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Composio alternatives in 2026

Composio gives an AI agent 1,500+ toolkits and handles each user's sign-in, and its free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls a month. The seven alternatives below differ in how they charge, where they run and how the agent signs in. We read each vendor's own pages on November 8, 2026.

By Vadim DunaevskiyUpdated November 8, 2026Sources checked November 8, 20266 min read

What Composio does, and what it costs

Composio sells a developer platform with SDKs, tools and sign-in for agents and backend apps. It also connects Claude or ChatGPT to the apps a person already uses, such as Gmail, Slack, Notion and Calendar.¹ Every plan includes its 1,500+ toolkits.¹

The free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month, unlimited connected accounts and three team members, and usage pauses at those limits. Pro costs $29 a month and includes $29 of credit that expires at the end of each month. Past the free amounts, each tool call on Pro uses $0.0003 of credit.¹ For most uses, Composio's docs recommend sessions, which give an agent dynamic access to tools and manage its context.²

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Every tool and what it costs

How we picked

Each platform below gives an agent ready-made tools for other apps and handles the sign-in to them, which is the job Composio does. Each one publishes its prices or says how it charges. Conecto is our product. It is listed last, and it works another way: it hosts the business tools itself.

The alternatives at a glance

Platform	What your agent gets	Free tier	Paid plans start at
Nango	Sign-in for 1,200+ APIs and MCP servers, 10,000+ prebuilt tools	10 connections and 10 compute hours a month	$50 a month, with $50 of credit³
Arcade	8,000+ permission-aware tools	2,000 tool calls a month	$25 a month, plus $0.01 a tool call^4,5
Pipedream Connect	3,000+ connectors, 10,000+ prebuilt tools and triggers	Free while you build and test	$99 a month billed annually⁶
Merge Agent Handler	Connectors to thousands of business tools	2,000 credits a month	$1,000 a month, for 25,000 credits^7,8
Scalekit AgentKit	600+ connectors, 30,000+ tools	10,000 tool calls a month	$99 a month, for 100,000 tool calls¹⁰
Paragon ActionKit	1,000+ integration actions	A free trial	Set by your number of connected users^11,12
Zapier MCP	66,000+ triggers and actions across 9,000+ apps	100 tasks a month	$19.99 a month^13,15
Conecto	581 business tools it hosts itself	$1.00 of credit at sign-up	Pay per call: reading free up to a million reads a month, a change $0.01¹⁶

Nango

Nango handles sign-in for 1,200+ APIs and MCP servers, stores and refreshes each credential, and offers 10,000+ prebuilt tools, triggers and syncs. You can extend them or write your own.³ The free plan has hard limits that reset each month: 10 connections, 10 hours of compute and 10 GB of data transfer. Pay-as-you-go costs $50 a month with $50 of credit, then $0.29 a connection, $0.72 an hour of compute and $0.50 a GB. Self-hosting comes with the Enterprise plan.³

Good for: a team that wants to write and own its integration code.

Arcade

Arcade gives agents 8,000+ permission-aware tools, and you can add MCP servers you build or bring. Sign-in runs through your company's identity provider, and the agent acts as its user, within that user's permissions.⁵ The free plan includes 2,000 tool calls a month. Team costs $25 a month plus $0.01 a tool call. Enterprise can run on Arcade's cloud, in your own cloud or fully air-gapped.⁴

Good for: agents that act for individual employees, under the company's own access rules.

Pipedream Connect

Pipedream Connect is for developers who add connectors to their agents and apps. It offers 3,000+ connectors and 10,000+ prebuilt tools and triggers, with MCP servers on every plan.⁶ Building and testing are free. Serving real users takes the Startup plan, at $99 a month billed annually or $150 billed monthly. It includes 100 users and 10,000 usage credits, then $2 a user and $0.012 a credit.⁶

Good for: a product whose own users connect their accounts to its agent.

Merge Agent Handler

Merge Agent Handler connects agents to thousands of business tools, and users sign in to each one through a guided flow.⁷ It manages credentials and permissions and keeps an audit trail of every tool call. The free plan includes 2,000 credits a month and unlimited registered users. Pro costs $1,000 a month for 25,000 credits, and Enterprise adds on-premises deployment and custom connectors.⁸

Good for: software companies whose customers ask for a log of everything the agent did.

Scalekit AgentKit

Scalekit's AgentKit connects each tool, signs the user in and limits the tool to that user's access.⁹ It lists 600+ connectors and 30,000+ tools and charges per tool call. The free plan includes 10,000 tool calls a month and unlimited connected accounts. Growth costs $99 a month for 100,000 tool calls, then $0.50 per 1,000.¹⁰

Good for: teams that want a flat price per tool call.

Paragon ActionKit

Paragon's ActionKit gives an AI agent product 1,000+ integration actions through one API or MCP server.¹¹ Every Paragon plan includes ActionKit beside Paragon's data sync and workflow products, with usage set by your number of connected users. The pricing page offers a free trial and lists no amounts.¹²

Good for: a software company that also wants data syncs and workflows from the same vendor.

Zapier MCP

Zapier MCP lets an agent search 9,000+ apps and 66,000+ triggers and actions for the right tool.¹³ Each successful tool call uses two tasks from your Zapier plan, and failed calls don't count.¹⁴ The Free plan includes 100 tasks a month. Professional starts at $19.99 a month and Team at $69.¹⁵ We compare it with six other options in Zapier MCP alternatives.

Good for: one person connecting their own agent to many apps, with no code.

Conecto

Conecto is our product. It hosts the business tools themselves, among them a CRM, an inbox on your business's own subdomain, invoices, bookkeeping, a help desk and a calendar. There are 581 tools in 52 areas behind one MCP server, https://api.conecto.chat/v1/mcp.^16,17 Your agent signs itself up and gets $1.00 of credit. Reading is free up to 1,000,000 reads a month, a record change costs $0.01, a failed call costs nothing, and each key starts with a $20 daily budget.¹⁶

Good for: a business whose own agent runs its CRM, inbox and books, paid per call. To connect apps your users already have, a platform above fits better.

How to choose

You build an agent product and want to own the integration code: Nango.
Your agents act for employees under strict permissions: Arcade.
Your users connect their own accounts, at volume: Pipedream Connect or Scalekit.
Your customers ask for audit logs or on-premises hosting: Merge Agent Handler.
You want the most apps for your own agent, with no code: Zapier MCP.
Your agent runs your own business's back office: Conecto.

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Questions

Is Composio free?

Its Hobby plan is free, with 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month, and usage pauses at those limits.¹

Which Composio alternative has the largest free tier?

Of the alternatives we read, Scalekit includes the most, with 10,000 tool calls a month.¹⁰ Arcade includes 2,000 tool calls and Merge 2,000 credits a month,^4,8 and Pipedream is free while you build and test.⁶

What does one tool call cost?

Past the free amounts, a tool call uses $0.0003 of credit on Composio Pro, and costs $0.0005 on Scalekit Growth and $0.01 on Arcade Team.^1,4,10 On Zapier, a call uses two tasks from your plan.¹⁴ On Conecto, reading is free up to a million reads a month and a change costs $0.01.¹⁶

Is there a self-hosted alternative to Composio?

Nango offers self-hosting on its Enterprise plan, and its integrations live in an open-source repository you can contribute to.³ Arcade's Enterprise plan can run in your own cloud or fully air-gapped.⁴

Sources

We read these pages on November 8, 2026. Each number in the guide links to the page behind that sentence.

Conecto publishes this guide and sells business tools for AI agents. How we write our guides. To report a mistake, write to hello@conecto.chat.

Written by Vadim Dunaevskiy, Co-founder of Conecto. LinkedIn