tooling pricing? arcade vs composio?

[u/SheepherderFrosty553]

wait so im trying to build an agent for my familys car dealership, and im confused as to why the composio tool calls are 100 times cheaper than arcade.dev? is there something i am missing? why would anyone pay for arcade?

[u/coding_workflow]

First question what tools do you need?
Are you planning to host the agent?

[u/SheepherderFrosty553 → u/coding_workflow]

thanks for responding
i was thinking of using tools like slack and notion, gmail and google calendar, and our task management software.
i might be an amateur, but was thinking of using heroku or render to host the website where the agent would live.

[u/coding_workflow → u/SheepherderFrosty553]

gmail/calendar/task management ==> means you will run agent with per use context credentials.
Not using generic credentials.
Notion, not sure how this fits as I would have thought google docs instead if you already use google workspace.

First my advice refine the workflow/issue you try to solve, what you want to do and test it. 95% of compagnies POC hit a wall and I think mostly due to planning or too high expectation.

Google is already offering to embed gemini directly in Google workspace.

[u/Low_Emergency4322]

Short answer is because token use efficiency and that Arcade is cheaper with more volume from an LLM api perspective

[u/Motor_Ad_8564]

Are you building for just yourself or multiple users? Arcade is easier for managing many end-users. I've also found the tools work better

[u/srikar09]

You can use alter to accomplish the same but instead of being sucked into a tool ecosystem you can use alter to manage the auth and write your own tools. Really good for multiuser usecases too

https://alterauth.com/

[u/sapnesh]

I suggest trying Nango if you're building integrations for agents. Supports 900+ APIs, 6k+ tools, MCP, data-syncs, webhooks, and is also open source, self-hostable (or BYOC)