Arcade vs Tessl
A side-by-side comparison of Arcade and Tessl, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Arcade
Auth-first MCP runtime: brokers per-user OAuth so an agent acts as the real end user, not behind one shared token.
- Real actions in Gmail, GitHub, Slack
- Prebuilt agent-optimized tools
- Open framework for custom tools
- Exposed over MCP standard
- Closed/hosted core platform
- Newer entrant in MCP space
- Setup needed per integration
- Free tier limited
Tessl
A vendor-neutral skill registry that lets teams share, version, and govern agent skills across Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot — not tied to one assistant.
- Vendor-neutral across coding agents
- Versioned, shared skill registry
- Security scanning and policy governance
- Skill evaluation like unit tests
- Young product, fast-evolving
- Enterprise pricing not public
- Agent-skills model still emerging