Tandem
Tandem is an AI-powered AI Agents tool — Governance runtime that manages AI agents with risk tiers, approvals, and audit trails. Best for: AI Agents. Pricing: Freemium (GateOnAI Score: 60/100).
Governance runtime that manages AI agents with risk tiers, approvals, and audit trails.
Tandem is a governance runtime that controls AI agents when they interact with real tools, code, customer data, and production systems. It enforces step‑level policy checks before each action, determining which built‑in or MCP tools are in scope, what data the agent can see, and whether a risk tier requires human‑in‑the‑loop approval. The runtime records the request, policy decision, approver, tool call, result and audit evidence, and can pause actions for review, preserving approval context for later resume. Tandem is self‑hostable and open‑core: the protocol, SDKs and clients are MIT/Apache‑2.0, while the engine server and governance components are source‑available under BUSL‑1.1, free for evaluation and personal non‑commercial use, with commercial production use requiring a license from Frumu LTD. Designed for teams that let agents perform real‑world tasks such as CRM lookups, API calls, and database operations, Tandem separates intelligence from authority, ensuring agents only have the permissions needed and that high‑risk actions are gated by human approval.
Summary written from Tandem's own website on 23 Oct 2026. Check the vendor's website for current details.
MCP server
Tandem has an MCP server listed in the Official MCP Registry (ac.tandem/docs-mcp). AI assistants and code editors that support MCP can use Tandem directly. Endpoint: https://tandem.ac/mcp.
GateOnAI has not tested this server. Check the provider's documentation before you connect it.
How to evaluate Tandem before you buy
What GateOnAI has on record
- Pricing model: Free plan and paid plans
- GDPR: No statement recorded on GateOnAI - ask the vendor
- EU data hosting: Not recorded on GateOnAI - ask the vendor
- Website check: Online at our check on 30 Oct 2026
Questions to ask the vendor
- Will you sign a GDPR data processing agreement (Article 28) and share your list of sub-processors?
- Where is our data stored and processed, and is it used to train your models?
- What does the free plan include, and what does the plan we need cost per user?
- Can we export all our data, and how is it deleted when we cancel?
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