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Alternatives to Cloudflare MCP server portals
Cloudflare MCP server portals
Cloudflare One feature that puts MCP servers behind one governed endpoint
Summary
An MCP server portal puts multiple MCP servers behind one HTTP endpoint, governed through Cloudflare Access.Source 1, Source 2 Cloudflare says MCP server portals are part of Cloudflare One, its SASE platform.Source 3, Source 4 Admins can choose which tools each portal exposes, Access policies decide who can connect, and Access logs individual tool requests.Source 1
Where Cloudflare MCP server portals sits
Six layers of running AI agents at a company, and what Cloudflare MCP server portals’s own public sources say it covers. Each alternative below gets the same six layers as a strip.
Cloudflare MCP server portals
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
How to read the strips
- 01Build agents
- 02Host and run agents
- 03Identity and access
- 04Registry and governance
- 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models
- 06Agents across organizations
- Offered
- Preview
- You build it
- Not included
- Not publicly documented
Gateways, identity, and security
3 alternatives
The group Cloudflare MCP server portals sit in, so listed first.
Kong AI Gateway
Gateway that governs LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic
Where it sitsSource 5, Source 6, Source 7
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Per-agent allow or deny lists
- Registry and governance: Preview, Konnect Catalog agents
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Gateway for LLM, MCP, A2A
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A gateway for LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent (A2A) traffic.Source 8 In 2.x, it also proxies calls to agents, through data plane nodes you run while Kong manages the control plane.Source 5, Source 8
Okta for AI Agents
Okta offering that gives AI agents a first-class identity so organizations can discover, onboard, protect, and govern them
Where it sitsSource 9, Source 10, Source 11
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Agent identity and credentials
- Registry and governance: Offered, Universal Directory with human owners
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Preview, Agent Gateway for MCP tools
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
Okta says it gives AI agents a first-class identity.Source 12 Admins register agents and define which resources each can access.Source 13, Source 14 Its Agent Gateway, in preview, puts tools from several remote MCP servers behind one endpoint.Source 11
Zenity AI Agent Security & Governance Platform
Security and governance platform for AI agents, aimed at security teams
Where it sitsSource 15, Source 16
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Not publicly documented
- Registry and governance: Offered, AI Observability agent inventory
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Tool-call blocking for coding agents
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A security and governance platform for AI agents.Source 17 Zenity says it finds agents, including ones inside SaaS platforms or on laptops, and its Runtime Boundaries can block some agent actions in real time.Source 15, Source 18
Agent control planes
5 alternatives
Blocks.ai
Network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company
Where it sitsSource 19, Source 20, Source 21, Source 22, Source 23
- Build agents: Not included, Use LangChain or CrewAI
- Host and run agents: Not included, You run your agent
- Identity and access: Offered, Machine identity per agent
- Registry and governance: Offered, Private registry and Admin Console
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Private network for every agent
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Partners share only chosen agents
Blocks.ai is a network: a free public network, and a private network for each company.Source 22, Source 24 Blocks.ai doesn’t build or host agents.Source 19, Source 20 On a company’s private network, each agent has an owner.Source 25
Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft 365 control plane to discover, manage, govern, and secure AI agents
Where it sitsSource 26, Source 27, Source 28, Source 29, Source 30
- Build agents: Not included, Use your chosen framework
- Host and run agents: Not included, You host your agent
- Identity and access: Offered, Entra Agent ID
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent registry in admin center
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Preview, Tooling Gateway for MCP servers
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A Microsoft 365 control plane for the agents themselves: its registry lists Microsoft and non-Microsoft agents, and each agent can have its own Microsoft Entra agent identity.Source 28, Source 31, Source 32
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms
Where it sitsSource 33
- Build agents: Offered, Agent brokers in Agent Script
- Host and run agents: Offered, Agent brokers on CloudHub 2.0
- Identity and access: Offered, Omni Gateway authentication and authorization
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry in Anypoint Exchange
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Omni Gateway in request path
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms, with one Agent Registry for all three.Source 33, Source 34 Its agent brokers orchestrate A2A-compliant agents.Source 33, Source 35
ServiceNow AI Control Tower
What ServiceNow calls a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI
Where it sitsSource 36, Source 37, Source 38
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Scoped OAuth tokens (community docs)
- Registry and governance: Offered, AI inventory tied to CMDB
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, AI Gateway (community docs)
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
ServiceNow describes it as a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI.Source 37 Its kill switch can contain a managed agent and revoke all of its active credentials across connected systems.Source 39, Source 40
Cloudflare MCP server portals vs ServiceNow AI Control Tower
Workday Agent System of Record
Workday system of record to find, add, register, configure, monitor, and manage AI agents
Where it sitsSource 41, Source 42, Source 43
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Agent System User per agent
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry in Management Hub
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Agent Gateway for Workday APIs
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
Workday’s system of record to find, register, and manage AI agents, set up in each tenant.Source 42, Source 44 Each agent has a unique Workday identity.Source 41 External agents are registered only through its API.Source 45
Cloudflare MCP server portals vs Workday Agent System of Record
Platforms to build and run agents
6 alternatives
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents
Where it sitsSource 46, Source 47, Source 48, Source 49, Source 50
- Build agents: Offered, Harness managed agent loop
- Host and run agents: Offered, AgentCore Runtime
- Identity and access: Offered, AgentCore Identity workload identities
- Registry and governance: Offered, AWS Agent Registry with approvals
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, AgentCore Gateway
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Registry shared through AWS RAM
AWS’s platform to build, deploy, and operate agents, with AgentCore Runtime, a serverless runtime for deploying them.Source 46 AWS Agent Registry catalogs agents as well as MCP servers, tools, and skills.Source 48
CrewAI AMP
Platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling CrewAI crews and agents
Where it sitsSource 51, Source 52, Source 53, Source 54, Source 55, Source 56
- Build agents: Offered, Crew Studio visual editor
- Host and run agents: Offered, Managed infrastructure for crews
- Identity and access: Offered, Per-deployment allow lists
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Repositories
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Custom MCP server connections
- Agents across organizations: Preview, Public A2A agents
A platform to deploy, monitor, and scale CrewAI crews and agents in production, built in code or in Crew Studio.Source 52 Crews can deploy to managed infrastructure, and AMP can connect to external MCP servers.Source 52, Source 55
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents
Where it sitsSource 57, Source 58, Source 59, Source 60
- Build agents: Offered, Agent Studio low-code canvas
- Host and run agents: Offered, Agent Runtime
- Identity and access: Offered, SPIFFE-based Agent Identity
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Agent Gateway
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Gateway calls to outside agents
Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, and govern agents, with Agent Studio, a low-code canvas, for designing them.Source 57, Source 61 Its Agent Registry catalogs AI agents as well as MCP servers and tools.Source 60
Cloudflare MCP server portals vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Agent management platform to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents
Where it sitsSource 62, Source 63, Source 64, Source 65, Source 66
- Build agents: Offered, Visual builder and ADK
- Host and run agents: Offered, Agents run on watsonx Orchestrate
- Identity and access: Preview, Agent identity
- Registry and governance: Offered, Agentic Control Plane
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, A2A calls to agent endpoints
- Agents across organizations: Offered, Partner A2A agents in catalog
IBM calls it an agent management platform to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents.Source 67 Agents configured with its Agent Development Kit run on it.Source 63 Its agents can use tools imported from MCP servers.Source 68
LangSmith
Platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents
Where it sitsSource 69, Source 70, Source 71, Source 72, Source 73
- Build agents: Offered, Fleet agent builder
- Host and run agents: Offered, LangSmith Deployment runtime
- Identity and access: Offered, Fleet per-agent permissions
- Registry and governance: Offered, Centralized registry in Deployment
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Fleet forwards MCP tool calls
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
LangChain calls it a framework-agnostic platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents.Source 74 LangSmith Deployment runs agents in production on Plus or above.Source 70 LangSmith can also be self-hosted or hybrid, on Enterprise.Source 75
n8n
Platform for AI agents and workflows you can see and control, built visually or with code
Where it sitsSource 76, Source 77, Source 78, Source 79
- Build agents: Offered, LangChain-based AI Agent node
- Host and run agents: Offered, Your infrastructure or n8n’s
- Identity and access: Not publicly documented
- Registry and governance: Preview, Agents stored in projects
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, MCP client for external tools
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
n8n says you build AI agents and workflows in it, visually or with code, on n8n Cloud or self-hosted.Source 77, Source 80 n8n can itself act as an MCP server and as an MCP client.Source 79, Source 81
Build it yourself
1 alternative
Not a product: your own team assembles the pieces.
Build it yourself (DIY)
Building agent connections and controls in-house from open protocols, existing infrastructure, and open-source tools
Where it sitsSource 82, Source 83, Source 84, Source 85, Source 86, Source 87
- Build agents: You build it, Open-source frameworks like ADK
- Host and run agents: You build it, Self-hosted, like LangGraph
- Identity and access: You build it, Your own identity provider
- Registry and governance: You build it, Your own agent registry
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: You build it, Your gateway and service mesh
- Agents across organizations: You build it, A2A with API management
Your team builds agent connections and controls itself, on open protocols such as MCP and A2A.Source 88, Source 89 Uber says it built its own MCP registry and proxy gateway.Source 86
Questions buyers ask
Do Cloudflare MCP server portals keep a registry of agents?
How are Cloudflare MCP server portals priced?
Cloudflare says MCP server portals are available to all Cloudflare customers.Source 91 A separate price for portals is not publicly documented.
Can agents built elsewhere connect to Cloudflare MCP server portals?
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Sources
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Source 1: MCP server portals · Cloudflare One docs Back:abcdefghij
Source 2: MCP governance · Cloudflare Agents docs Back to text
Source 3: Securing the AI Revolution: Introducing Cloudflare MCP Server Portals Back to text
Source 9: Add AI agents manually (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 12: Okta brings first-class identity to AI agents with Agent SSO Back to text
Source 13: Add and register AI agents (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 14: AI agent resource connections (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 15: AI Observability | See Every Agent, Know What it Touches | Zenity Back:ab
Source 18: Runtime Boundaries | The Runtime Boundary for Autonomous AI | Zenity Back to text
Source 19: Why Blocks? Back:ab
Source 24: Pricing Back:ab
Source 26: Agent 365 SDK frequently asked questions | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 27: Microsoft Agent 365 SDK overview | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 29: Agent Registry in Microsoft 365 admin center - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 30: Bring your own (BYO) MCP server in Microsoft 365 admin center - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 31: Microsoft Agent 365 - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 32: Agent Registry convergence with Microsoft Agent 365 | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 36: What's new in AI Gateway v3.4 - September 2026 release (ServiceNow Community, AI Control Tower articles) Back to text
Source 37: AI Control Tower - ServiceNow (product page) Back:ab
Source 38: AI Gateway Implementation Guide (ServiceNow Community, AI Control Tower articles) Back to text
Source 39: AI agent containment using kill switch protocol manually (ServiceNow product documentation, Australia release) Back to text
Source 40: Deactivate a managed AI agent (ServiceNow product documentation, Australia release) Back to text
Source 41: Concept: Agent Security (Workday Administrator Guide) Back:ab
Source 42: About Workday Agents (Workday Administrator Guide) Back:ab
Source 43: Concept: Workday Agent Gateway (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 44: Set Up Agent System of Record (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 45: Register External Agents (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 46: Overview - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Developer Guide) Back:ab
Source 47: Provide identity and credential management for agent applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity Back to text
Source 48: AWS Agent Registry: Discover and manage agents, tools, and resources Back:ab
Source 49: HTTP passthrough targets - AgentCore Gateway Back to text
Source 50: Sharing a registry across accounts with AWS RAM Back to text
Source 61: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) Back to text
Source 62: AI Agent Builder | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Back to text
Source 63: Welcome to IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit Back:ab
Source 65: AI Agent Control Plane | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Back to text
Source 74: LangSmith: The Agent Engineering Platform Back to text
Source 83: langchain-ai/langgraph README (GitHub) Back to text
Source 84: Integrating with Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Keycloak Back to text
Source 86: Designing MCP Gateway Uber's MCP Management Platform - Uber Blog Back:ab
Source 88: Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification Back to text
Source 89: modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol LICENSE (GitHub) Back to text
Source 90: Service token support for MCP server portals · Changelog Back:ab
Source 91: MCP server portals are now generally available · Changelog Back to text
Source 92: agents/examples/a2a · cloudflare/agents (GitHub) Back to text