arcade.dev/privacy-policy/)

[View Arcade](https://theagentsindex.com/arcade-dev)