Arcade: MCP vendor profile

Arcade is an actions runtime that handles OAuth and user tokens and enforces policy on every agent tool call across 7,500+ tools; it acquired Smithery, the public MCP registry and hosting service, in August 2026, as documented by the vendor.

At a glance

What it does for this layer

Arcade.dev announced on 5 Aug 2026 that it acquired Smithery and that Smithery co-founder Anirudh Kamath joined Arcade (www.arcade.dev). Arcade calls itself "the actions runtime between your agents and every system they reach", one control point to enforce, execute and govern actions (www.arcade.dev). Arcade publishes a remote MCP server at https://api.arcade.dev/mcp/arcade for clients that support remote HTTP MCP and browser sign-in; that route includes tools only, without skills or commands (www.arcade.dev).

Arcade installs as a plugin in Claude Code, Codex and Copilot CLI from the ArcadeAI/arcade-plugin marketplace repository (www.arcade.dev). Arcade's Free plan has no platform fee and 2,000 tool calls a month; Team is 25 USD a month plus 0.01 USD per tool call (www.arcade.dev). Arcade Enterprise offers deployment on Arcade Cloud, in the customer's VPC or fully air-gapped (www.arcade.dev).

Arcade's docs cover server-level versus tool-level authorization and an Arcade MCP framework for building MCP servers (docs.arcade.dev). Arcade's announcement describes Smithery as "a leading public registry and hosting platform for MCP" (www.arcade.dev, vendor's own claim). Arcade's docs say it handles OAuth, manages user tokens, enforces security policies and executes across "7,500+ agent-optimized tools" (docs.arcade.dev, vendor's own claim).

Products and plans

Checks on its own domain

What it does not do

• Arcade does not publish a separate price for Smithery on the pages read.

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