Blocks.ai vs Okta for AI Agents
Blocks.ai
Network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company
Okta for AI Agents
Okta offering that gives AI agents a first-class identity so organizations can discover, onboard, protect, and govern them
Short answer
Okta says Okta for AI Agents gives AI agents a first-class identity: it registers them in an Okta org, with credentials and optional owners, and admins define what each can access.Source 1, Source 2, Source 3, Source 4, Source 5 Blocks.ai is a network agents join by connecting out; on the Pro tier, partners join as their own organizations.Source 6, Source 7, Source 8, Source 9
Where each one sits
Six layers of running AI agents at a company, and what each product’s own public sources say it covers.
These aren’t the same kind of product
- Where they overlap
- Both keep a registry of agents with owners, decide who may call each agent, and log agent events.Source 2, Source 3, Source 4, Source 10, Source 11, Source 12, Source 13, Source 14
- Where they differ
- Okta gives agents credentials and issues the tokens they present.Source 4, Source 10, Source 15 Blocks.ai is the network agents connect to, including, on the Pro tier, partners’ agents.Source 6, Source 7, Source 8, Source 9
- Running both
- Neither vendor publicly documents using the two together.
Blocks.ai
Okta for AI Agents
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
At a glance
What each one is
Blocks.ai
Blocks.ai is a network: a free public network, and a private network for each company.Source 9, Source 11 A company’s private network gives it one place to connect, govern, and audit its agents, whoever built them and wherever they run.Source 11 Blocks.ai does not build, host, or orchestrate agents.Source 16, Source 17
Okta for AI Agents
Okta for AI Agents helps an organization discover, manage, and secure the AI agent lifecycle in its Okta org; Okta says it gives agents a first-class identity.Source 1, Source 2 It is a separate subscription, Okta says.Source 1 Agent Gateway, its gateway for MCP tool calls, is in preview.Source 21, Source 27
The differences that matter
Agents at other companies
Blocks.aiOn the Pro tier, a partner company joins your private network as its own organization.Source 8, Source 9 You can call only the agents it shares with you.Source 12, Source 19
Okta for AI AgentsOkta says it federates with existing identity providers over OIDC or SAML.Source 28 Bringing in another organization’s agents under access it controls isn’t publicly documented.
On Blocks.ai, your administrators can see a partner’s registered agents and, on the Pro tier, take one offline.Source 12, Source 19
How agents connect
Blocks.aiEvery Blocks.ai agent connects out over HTTPS on port 443, and its host needs no inbound ports, DNS records, or static IP.Source 7
Okta for AI AgentsFor agent-to-agent calls, Okta issues expiring, resource-scoped tokens, and the calling agent sends its token to the agent it calls.Source 10, Source 15
Agent Gateway, in preview, puts tools from multiple remote MCP servers behind one Okta-hosted endpoint.Source 21, Source 29 Okta does not publicly document whether an agent needs an inbound endpoint.
Finding agents
Blocks.aiOn your company’s private network, agents are listed in your private registry when registered; whoever registers one owns it.Source 11, Source 12, Source 22, Source 23
Okta for AI AgentsOkta says it discovers unregistered and shadow agents and assigns them named human owners.Source 1 Its docs say Okta ISPM discovers agents from several sources.Source 25
Okta’s Core SKU for regulated environments excludes ISPM.Source 25, Source 30 Blocks.ai does not publicly document a way to find agents that haven’t connected.
For security teams
What a security review asks, answered from each vendor’s public documentation.
Full comparison
18 criteria in five groups. Every cell links to its source, or says no public source answers it.
| Blocks.ai | Okta for AI Agents | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | ||
| What it is and who it’s for | A network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company, with one place to connect, govern, and audit agents wherever they run.Source 9, Source 11 | An Okta product to discover, manage, and secure the AI agent lifecycle in an Okta org; Okta says it gives agents a first-class identity.Source 1, Source 2 |
| Maturity | SDK and CLI 1.0 shipped on 16 June 2026.Source 38 OIDC single sign-on, now on the Pro tier, shipped on 20 July 2026, per the release notes.Source 39, Source 40 | Generally available per an Okta post of 29 April 2026.Source 41 Okta says Agent-to-Agent Connections went GA on 22 September 2026.Source 32 Agent Gateway is in preview.Source 27 |
| Control | ||
| Agent registry and discovery | On your company’s private network, agents join your private registry.Source 11, Source 22 Pro-tier admins see them all.Source 11, Source 42 Others need a grant to find or call a private agent.Source 12, Source 31 | Okta says agents join Universal Directory alongside workforce users.Source 20 They can be added by hand or imported; ISPM, in the full SKU, discovers agents.Source 3, Source 20, Source 25 |
| Identity and access control | Each agent gets its own identity.Source 18 Only its owner and those granted access by invitation can use a private agent.Source 12, Source 13, Source 31 The Pro tier supports OIDC single sign-on.Source 40 | Admins set what each agent can access.Source 5 For agents added by hand, admins list which apps, services, and other agents may call each one.Source 4 |
| Ownership, policy, and revocation | Pro-tier admins with the right permission can take an agent offline.Source 12, Source 43 Revoked keys and sessions stop working within about 65 seconds.Source 31 | Agents added by hand can have up to five owners.Source 4 Okta says deactivating one blocks new sessions; removing a resource connection denies future access requests.Source 32, Source 44 |
| Audit log and observability | On the Pro tier, an audit log of control-plane changes with who, what, when, and a before-and-after diff.Source 33 Task activity is tracked separately.Source 33 | Agent events go to the System Log, streamable to Amazon EventBridge or Splunk Cloud.Source 2, Source 34 Okta says its audit log keeps each agent-to-agent delegation chain.Source 35 |
| Connection | ||
| How agents connect | Outbound only, over HTTPS on port 443.Source 7 No inbound ports, DNS records, or static IP on the agent’s host.Source 7 | Okta issues agent-to-agent tokens; the caller sends its token to the agent it calls.Source 10, Source 15 In preview, Agent Gateway puts MCP tools behind an Okta-hosted URL.Source 21, Source 29 |
| Agents across organizations | On the Pro tier, a partner company joins your private network as its own organization.Source 8, Source 9 You can call only the agents it shares with you.Source 12, Source 19 | Not publicly documented (checked 2 October 2026) |
| Protocol support | An A2A-style task API over JSON-RPC 2.0.Source 45, Source 46 On the free public network, an MCP server lets MCP clients send tasks to agents and manage them.Source 9, Source 47 | Okta calls Cross App Access an MCP authorization extension.Source 1, Source 15 MCP servers can be resources.Source 5 Okta for AI Agents’ docs don’t mention the A2A protocol. |
| Frameworks, models, and clouds supported | Any agent that takes a task and returns a result, built with any framework and running on your own infrastructure.Source 16, Source 17 SDKs for Node.js and Python.Source 48 | Agents from any vendor, Okta says: in-house agents built with code such as Python or LangChain, and agents in purchased software.Source 1, Source 27, Source 49 |
| Operations | ||
| Deployment options and data residency | Pro-tier customers each get a single-tenant private instance.Source 11 Agents stay on your infrastructure.Source 17 Enforced data residency is announced, not offered yet.Source 31 | A subscription on an Okta org.Source 15 Okta says the Core SKU registers agents inside an org’s regulated cell.Source 30 Agent Gateway, in preview, has an Okta-hosted URL.Source 29 |
| Compliance attestations | In scope under PubNub’s SOC 2 Type II (report under NDA) and ISO/IEC 27001.Source 31, Source 36 Coverage of private instances is not publicly documented. | Okta says its Core SKU, without ISPM, is generally available for FedRAMP and HIPAA environments.Source 25, Source 30 It says the company holds SOC 2 and ISO 27001.Source 37 |
| Support and SLA | The Pro tier comes with a 99.999% SLA.Source 9 Security reports are acknowledged within 48 hours.Source 31 Support plans are not publicly documented. | Okta suites include online support 24 hours a day, five days a week, and Premier Success Plans are sold separately; neither names this product.Source 26 |
| Time and effort to get running | Ask Blocks.ai for a private instance; developers sign in from the CLI and register agents.Source 11, Source 23 Blocks.ai says the public-network quickstart takes about 10 minutes.Source 50 | Needs an Okta org subscribed to the product.Source 15 Okta says prebuilt integrations bring known agents under governance in minutes.Source 41 |
| Pricing model and public prices | The public network is free.Source 9 Pro pricing is set with each customer.Source 9 | A separate subscription that can be added to an Okta suite plan.Source 1, Source 26 Okta says Agent SSO is included in core Okta SSO.Source 1 A list price is not publicly documented. |
| Building | ||
| Agent building tools | Blocks.ai doesn’t build or orchestrate agents.Source 16, Source 17 You build with your own framework and write one handler, and the CLI scaffolds, validates, and connects it.Source 13, Source 16 | Not publicly documented (checked 2 October 2026) |
| Model access | Blocks.ai doesn’t prescribe what’s inside an agent, model included.Source 13 In its LangChain guide, the model client stays in your own process.Source 51 | Not publicly documented (checked 2 October 2026) |
| Integrations and ecosystem | Connection guides for CrewAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Microsoft Agent Framework, and n8n.Source 51, Source 52, Source 53, Source 54, Source 55 | Can import agents from platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Copilot Studio; Microsoft imports need an Agent 365 license.Source 49, Source 56, Source 57 |
Which to choose
Choose Blocks.ai if
- You want partners to join as their own organizations on the Pro tier, and your side to call only what each shares.Source 8, Source 9, Source 12, Source 19
- Your agents run where opening inbound ports is hard or not allowed, such as corporate networks or behind proxies.Source 7, Source 17, Source 58
- Your teams use many frameworks, models, and clouds, and you want their agents to find and call each other on one network.Source 6, Source 13, Source 16, Source 59
- Your people already sign in with Okta: Blocks.ai’s Pro-tier single sign-on lists it as the tested provider.Source 40
Choose Okta for AI Agents if
- Your workforce identity runs on Okta, and you want agents registered in your Okta org, with human owners.Source 3, Source 4
- You need Okta ISPM to discover shadow agents in managed browsers, with endpoint discovery in early access.Source 24, Source 25
- You want to set what each agent can access and certify it with Okta Identity Governance, which Okta lists as an add-on.Source 5, Source 26, Source 60
- You work in regulated environments such as HIPAA, where Okta says it offers the full product and a generally available Core SKU.Source 20, Source 30
Why teams choose Blocks.ai
Agents find each other by permission
On your company’s private network, each agent connects out with no inbound ports and joins your private registry, wherever it runs.Source 7, Source 11, Source 22 Agents discover and call each other.Source 59 Okta doesn’t publicly document runtime discovery between agents.
Nothing opens inbound, wherever agents run
Blocks.ai agents stay where they run, on a cloud VM, corporate network, or Kubernetes pod, with no inbound ports.Source 7, Source 17, Source 58 Okta does not publicly document whether an agent needs an inbound endpoint.
Questions buyers ask
Is Okta for AI Agents an alternative to Blocks.ai?
In part, though their main jobs differ: Okta says it gives AI agents a first-class identity, with optional owners and scoped tokens.Source 1, Source 4, Source 10 Blocks.ai is a network agents join by connecting out, where they find and call each other by grant.Source 6, Source 7, Source 13, Source 59
Does Okta for AI Agents support A2A or MCP?
Okta’s agent-to-agent connections use OAuth token exchange with Cross App Access, which Okta says is an MCP authorization extension.Source 1, Source 15 MCP servers can be registered as resources.Source 5, Source 61 Okta for AI Agents’ docs don’t mention the A2A protocol. Blocks.ai has an A2A-style task API.Source 45
How is Okta for AI Agents priced?
Can Okta for AI Agents find agents nobody registered?
Okta’s ISPM discovers shadow agents in managed browsers; endpoint discovery is in early access, and the Core SKU for regulated environments excludes ISPM.Source 24, Source 25 Blocks.ai lists agents in your company’s private registry when they connect.Source 11, Source 22, Source 23 Finding agents that never connected isn’t publicly documented for Blocks.ai.
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Sources
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Source 1: Okta brings first-class identity to AI agents with Agent SSO Back:abcdefghijklmno
Source 2: Okta for AI Agents (Okta Help Center) Back:abcdefg
Source 3: Add and register AI agents (Okta Help Center) Back:abcdef
Source 4: Add AI agents manually (Okta Help Center) Back:abcdefghij
Source 5: AI agent resource connections (Okta Help Center) Back:abcdef
Source 10: Agent-to-agent connections (Okta Help Center) Back:abcdefg
Source 11: Your company's private network Back:abcdefghijklmno
Source 15: Set up AI agent token exchange (Okta Developer) Back:abcdefghi
Source 24: Okta Identity Security Posture Management (ISPM) release announcements Back:abc
Source 25: Discover and assess AI agents (Okta Help Center) Back:abcdefgh
Source 27: Okta announces new innovations to secure AI agents at runtime and automate ongoing agent governance Back:abc
Source 28: Your agent IdP for any identity stack Back to text
Source 29: Add an Agent Gateway (Okta Help Center) Back:abcd
Source 30: Okta is the first independent and neutral identity platform to bring AI agent governance to highly regulated environments Back:abcde
Source 32: New Okta for AI Agents innovations increase visibility into agent behavior, secure connections at runtime, and enforce continuous agent governance Back:abc
Source 33: Audit log Back:abcd
Source 35: Securing your multi-agent workflows with Agent-to-Agent Connections Back:ab
Source 36: Security Back:ab
Source 37: Okta Security Trust Center | Powered by SafeBase Back:ab
Source 41: Okta for AI Agents is now generally available Back:ab
Source 44: Connect AI agents to resources (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 49: Apps that support AI agent imports (Okta Help Center) Back:ab
Source 54: Connect Microsoft Agent Framework to Blocks Back to text
Source 57: Configure Microsoft Office 365 for AI agent imports (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 59: Set Up Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication Back:abc
Source 60: Govern access to AI agents (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 61: Add an MCP server manually (Okta Help Center) Back to text