Answering Forbes' Questions About Arcade: Portability, Auth, and ROI

Arcade.dev responds to Forbes coverage of its acquisition of Smithery, arguing that the deal reflects growing enterprise demand for MCP-based agent tool catalogs and execution runtimes that can authorize, monitor, and audit agent actions in production. Addressing concerns about vendor lock-in, Arcade says its MCP-compatible tool definitions are open, permissions remain in customers’ existing identity and policy systems, audit data can be exported through OpenTelemetry, and deployments can run in customer VPCs or air-gapped environments. It also describes ToolBench and SkillBench as public, repeatable quality benchmarks whose criteria can be reviewed or challenged by tool developers. On pricing, Arcade says token efficiency and successful execution rates are central to controlling costs when agent workflows increase tool usage, claiming its tools use fewer tokens than typical MCP wrappers and achieve more than a 95% execution success rate.

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