# Arcade.dev vs Vercel Connect (slim)

> Vercel Connect scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Arcade.dev's 66.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do auth oauth. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcade-vs-vercel-connect.md (~2,350 tokens) · this version ~630 tokens · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcade-vs-vercel-connect.json · canonical https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arcade-vs-vercel-connect
- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-09

Vercel Connect scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Arcade.dev's 66.9 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do auth oauth.

- Arcade.dev: B 66.9, rank #248 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/arcade.min.md
- Vercel Connect: B 68.8, rank #195 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vercel-connect.min.md
- 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. Also Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.
- Vercel Connect, good for Teams already deploying on Vercel whose agents need user or app tokens for Slack, GitHub, Microsoft, Linear, Snowflake or an MCP server without storing provider secrets. Ahead on Security & auth, 83 against 71; Maintenance & community, 81 against 74; Transparency & trust, 77 against 71.

| Category | Arcade.dev | Vercel Connect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 63 | 63 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 79 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 74 | 81 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Arcade.dev | Vercel Connect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Arcade.dev | Vercel Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.arcade.dev` | `https://api.vercel.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT (arcade-mcp framework and SDKs), platform closed | Proprietary service under Vercel's Terms of Service and the Vercel Connect product terms. The `@vercel/connect` SDK and the Vercel CLI are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-09-25 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-15 | 2026-06-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2026-06-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Popularity | 1k stars, 125k npm/wk, 70k PyPI/wk | 16k stars, 738k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | none |