What is Robinhood Agentic Trading?
Robinhood Agentic Trading, launched in beta on May 27, 2026, lets any MCP-capable AI agent (Robinhood names Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and Grok) connect to Robinhood and place trades for you. You paste one server URL into your agent, authorize it through Robinhood, and it can read positions and trade. The beta is equities only; Robinhood says options, crypto, event contracts, and futures are coming.
Two design choices define it. First, the agent acts inside a dedicated agentic account you open and fund separately: by Robinhood's own description, the agent can only touch the money you move into that account, not your main brokerage balance, your retirement accounts, or your bank. Second, you bring an outside agent, and as Robinhood discloses, once your data reaches that agent it leaves Robinhood's environment and Robinhood does not supervise or audit it. Both choices are reasonable for a broker opening a door to third-party AI. They are also exactly why it is a different product from Tengu.
What is Tengu?
Tengu is the AI portfolio manager that connects 25+ brokerages, including Robinhood, Schwab, Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, Coinbase, and Kraken, and executes the trades you approve through your own broker. Never custodial. Tengu is not an agent you have to find and bring: it is the agent, pre-built, with research and risk gates already inside it. It reads your whole portfolio across every connected account, answers with cited data from 229 finance tools, applies position limits and circuit breakers to every order, and routes execution to whichever of your accounts the trade belongs in. It is the independent layer above the brokers, building toward the AI family office: the coordination a wealthy family's money team does, as software.
See it on your own portfolio: connect a broker and ask Tengu anything about your money.
Try Tengu freeTengu vs Robinhood Agentic Trading: the comparison
| Robinhood Agentic Trading | Tengu | |
|---|---|---|
| The agent | You bring your own; Robinhood does not supervise it | Tengu is the agent: research and risk gates built in |
| Where it acts | One dedicated Robinhood account you fund separately | Across the accounts you already have at 25+ brokers |
| Sees your whole portfolio | No, only money moved into the agentic account | Yes, every connected account |
| Cross-account moves (rebalancing, tax-loss harvesting) | Not possible by design | The core use case |
| Research | Whatever the agent you bring can do | Built in: 229 finance tools, cited answers grounded in your positions |
| Risk gates | Optional per-trade approval; fully autonomous trading is allowed | Position-size limits, leverage caps, drawdown circuit breakers on every order |
| Custody | Robinhood holds the funds | Your existing brokers keep custody; Tengu holds none |
| Assets | Equities in beta; more coming | Equities, options, and crypto across supported brokers |
| Price | Included with Robinhood | Free to start; Chat $20/mo; Platform $149/mo |
When Robinhood Agentic Trading is the right choice
If all of your investing already happens at Robinhood, you are comfortable opening and funding a separate account just for the agent, and you have an AI agent you trust to bring, Robinhood's integration is free, first-party, and well-designed. There is no reason to add a layer you do not need.
When Tengu is the right choice
If your money lives in more than one place, and for most investors it does, a single-account agent can only optimize a fragment. Portfolio decisions require seeing everything at once: spotting that two accounts hold the same risk, harvesting a loss in one against a gain in another, rebalancing across all of them together. That is the job of the layer above the brokers. And if you do not want to go find an agent, vet it, and hand it a freshly funded account, Tengu is the agent already, with the research and the guardrails inside it. Robinhood lets an agent trade one Robinhood account. Tengu is the agent, and it manages your whole portfolio.