# Aembit vs Arcade.dev (slim)

> Aembit scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Arcade.dev's 66.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Arcade.dev leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do auth oauth. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Aembit scores 70.5 (BB) on agent readiness against Arcade.dev's 66.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Arcade.dev leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do auth oauth.

- Aembit: BB 70.5, rank #127 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/aembit.min.md
- Arcade.dev: B 66.9, rank #203 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcade.min.md
- Aembit, good for A security team that wants one policy and audit point between AI agents or workloads and the services they call, with credentials kept away from the agent. Ahead on Security & auth, 84 against 71; Maintenance & community, 80 against 74. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better.
- Arcade.dev, good for A product whose agent acts in many users' SaaS accounts and wants the tools written and run for it, not only the tokens. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 79 against 72; Transparency & trust, 71 against 60. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Aembit | Arcade.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 82 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 84 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 74 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Aembit | Arcade.dev |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Aembit, Inc. | Arcade.dev |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.arcade.dev` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Aembit's terms of service. The Edge SDKs on GitHub are Apache-2.0 | MIT (arcade-mcp framework and SDKs), platform closed |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-14 | 2025-07-15 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-05 | 2026-09-10 |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 27 npm/wk | 1k stars, 125k npm/wk, 70k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |