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Each third-party provider needs an OAuth client the owner registers with that provider. AgentCore Runtime and Gateway fetch the workload access token for the agent.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$0.010 per 1,000 OAuth token or API key requests for non-AWS resources, billed per successful request, with no minimum fee. No additional charge when the service is used through AgentCore Runtime or AgentCore Gateway, which are billed on their own meters. No free tier specific to Identity was found. New AWS accounts get up to $200 of Free Tier credit for up to 6 months, and AWS says most new customers need no payment method at sign-up though it may ask for one (https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/agentcore/pricing/, https://aws.amazon.com/free/free-tier-faqs/).", "priceSummary": "$0.01 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 for paying AWS on the pricing page or in the docs. AgentCore payments is a separate capability for agents paying third-party sellers (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 334717, "pypiWeekly": 1421946, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/identity.html", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "auth.oauth", "auth.tokens", "auth.consent", "auth.agent-identity", "auth.audit", "infra.aws" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "usage-priced", "oauth", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "sla", "soc2", "eu" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 74.8, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 64, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 85, "schema": 88, "security": 84, "transparency": 75 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The service handles user-delegated, machine-to-machine and on-behalf-of token flows through one call, with IAM scoping, KMS encryption and published quotas. It only works inside an AWS account a person creates, the hosted consent portal needs an AgentCore Gateway, and no call to revoke one user's stored grant was found in the API reference.", "bestFor": "Agents already built on AWS, above all those on AgentCore Runtime or Gateway, where token retrieval is automatic and free of extra charge.", "strengths": [ "`GetResourceOauth2Token` covers three flows (USER_FEDERATION, M2M and ON_BEHALF_OF_TOKEN_EXCHANGE) and returns either an access token or an authorisation URL with a session URI.", "25 OAuth vendor values in `CreateOauth2CredentialProvider`, 24 built in (Google, GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, Microsoft, Atlassian and others) plus a custom OAuth 2.0 provider.", "Quotas are published per operation, 200 requests a second for the three workload access token calls and 20 for each management call, all adjustable.", "The token vault is encrypted with an AWS owned KMS key by default or a customer managed key, and IAM policies can name one workload identity and one credential provider.", "$0.010 per 1,000 token or API key requests, with no extra charge when used through AgentCore Runtime or Gateway." ], "weaknesses": [ "No operation to revoke or delete one user's stored grant was found. `forceAuthentication` clears a refresh token, and AWS says it cannot detect a revocation made at the provider.", "The consent portal, launched 1 September 2026, attaches to one AgentCore Gateway with JWT inbound auth and cannot use GitHub, Slack, Salesforce, Atlassian or LinkedIn as its sign-in provider.", "`GetWorkloadAccessTokenForUserId` takes a user ID string the platform does not verify, so the binding to a user rests on the caller and its IAM policy.", "AWS states the service enforces no binding between workload identities and credential providers in one account beyond the IAM policy the owner writes.", "No CloudTrail page for AgentCore Identity was found in the developer guide, though Gateway and Agent Registry each have one." ], "agentNotes": [ "Get a workload access token first (`GetWorkloadAccessTokenForJWT` in production), then pass it as `workloadIdentityToken` to `GetResourceOauth2Token` or `GetResourceApiKey`.", "When `GetResourceOauth2Token` returns `authorizationUrl` instead of `accessToken`, send the URL to the user and call again with the same `sessionUri` after consent.", "For user-delegated flows, host an HTTPS callback, register it with `UpdateWorkloadIdentity` as an allowed return URL, and call `CompleteResourceTokenAuth` after checking the user's session.", "Ask for refresh tokens in the provider's own way, such as `access_type=offline` in `customParameters` for Google or the `offline_access` scope for Microsoft and Atlassian.", "Treat a returned token as possibly revoked. On a 401 from the resource server, retry with `forceAuthentication` set to true." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 74.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 85, "schema": 88, "security": 84, "transparency": 61 }, "provenanceScore": 88 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install bedrock-agentcore" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/auth.oauth", "tool": "https://letme.dev/agentcore-identity" }, "sameCompany": [ "amazon-nova-embeddings", "amazon-bedrock-guardrails", "amazon-transcribe", "amazon-polly", "agentcore-memory", "aws-secrets-manager", "aws-mcp-servers", "amazon-ses", "amazon-location", "amazon-translate", "amazon-ads-api" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "OAuth token or API key requests for non-AWS resources", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Per successful request. No charge when used through AgentCore Runtime or Gateway" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Amazon Web Services, Inc.", "domain": "amazon.com", "domainRegistered": "1994-11-01", "domainNote": "The service pages are under aws.amazon.com and the endpoints are on amazonaws.com, an AWS domain.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/", "privacy": "https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/", "statusPage": "https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status", "changelog": "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/release-notes.html", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The AWS Service Terms show Last Updated 1 October 2026. Section 50 covers AI services and section 50.15 covers AgentCore Payments. No section names AgentCore Identity, so the universal terms and section 50 apply.", "The Privacy Notice shows Last Updated 18 May 2026 and gives Amazon Web Services, Inc., 410 Terry Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109-5210.", "security.txt shows Expires 2026-09-24T16:25:03Z, read on 8 October 2026. It points to the AWS vulnerability disclosure programme on HackerOne and the policy at vdp.aws.security.", "The status page is drawn by script. We read the per-service feed (status.aws.amazon.com/rss/bedrock-agentcore-us-east-1.rss, no items) and the dashboard's history file.", "The domain registration date is carried from our other AWS listings. WHOIS was not reachable from this session.", "The release notes are dated by month only, and the RSS feed they mention was not found at doc-history.rss (404)." ], "score": 88 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-identity.json", "live": { "slug": "agentcore-identity", "probe": { "target": "https://bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:20.684653607Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 255, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 255, "p95ms24h": 294, "samples24h": 44, "samples30d": 44, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 44, "ok": 44 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:20.684653607Z" } }, "answer": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Scalekit AgentKit's 71.9 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Scalekit AgentKit leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "scalekit-agentkit", "name": "Scalekit AgentKit", "vendor": "Scalekit", "vendorUrl": "https://www.scalekit.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-auth", "summary": "Authentication and integration platform for agents, with per-user account connections, scoped MCP servers and managed tool calls.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scalekit-agentkit", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scalekit-agentkit.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scalekit-agentkit.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scalekit-agentkit.json", "repo": "https://github.com/scalekit-inc/scalekit-sdk-node", "license": "MIT (SDKs), platform closed, self-hosted on Enterprise", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://{env}.scalekit.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scalekit-sdk/node" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scalekit-sdk-python" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scalekit-inc/cli" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Your backend gets a bearer token from `POST $SCALEKIT_ENVIRONMENT_URL/oauth/token` with `grant_type=client_credentials` and the client ID and secret from the dashboard, then calls the REST API under /api/v1 on the same environment URL (dev environments end in .scalekit.dev, production in .scalekit.com). End users authorise a connection through a time-limited magic link that Scalekit hosts. Virtual MCP servers take a short-lived session token minted per user, about one hour by default. The management MCP server at mcp.scalekit.com needs no extra credentials.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "AgentKit Free is $0 with 5,000 tool calls a month, unlimited connected accounts, 500+ connectors and community and email support, no card. Growth is $99 a month with 100,000 tool calls and $0.0005 per extra call, custom connectors, an API proxy and private Slack support, with an EU data residency add-on at $99 a month. Enterprise is custom, with negotiated call volume, a 99.99 per cent uptime SLA, VPC or on-prem deployment, a HIPAA BAA, SIEM integrations and a forward-deployed engineer (https://www.scalekit.com/pricing). The page doesn't say whether a plain token fetch counts as a tool call.", "priceSummary": "$99 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 6, "npmWeekly": 10642, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.scalekit.com/agentkit/overview", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.scalekit.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.scalekit.com/api/agentkit.scalar.json", "capabilities": [ "auth.oauth", "auth.tokens", "auth.consent", "auth.agent-identity", "agent.tools" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "oauth", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "typescript", "python", "enterprise", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.9, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 111, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 40, "reliability": 75, "schema": 87, "security": 66, "transparency": 65 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "500+ connectors, including remote MCP servers over OAuth 2.1 with DCR. No rate limits or idempotency documented for Scalekit's own API.", "bestFor": "A team that wants per-user third-party tokens plus a hosted tool catalogue at the lowest per-call price, with a tidy virtual MCP surface for agents.", "strengths": [ "500+ connectors, including remote MCP servers over OAuth 2.1 with DCR", "OpenAPI files, llms.txt and a Markdown twin for every docs page", "Tool search, scoped tool lists and virtual MCP servers keep an agent's context small", "Atlassian status page with an Agent Kit Tool Execution component, 100.0 per cent over 90 days", "Free tier of 5,000 tool calls a month with no card, then $0.0005 a call on Growth" ], "weaknesses": [ "No rate limits or idempotency documented for Scalekit's own API", "Any holder of the API credential can read a user's full OAuth tokens", "No approval step for destructive tools and no prompt-injection guidance", "The privacy policy says the United States and India, the trust centre says Frankfurt and Los Angeles", "No security.txt, no bug bounty and no deprecation notices" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the exact dashboard Connection Name, not the connector slug, in every call", "Call `POST /api/v1/tools:search` with top_k instead of listing every tool", "When a connected account isn't ACTIVE, send the user the magic link and stop until they finish", "On ScalekitToolRateLimitException, back off before retrying, and log the executionId", "Mint a fresh virtual MCP session token per user per run and let it expire" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 83, "maintenance": 80, "payments": 40, "reliability": 75, "schema": 87, "security": 66, "transparency": 45 }, "provenanceScore": 84 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @scalekit-sdk/node", "http": "TOKEN=$(curl -s -X POST \"$SCALEKIT_ENVIRONMENT_URL/oauth/token\" \\\n -d client_id=\"$SCALEKIT_CLIENT_ID\" -d client_secret=\"$SCALEKIT_CLIENT_SECRET\" \\\n -d grant_type=client_credentials | jq -r .access_token)\ncurl -X POST \"$SCALEKIT_ENVIRONMENT_URL/api/v1/connected_accounts/magic_link\" \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"connection_name\":\"gmail\",\"identifier\":\"user-123\"}'", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http --scope user scalekit https://mcp.scalekit.com", "config": { "mcpServers": { "scalekit": { "url": "https://mcp.scalekit.com" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/auth.oauth", "tool": "https://letme.dev/scalekit-agentkit" }, "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Growth plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "100,000 tool calls included" }, { "item": "Tool call above 100,000 on Growth", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.0005, "note": "$0.50 per 1,000" }, { "item": "EU data residency add-on", "unit": "month", "usd": 99, "note": "Growth plan" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "ScaleKit, Inc.", "domain": "scalekit.com", "domainRegistered": "2003-04-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.scalekit.com/legal/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.scalekit.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://scalekit.statuspage.io/", "changelog": "https://www.scalekit.com/product-updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-02", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy policy (both effective 1 January 2026) name ScaleKit, Inc., with addresses in Redmond, WA and Lewes, DE, under Delaware law.", "RDAP shows scalekit.com registered on 2003-04-24, long before the company, so the domain was bought later.", "/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 2026-09-30. The status page is scalekit.statuspage.io, linked from the site footer. status.scalekit.com serves the dashboard app.", "The trust page at https://www.scalekit.com/trust-center states SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certification and gives security@scalekit.com for reports." ], "score": 84 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scalekit-agentkit.json", "live": { "slug": "scalekit-agentkit", "probe": { "target": "https://{env}.scalekit.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:39.587662341Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 259, "samples30d": 2109, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 109, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 0 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 125, "ok": 0 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://scalekit.statuspage.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:38.255359946Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "scalekit-inc/scalekit-sdk-node", "version": "v2.19.0", "released": "2026-10-05", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:15.751330214Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scalekit-inc/cli", "version": "0.3.24", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:14.555228054Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@scalekit-sdk/node", "version": "2.19.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:13.554467274Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scalekit-sdk-python", "version": "2.20.0", "released": "2026-10-05", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:28:14.369980592Z" } ], "githubStars": 8, "npmWeekly": 10625, "pypiWeekly": 11019, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://scalekit.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:03.460113092Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.scalekit.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:51.867614484Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "scalekit.com", "registered": "2003-04-24", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/scalekit.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:01.703612585Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.scalekit.com/product-updates", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:19.237204061Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:13:49.191212913Z", "fingerprint": "25b12e9d06e1" }, { "url": "https://www.scalekit.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:17.829504148Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "cdf7adf96094" }, { "url": "https://www.scalekit.com/legal/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:13.17617751Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:13.17617751Z", "fingerprint": "1ac3ba0fe793" }, { "url": "https://www.scalekit.com/legal/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:30:15.301904392Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "c8437cad75b0" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:39.587662341Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Amazon Web Services", "b": "Scalekit", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com", "b": "https://{env}.scalekit.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "$0.01 per 1,000 requests", "b": "not published", "name": "Price for auth oauth" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. 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Scalekit AgentKit leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity or Scalekit AgentKit?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity and Scalekit AgentKit need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scalekit-agentkit-vs-vercel-connect" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scalekit-agentkit-vs-workos-pipes.json", "title": "Scalekit AgentKit vs WorkOS Pipes and Agents", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scalekit-agentkit-vs-workos-pipes" } ], "scores": [ { "agentcore-identity": 85, "by": 10, "edge": "agentcore-identity", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "scalekit-agentkit": 75, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agentcore-identity": 88, "by": 1, "edge": "agentcore-identity", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "scalekit-agentkit": 87, "weight": 13 }, { "agentcore-identity": 76, "by": 7, "edge": "scalekit-agentkit", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "scalekit-agentkit": 83, "weight": 13 }, { "agentcore-identity": 84, "by": 18, "edge": "agentcore-identity", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", 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No rate limits or idempotency documented for Scalekit's own API." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit.min.md" }, "markdown": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Scalekit AgentKit's 71.9 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Scalekit AgentKit leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community. Both do auth oauth.\n\n- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity: grade BB, 74.8/100, rank #64 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentcore-identity.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-identity.json\n- Scalekit AgentKit: grade BB, 71.9/100, rank #111 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scalekit-agentkit.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scalekit-agentkit.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents already built on AWS, above all those on AgentCore Runtime or Gateway, where token retrieval is automatic and free of extra charge.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 75\n- Security \u0026 auth, 84 against 66\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 75 against 65\n\nWatch for: No operation to revoke or delete one user's stored grant was found. `forceAuthentication` clears a refresh token, and AWS says it cannot detect a revocation made at the provider.\n\n### Scalekit AgentKit (BB)\n\nGood for: A team that wants per-user third-party tokens plus a hosted tool catalogue at the lowest per-call price, with a tidy virtual MCP surface for agents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 83 against 76\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 80 against 70\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No rate limits or idempotency documented for Scalekit's own API\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity | Scalekit AgentKit | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 85 | 75 | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 87 | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 83 | Scalekit AgentKit +7 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 84 | 66 | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +18 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Scalekit AgentKit +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 80 | Scalekit AgentKit +10 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 75 | 65 | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **74.8 · BB** | **71.9 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity | Scalekit AgentKit |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Amazon Web Services | Scalekit |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com` | `https://{env}.scalekit.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for auth oauth | $0.01 per 1,000 requests | not published |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the AWS Customer Agreement and AWS Service Terms. The AgentCore SDKs for Python and TypeScript are Apache-2.0 | MIT (SDKs), platform closed, self-hosted on Enterprise |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-01 | 2026-09-29 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-01 | 2026-01-01 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-18 | 2026-01-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | yes, with an opt-out | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | 335k npm/wk, 1.4M PyPI/wk | 6 stars, 11k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity.** The service handles user-delegated, machine-to-machine and on-behalf-of token flows through one call, with IAM scoping, KMS encryption and published quotas. It only works inside an AWS account a person creates, the hosted consent portal needs an AgentCore Gateway, and no call to revoke one user's stored grant was found in the API reference.\n\n**Scalekit AgentKit.** 500+ connectors, including remote MCP servers over OAuth 2.1 with DCR. No rate limits or idempotency documented for Scalekit's own API.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity\n\n1. Get a workload access token first (`GetWorkloadAccessTokenForJWT` in production), then pass it as `workloadIdentityToken` to `GetResourceOauth2Token` or `GetResourceApiKey`.\n2. When `GetResourceOauth2Token` returns `authorizationUrl` instead of `accessToken`, send the URL to the user and call again with the same `sessionUri` after consent.\n3. For user-delegated flows, host an HTTPS callback, register it with `UpdateWorkloadIdentity` as an allowed return URL, and call `CompleteResourceTokenAuth` after checking the user's session.\n4. Ask for refresh tokens in the provider's own way, such as `access_type=offline` in `customParameters` for Google or the `offline_access` scope for Microsoft and Atlassian.\n5. Treat a returned token as possibly revoked. On a 401 from the resource server, retry with `forceAuthentication` set to true.\n\n### Scalekit AgentKit\n\n1. Use the exact dashboard Connection Name, not the connector slug, in every call\n2. Call `POST /api/v1/tools:search` with top_k instead of listing every tool\n3. When a connected account isn't ACTIVE, send the user the magic link and stop until they finish\n4. On ScalekitToolRateLimitException, back off before retrying, and log the executionId\n5. Mint a fresh virtual MCP session token per user per run and let it expire\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity or Scalekit AgentKit?\n\nAmazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Scalekit AgentKit's 71.9 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Scalekit AgentKit leads on agent ergonomics, payments \u0026 pricing and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity and Scalekit AgentKit need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity and Scalekit AgentKit without installing anything?\n\nYes. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity has a hosted endpoint at https://bedrock-agentcore.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and Scalekit AgentKit at https://{env}.scalekit.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"agentcore-identity\", \"b\": \"scalekit-agentkit\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agentcore-identity scalekit-agentkit`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentcore-identity.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scalekit-agentkit.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity or Scalekit AgentKit\n\n- [Aembit vs Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aembit-vs-agentcore-identity.md)\n- [Aembit vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aembit-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Arcade.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-arcade.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Auth0 for AI Agents (Token Vault)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-auth0-ai-agents.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Descope Agentic Identity Hub](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-descope-agentic-identity.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Keycard](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-keycard.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Microsoft Entra Agent ID](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-microsoft-entra-agent-id.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Nango](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-nango.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Stytch Connected Apps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-stytch-connected-apps.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Vercel Connect](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-vercel-connect.md)\n- [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs WorkOS Pipes and Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentcore-identity-vs-workos-pipes.md)\n- [Arcade.dev vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcade-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Auth0 for AI Agents (Token Vault) vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auth0-ai-agents-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Descope Agentic Identity Hub vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/descope-agentic-identity-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Keycard vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/keycard-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Microsoft Entra Agent ID vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/microsoft-entra-agent-id-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Nango vs Scalekit AgentKit](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nango-vs-scalekit-agentkit.md)\n- [Scalekit AgentKit vs Stytch Connected Apps](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scalekit-agentkit-vs-stytch-connected-apps.md)\n- [Scalekit AgentKit vs Vercel Connect](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scalekit-agentkit-vs-vercel-connect.md)\n- [Scalekit AgentKit vs WorkOS Pipes and Agents](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scalekit-agentkit-vs-workos-pipes.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-09", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity vs Scalekit AgentKit", "url": "" } ], "description": "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity scores 74.8 (BB) on agent readiness against Scalekit AgentKit's 71.9 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. 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