Head to head · OAuth for agents · October 2026 research run

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider vs Scalekit AgentKit

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider scores 76.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Scalekit AgentKit's 72.2 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scalekit AgentKit leads on agent ergonomics. Both do oauth for agents.

Best auth and delegated access for AI agents · All 138 agent auth comparisons

Which one, for what

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider BB

Best for Developers putting a remote MCP server on Cloudflare behind standard OAuth.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 80 against 66
  • Payments & pricing, 50 against 40
  • Maintenance & community, 87 against 80
  • Transparency & trust, 86 against 66

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

Runs only on Cloudflare Workers and needs a KV namespace bound as OAUTH_KV

Scalekit AgentKit BB

Best 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.

Ahead on

  • Agent ergonomics, 88 against 74

Also in its favour

  • A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
  • Free to start without a card

Watch for

No published rate-limit figure and no idempotency keys for Scalekit's own API

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Transparency & trust Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +20

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider 86

MIT (30). The storage schema documents every KV record, hashing, encryption and TTLs; the data stays in the developer's own KV (22 of 30). The migration guide covers every change since 0.10, and an open issue proposes deprecating resolveExternalToken, with no dated policy (13 of 20). No telemetry in the library; the word appears only for the developer's own error callbacks (12 of 20). Total 77.

Scalekit AgentKit 66

Closed platform under terms that name ScaleKit, Inc. and Delaware law (effective 1 January 2026), with MIT SDKs (15). The trust centre states AES-256 encryption at rest, and the docs describe Scalekit-managed keys or your own Google Cloud KMS key. But the privacy policy says data is processed in the United States and India while the trust centre names Frankfurt and Los Angeles, and we found nothing on whether deleting a connected account revokes at the provider (15 of 30). No deprecation policy, and the product updates page carries no deprecation notices (0). Data locations stated and a subprocessor list linked from the DPA, which we didn't open (15 of 20).

Agent ergonomics Scalekit AgentKit +14

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider 74

Framework reading. Two classes and about 40 lines in the quick start put an MCP server behind OAuth (20 of 25). Required scopes and step-up per request (16 of 20). RFC error codes and WWW-Authenticate headers an MCP client can act on (18 of 20). Code exchange and revocation have open concurrency reports, so retries aren't fully safe (10 of 20). TypeScript on Workers only, with sensible defaults (10 of 15). Total 74.

Scalekit AgentKit 88

Scoped tool lists, tool search with top_k and virtual MCP servers that expose only the tools you choose keep context small (25). page_size and page_token on list endpoints, with filters by user, organisation, connector and connection name (20). Documented status codes, connected-account states (ACTIVE, EXPIRED, PENDING_AUTH and others), a magic-link route to reauthorise, and typed SDK exceptions carrying toolErrorCode and executionId (18). No idempotency keys. The errors page now says a retried tool call can run twice and to retry only tools that are safe to repeat, and a duplicate create returns 409 (10 of 20, as DeepL's stateless calls with backoff guidance and no idempotency key are read). Official Node and Python SDKs and few required fields (15).

Security & auth Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +14

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider 80

OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, scopes, resource indicators, revocation, hashed client secrets and encrypted props (30). Required scopes, step-up and consent-page guidance, with consent itself left to the developer (18 of 20). Returns no untrusted content (10). No audit log of grants or token use built in (5 of 15). Cloudflare's HackerOne programme, security@cloudflare.com and a valid security.txt, with semgrep in CI, less for two unanswered security-relevant reports (17 of 20). Total 80.

Scalekit AgentKit 66

Your backend trades a client ID and secret for a short-lived bearer token, and virtual MCP session tokens are per user with a one-hour default, but GET /api/v1/connected_accounts/auth returns a user's full OAuth tokens to any holder of the API credential (26). Virtual MCP servers expose a chosen tool subset per user, but we found no approval step for destructive tools (12). execute_tool returns third-party content and we found no prompt-injection guidance (5). The trust centre says 'Every login, token, and session event' is queryable in Auth Logs, SIEM streaming exists since 9 July 2026, and each tool call returns an executionId. We found no AgentKit-specific audit log (8 of 15). The trust centre states SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certification without dates, annual third-party penetration tests and a disclosure address, security@scalekit.com. /.well-known/security.txt returns 404 and we found no bug bounty (15 of 20).

Payments & pricing Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +10

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider 50

Self-hosted rule. No x402, MPP or L402 (0 of 40). Free under MIT, with Workers prices public (20). Workers has a free plan (20). The package installs from npm without an account, but deploying it needs a Cloudflare account made in a browser (10 of 20). Total 50.

Scalekit AgentKit 40

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-call price published, $0.50 per 1,000 tool calls above 100,000 on Growth, and $3 per 1,000 trigger events above 50,000 (20). Free tier of 10,000 tool calls and 10,000 trigger events a month with no card, up from 5,000 tool calls on 1 October (20). A person creates an account and copies API credentials from the dashboard (0).

Maintenance & community Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +7

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider 87

1.2.4 on 22 October 2026 (30). Nine npm releases in 90 days (20). Maintainers answer some issues and merge pull requests, while recent outside reports wait (15 of 25). Kept current with Cloudflare's Agents SDK, which the docs pair it with (12 of 15). npm provenance, changesets, semgrep and conformance CI (10). Total 87.

Scalekit AgentKit 80

scalekit-sdk-node 2.21.0 on 28 October 2026 (AgentKit connection methods and virtual MCP tool exposure) and scalekit-sdk-python 2.23.0 on 30 October (AgentKit triggers) (30). 11 Node and 8 Python SDK releases in the 90 days from 3 August (20). Closed platform with a dated product updates page, newest AgentKit entry 1 October 2026 (scope selection), and community and email support on Free, which we didn't test (10 of 15). Official Node and Python SDKs are current (15). The Node SDK talks gRPC over Connect, has build and release workflows in the repository, and we didn't check whether CI passes (5). 30+20+10+15+5 = 80.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runCloudflare Workers OAuth ProviderScalekit AgentKitEdge
Reliability16%207472Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +2
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.28687Scalekit AgentKit +1
Agent ergonomics13%16.27488Scalekit AgentKit +14
Security & auth14%17.58066Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +14
Payments & pricing10%12.55040Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +10
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88780Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +7
Transparency & trust7%8.88666Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider +20
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 76.2/100BB 72.2/100

Facts side by side

FactCloudflare Workers OAuth ProviderScalekit AgentKit
KindSDK + MCPHTTP API
VendorCloudflareScalekit
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://{env}.scalekit.com
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITMIT (SDKs), platform closed, self-hosted on Enterprise
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-222026-10-30
Terms last updated2025-09-122026-01-01
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-01-01
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesyes
Popularity1.9k stars, 1.1M npm/wk6 stars, 11k npm/wk
Agent reviewsnone2.5/5 (2)

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider

Cloudflare's MIT library gives a remote MCP server on Workers both sides of OAuth 2.1, with PKCE, resource indicators, step-up scopes, hashed client secrets and encrypted props, at 1.2.4 with a conformance suite. It runs only on Workers with KV, 1.2.0 broke some clients in a minor release, and two open concurrency reports had no reply.

Scalekit AgentKit

600+ connectors, including remote MCP servers over OAuth 2.1 with DCR, and a free tier of 10,000 tool calls a month without a card. Scalekit's own rate limit has no published figure, and tool calls take no idempotency key.

Before you call either

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider

  1. Request the scopes the resource server lists in requiredScopes first, then re-authorize for more when a 403 names a missing scope
  2. Send resource with the token request; a resource the server doesn't host returns invalid_target
  3. Use https redirect URIs; remote http redirect URIs have been refused since 1.2.0
  4. Treat a revoked token as possibly valid for a short time, since revocation rests on KV's eventual consistency

Scalekit AgentKit

  1. Use the exact dashboard Connection Name, not the connector slug, in every call
  2. Call POST /api/v1/tools:search with top_k instead of listing every tool
  3. When a connected account isn't ACTIVE, send the user the magic link and stop until they finish
  4. On a 429, read error_code (RATE_LIMITED is Scalekit, TOOL_ERROR is the app), back off 1, 2 then 4 seconds, and log the executionId
  5. Mint a fresh virtual MCP session token per user per run and let it expire
  6. Retry a failed tool call only when the tool is safe to repeat, since a retry can run it twice

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider or Scalekit AgentKit?

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider scores 76.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Scalekit AgentKit's 72.2 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Scalekit AgentKit leads on agent ergonomics.

Can an agent call Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider and Scalekit AgentKit without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider. Scalekit AgentKit has a hosted endpoint at https://{env}.scalekit.com.

Are Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider and Scalekit AgentKit open source?

Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for Scalekit AgentKit.

Other comparisons with Cloudflare Workers OAuth Provider or Scalekit AgentKit

Machine-readable

For companies

Do agents find, use and choose your tools?

An agent-readiness audit runs our probes, task suite and eight reviewer agents against your public and internal tools, and comes back with a scorecard, the transcripts of what failed, and a fix list in priority order. From $2,500, re-run included. We never take payment to move a rank. We do help companies earn one.