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Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform vs MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms
Short answer
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, and govern agents; MuleSoft Agent Fabric is a control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms.Source 1, Source 2, Source 3 Agent Platform runs agents on Agent Runtime, at published usage prices, while Agent Fabric’s scanners register agents from supported platforms and its package lists no price.Source 4, Source 5, Source 6, Source 7, Source 8
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
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
At a glance
What each one is
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, and govern agents, described as an evolution of Vertex AI.Source 1, Source 2 Agent Registry catalogs agents and MCP servers, Agent Identity can give agents on supported runtimes an identity, and Agent Gateway checks traffic against policy.Source 4, Source 9, Source 15
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
MuleSoft documents Agent Fabric as an AI control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms.Source 3 Scanners and manual registration fill its registry, Omni Gateway enforces policy in managed agents’ request path, and agent brokers orchestrate A2A-compliant agents.Source 6, Source 11, Source 20
The differences that matter
Building and running agents
Agents on other platforms
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformAgents hosted outside Google Cloud can be registered manually; Agent Gateway can govern calls to them from Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 4, Source 16
MuleSoft Agent FabricScanners register agents, APIs, and MCP servers they find on supported platforms, and MuleSoft says third-party agents can be governed without being modified.Source 6, Source 12
Agent Identity is listed for Agent Runtime, the Gemini Enterprise app, and Cloud Run.Source 15 Agent Fabric needs Omni Gateway in the request path for managed instances and rogue-agent containment.Source 3
Policy on agent traffic
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformBy default, Agent Gateway blocks agents’ outbound calls without an IAM access policy grant; its Model Armor filters can scan prompts and tool responses.Source 4
MuleSoft Agent FabricGovernance strategies set access, privacy, cost, and compliance rules for agents, APIs, and MCP servers in scope; Omni Gateway can limit which tools agents call.Source 6
Google’s Semantic Governance policies, in preview, check each proposed tool call and deny those that break policy; Agent Fabric can cap a model-proxy caller’s token or dollar spend.Source 6, Source 22
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.
| Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | MuleSoft Agent Fabric | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | ||
| What it is and who it’s for | Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents, described as an evolution of Vertex AI, for developers and technical teams.Source 1, Source 2 | An AI control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms.Source 3 MuleSoft says it discovers, governs, orchestrates, and observes agents.Source 7 |
| Maturity | Google announced it on 22 April 2026.Source 32 Registry and Gateway GA 18 June 2026.Source 19 Agent Identity is generally available; the Agent Identity API is in preview.Source 19 | MuleSoft says it is generally available, with new capabilities each month.Source 12 Its first release note is dated 3 October 2025.Source 11 |
| Control | ||
| Agent registry and discovery | Agent Registry: a per-project catalog of agents, MCP servers, and tools.Source 9, Source 33 Agents on supported runtimes can be registered automatically, others manually.Source 34, Source 35 | One inventory of agents, MCP servers, and APIs, whatever platform built them.Source 6 Scanners fill it; agents can also be added by uploading an agent card.Source 6, Source 20 |
| Identity and access control | Agents on supported runtimes can have a SPIFFE-based identity.Source 15 IAM policies link it to approved tools; by default, Agent Gateway blocks calls without a grant.Source 4 | Omni Gateway can require authentication and authorization and limit which tools and APIs an agent can call.Source 6 User roles come from Anypoint access management.Source 3 |
| Ownership, policy, and revocation | Allow and deny access policies (deny overrides allow), enforce and dry-run modes, and Model Armor filters.Source 4, Source 25 An agent owner field is not publicly documented. | Governance strategies set rules for in-scope agents, APIs, and MCP servers and can block or flag noncompliance.Source 6 MuleSoft says scanners pull ownership metadata.Source 12 |
| Audit log and observability | Registry admin changes are audit-logged; reads only if Data Access logs are on.Source 26, Source 27 Gateway logs record access requests.Source 36 Traces need agents’ OpenTelemetry data.Source 37 | Omni Gateway can keep a traffic audit trail.Source 6 Platform audit logs are kept a year by default; Integration Advanced or Titanium adds export to third-party tools.Source 28 |
| Connection | ||
| How agents connect | Agent Gateway can govern calls in and out of Runtime agents, and out of the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 4 Outside agents are registered by endpoint or agent card.Source 16 | Omni Gateway sits in the request path of each managed agent, API, or MCP server.Source 6 An egress gateway carries agent networks’ calls to agents outside the network.Source 23 |
| Agents across organizations | Agent Runtime agents can call agents anywhere through Agent Gateway.Source 4 Partners sharing agents under access they control: not publicly documented. | An agent network’s egress gateway enforces policy on calls to agents outside the network.Source 23 Partner-held access controls: not publicly documented. |
| Protocol support | Agent Registry catalogs MCP servers and A2A agents; Agent Gateway carries MCP and A2A traffic.Source 4, Source 35, Source 38 A2A agents on Agent Runtime are in preview.Source 39 | Omni Gateway supports MCP and A2A.Source 10 MCP Bridge turns an API into an MCP server without custom code; an A2A bridge presents Agentforce agents as A2A-compliant.Source 3, Source 6 |
| Frameworks, models, and clouds supported | Agent Development Kit or any open-source framework, with Gemini or other Model Garden models.Source 40 Agents hosted outside Google Cloud can be registered manually.Source 16 | MuleSoft calls it vendor agnostic and says its scanners cover Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Databricks, and more.Source 7, Source 12 Brokers orchestrate only A2A-compliant agents.Source 6 |
| Operations | ||
| Deployment options and data residency | Agent Gateway is managed and regional; agent infrastructure data at rest stays in the chosen location.Source 41, Source 42 Self-hosted Registry or Gateway: not publicly documented. | Agent Fabric runs on MuleSoft-hosted control planes.Source 43 Omni Gateway can be self-managed.Source 3, Source 44 A self-hosted Agent Fabric control plane isn’t publicly documented. |
| Compliance attestations | Google lists Agent Platform in scope for ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018, SOC 1, 2, and 3, and PCI DSS, and among products the Google Cloud HIPAA BAA includes.Source 29, Source 30 | MuleSoft says Anypoint Platform is certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.Source 31 An attestation naming Agent Fabric is not publicly documented. |
| Support and SLA | Google Cloud support packages, including 24/7 coverage.Source 45 An uptime SLA naming Agent Registry, Gateway, Identity, or Runtime is not publicly documented. | MuleSoft’s Cloud Offerings SLA commits to 99.95% monthly availability for covered services, for orders started by 1 May 2025.Source 46 Premier Success Plans are offered.Source 47 |
| Time and effort to get running | A Google Cloud project with the Agent Registry API enabled, plus the Identity-Aware Proxy API for gateway policy.Source 33 Google recommends a dry run in staging.Source 25 | With product access, an admin turns Agent Fabric on.Source 3 Agent networks need a Managed Omni Gateway; scanners need a connected cloud provider for each source.Source 3 |
| Pricing model and public prices | Agent Registry is free; skill scanning is billed from January 2027.Source 18 Gateway egress: $0.085 per 15,000 requests; runtime: $0.085 a vCPU-hour.Source 5 Monthly free tier.Source 5 | MuleSoft packages from $2,000 a month, billed annually, metered in Mule Credits.Source 8 MuleSoft lists the Agent Fabric package with no price: contact sales.Source 8 |
| Building | ||
| Agent building tools | Agent Studio (low-code canvas), the open-source Agent Development Kit, and Agent Garden prebuilt agents and templates.Source 1, Source 40 A Managed Agents API is in preview.Source 1 | Agent networks are defined in YAML, brokers in Agent Script.Source 6, Source 21 MuleSoft says Salesforce’s separate Agentforce is for building agents within Salesforce.Source 12 |
| Model access | Google says Model Garden offers more than 200 models, including Gemini, third-party models such as Anthropic’s Claude, and open-source models.Source 1, Source 32 | Brokers support OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Bedrock OpenAI, and Gemini models.Source 21 Model Proxy is one access layer for several providers, with spend caps.Source 6, Source 48 |
| Integrations and ecosystem | Agents in Agent Registry can be made available to users of the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 41 Google’s own remote MCP servers are registered automatically.Source 38 | The catalog has curated public MCP servers from the Official MCP Registry and Informatica.Source 6 Policies can apply to Apigee, Kong, and Azure API Management APIs.Source 3 |
Which to choose
Choose Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform if
- You want one platform to build, run, and govern agents, using the Agent Development Kit and, Google says, over 200 models.Source 1, Source 4, Source 32, Source 40
- Your agents run on Google Cloud, where agents on supported runtimes, such as Google Kubernetes Engine, can be registered automatically.Source 34, Source 35
- You want SPIFFE-based identities for agents on supported runtimes, such as Agent Runtime, and outbound gateway calls blocked by default.Source 4, Source 15
- You want usage-based prices: Agent Registry is free, with skill scanning billed from January 2027, and gateway and runtime have list prices.Source 5, Source 18
Choose MuleSoft Agent Fabric if
- Your agents already run on several platforms, and you want scanners, which MuleSoft says cover Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, to register them.Source 6, Source 7
- You already run MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform: Agent Fabric uses Anypoint Platform access management.Source 3
- You want rules set once for in-scope agents, APIs, and MCP servers, and existing APIs turned into MCP servers without custom code.Source 6
- You want brokers to orchestrate A2A-compliant agents, and a reversible quarantine for rogue agents after an admin reviews them.Source 6, Source 11, Source 17
Questions buyers ask
How do they relate to the Gemini Enterprise app and Agentforce?
The Gemini Enterprise app is a separate Google product; agents in Agent Registry can be made available to its users.Source 41 MuleSoft describes Salesforce’s separate Agentforce as for building agents within Salesforce; Agent Fabric’s A2A bridge makes Agentforce agents A2A-compliant so Agent Fabric can orchestrate them.Source 3, Source 12, Source 50
How is each one priced?
Agent Registry is free; skill scanning is billed from January 2027.Source 18 Agent Gateway egress is $0.085 per 15,000 requests; Agent Runtime, $0.085 per vCPU-hour plus memory.Source 5 MuleSoft packages start at $2,000 a month, billed annually; the Agent Fabric package lists no price: contact sales.Source 8
Do they support MCP and A2A?
Agent Registry catalogs MCP servers and A2A agents, and Agent Gateway carries both protocols; A2A agents on Agent Runtime are in preview.Source 4, Source 35, Source 38, Source 39 Omni Gateway supports both; A2A powers orchestration in agent networks, and MCP Bridge turns an API into an MCP server without custom code.Source 6, Source 10, Source 51
Can either one be self-hosted?
Agent Fabric’s Omni Gateway can be self-managed, in a data center or on GKE, EKS, or AKS; MuleSoft hosts regional Anypoint control planes.Source 3, Source 43, Source 44 Agent Gateway is managed and regional.Source 41 Self-hosting Google’s registry or gateway, or the Agent Fabric control plane, isn’t publicly documented.
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Sources
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Source 2: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) Back:abc
Source 5: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform pricing Back:abcdefg
Source 6: Agent Fabric Overview Back:abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz272829303132
Source 7: MuleSoft Agent Fabric | Agent Governance and Orchestration Back:abcd
Source 8: MuleSoft Pricing | Plans From $2,000 a Month Back:abcdef
Source 10: Securing Agent Interactions with Omni Gateway Back:abc
Source 12: See Every Agent. Govern Every Agent. Control AI Costs. (mulesoft.com home page) Back:abcdefghijkl
Source 13: Salesforce Expands MuleSoft Agent Fabric with Automated Discovery for Any AI Agent or Tool Back to text
Source 19: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform release notes Back:abcd
Source 21: Building Agent Networks for Agent Fabric Back:abc
Source 22: Semantic governance policies overview Back to text
Source 23: Deploying Agent Network Ingress and Egress Managed Omni Gateways Back:abc
Source 24: OAuth 2.0 OBO Credential Injection Policy Back to text
Source 29: Google Cloud Platform Services in Scope by Compliance Program Back:ab
Source 32: Introducing Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, powering the next wave of agents Back:abc
Source 36: Monitor traffic through Agent Gateway Back to text
Source 40: Build with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Back:abc
Source 42: Supported locations for agents in Agent Platform Back to text
Source 46: MuleSoft Cloud Offerings Service Level Agreement (SLA) for subscriptions with an Order Start Date on or before May 1, 2025 Back to text
Source 47: MuleSoft Subscription Plans - effective for Customer purchases made from Salesforce on or after June 27, 2025 Back to text
Source 50: Enhanced MuleSoft Experience Release Notes Back to text
Source 51: Using A2A Protocol in Agent Networks Back to text