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Why We Rebuilt Arcade's Pricing from the Ground Up

Today, we’re launching the second iteration of our pricing plan. We’re walking through the details so you can see how we’re making our authorization and tool management platform accessible to even more developers and their agents.  Our goal is to get your agents into production. This involves not just calling well-designed, LLM-consumable tools, but also authorizing many end users into your agent, which is not yet possible with MCP Servers. Our first pricing plan charged based on the number of

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Arcade.dev Achieves SOC 2 Type 2: Because Agent Security Isn't Optional

Here's a fact that keeps enterprise CTOs up at night: 70% of AI agent projects never reach production. The primary killer? Security reviews that reveal agents can't be trusted with enterprise systems. Today, Arcade.dev achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification. But unlike typical compliance announcements, this isn't about checking boxes. It's about solving the fundamental trust problem that blocks agent deployment (and we checked the boxes too). Why Agent Security Hits Different Traditional softwa

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TUTORIALS

The 3-Agent Pattern: How Chex Built a Full-Stack Mental Health Assistant

Most AI agents are glorified chatbots. Chex just won a hackathon by building three specialized agents that actually book therapy appointments. Not suggest. Not recommend. Actually book — complete with calendar invites and email confirmations. Here's the pattern they discovered that you can steal for your own agent systems. Want to skip to the code? Check out our Quickstart or get your Arcade.dev API key to build authenticated agents in minutes. The Problem: Single Agents Hit Walls Traditio

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Agentic Commerce is Here: We Just Taught AI to Complete Purchases

Remember that moment when you realized your phone could do more than make calls? Today feels like that—but bigger. Arcade.dev and Lithic just unlocked true agentic commerce: AI agents that can browse, compare, and actually complete purchases. This isn't another chatbot that helps you shop. This is autonomous AI that shops for you. The Agentic Commerce Problem We All Pretended Didn't Exist Here's the dirty secret: Every "agentic commerce" demo you've seen stops at checkout. Why? Because nobod

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Designing SQL Tools for AI Agents

Operational vs Exploratory tools, least‑privilege access, and patterns that make LLMs reliable partners

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MCP

Building MCP Together: Arcade's Contribution to Secure Agent Auth

See URL Mode Elicitation in Action → Watch our engineer Will Dawson walk through the new MCP proposal that's solving one of the biggest security gaps in AI tool-calling. In 15 minutes, you'll see how agents can finally handle OAuth flows, payment confirmations, and API keys without exposing sensitive data to the LLM. Watch the technical walkthrough → Your AI agent needs to search Gmail for that weekly report. You've built an MCP server, the tool definition, everything's wired up perfectly. One
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