What does Composio cost?
Its pricing page lists Hobby at $0 with 100,000 tool calls a month, Pro at $29/month with a $29 monthly usage credit, and Enterprise with custom pricing.
Beam vs COMPOSIO
Beam vs Composio
Composio and Beam sit at different points. Composio is the layer that gives an agent managed access to apps and tools, with authentication and hosted MCP endpoints. Beam is the layer that watches what the agent does on the machine, scans skills and MCP configurations before they run, and enforces workspace policy. Many teams could use both.
Beam vs Composio, side by side
Details below are drawn from a September 2026 review of the AI agent security market. Some figures are vendor-sourced or analyst estimates, and this is a fast-moving space — check with each vendor before you buy. Composio details come from its own pricing and documentation pages as of October 2026.
| Beam | Composio | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Local-first activity monitor, policy enforcement, and pre-run scanner for AI coding agents, with a Sentinel browser extension for AI chats. | Platform that connects agents to apps and tools, with managed authentication and hosted MCP endpoints. |
| Monitoring | Shell commands, file changes, tool calls, network endpoints and browser actions from harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, plus Beam Sentinel checks on supported AI chat sites before send. Normalised into local NDJSON with risk flags and evidence attached. | Not covered in our source research. Composio's documentation home page does not describe logging or observability, so this is a gap in our research, not a statement about the product. |
| Skill / MCP scanning | Yes. SKILL.md files and MCP configurations are scanned before you run them, using 11 heuristic patterns plus an MCP version-pin check. Workspace admins can also block an MCP server for the org or one user. | Not its purpose. It provides tools and integrations to agents rather than scanning skill files or MCP configurations for risk. |
| Blocking / enforcement | Yes. Workspace owners and admins set observe, advisory, or enforce policy. Enforce denies matching tool calls on Claude Code and Codex PreToolUse hooks. The Sentinel Chrome extension pauses or blocks high-risk browser sends and can hold a send after redacting live secrets. | Not covered in our source research. Pro includes spend controls and Enterprise adds SSO/SCIM and customer-managed keys; policy on what a coding agent may run locally is not described. |
| Individual use | Free for one person on one machine. Team workspaces add owner/admin roles, org baselines, stricter member overrides, MDM, and a control plane. | Yes. Hobby is free with no credit card, 3 team members and 100,000 tool calls a month. |
| Deployment | Local collector plus a workspace dashboard. Apple and Windows MDM. Sentinel Chrome extension for browser AI chats. Licensed self-hosted control plane for teams that need it on their own infrastructure. | Hosted platform with SDKs, a CLI, a hosted MCP endpoint, and native plugins for Codex and Claude Code. Self-hosting is not stated on its documentation home page. |
| Source / licence | AGPL-3.0 for the local CLI and collector; the multi-user control plane is proprietary. | Python and TypeScript SDKs; the hosted platform is a managed service. A licence is not stated on its documentation home page. |
| Pricing | Free for individual, single-machine use. Team plans from $10/seat/month. | Hobby is free (100,000 tool calls a month); Pro is $29/month; Enterprise is custom. |
Composio in numbers
As reported in our source research. Some figures are estimates.
- Toolkits
- 1,500+ on its pricing page
- Free tier
- 100,000 tool calls and 50,000 triggers a month
- Pro
- $29/month with a $29 monthly usage credit
- Enterprise only
- SSO/SCIM and customer-managed keys
Where Composio does more
- It manages OAuth for connected accounts, including consent, token storage, refresh and scopes, on every plan.
- It offers 1,500+ toolkits and a hosted MCP endpoint that works with clients such as Claude Desktop, Cursor and the OpenAI Agents SDK.
- It has a free tier with 100,000 tool calls a month and a clear $29 Pro plan.
Where Beam differs
- Beam watches what a coding agent does on the machine (shell commands, file changes, network endpoints), including calls that never go through a gateway.
- Beam scans skill files and MCP configurations before you run them and lets workspace admins block an MCP server for the org or one user.
- Beam runs locally with credentials redacted before anything is written, and it also supports app monitoring: a running application's logs and traffic, with alerts through webhooks and dependency checks against known vulnerabilities.
Beam’s current gaps
- Enforce is hook-based: a native deny is wired for Claude Code and Codex PreToolUse. Cursor, Copilot CLI and Gemini currently get a deny note, not a verified block.
- Missing, unreadable or expired cached policy allows the action. Beam is not a fail-closed kernel sandbox or an in-silicon watchdog.
- Scanning is heuristic pattern matching. It produces false positives, misses novel phrasing, and is not a guarantee of safety.
- There is no SOC 2 report and no default SIEM forwarder. Kernel isolation like OpenShell remains a different layer.
Which one fits
If your agents need to act across many SaaS apps without you building each OAuth flow, Composio solves that and Beam does not. If your concern is what coding agents run on laptops and servers, which skills and MCP servers they load, and whether credentials leak, that is Beam's job. Beam's enforcement is hook-based and its scanning is heuristic.
FAQ
Is Composio an alternative to Beam?
Mostly complementary. Composio manages authentication and tool access for agents; Beam monitors and enforces policy on what coding agents do locally and scans skills and MCP configurations. The overlap is MCP: Beam can scan and block MCP servers, while Composio provides hosted MCP endpoints.
Does Beam replace an MCP gateway?
No. Beam does not proxy tool calls or manage OAuth for connected apps. It observes and, on Claude Code and Codex, can deny matching tool calls through PreToolUse hooks.
Does Beam monitor applications as well as agents?
Yes. App monitoring follows a running application's logs and HTTP access logs, flags attack patterns, and sends findings to your workspace and webhooks. Detection is heuristic and does not replace a web application firewall.
See how Beam works
Beam is an early, local-first prototype. Read what it actually does today before comparing it further.