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Alternatives to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents
Summary
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize agents, described as an evolution of Vertex AI.Source 1, Source 2 Agent Registry catalogs agents at the Google Cloud project level, and Agent Gateway can govern traffic for agents on Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 3, Source 4, Source 5
Where Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform sits
Six layers of running AI agents at a company, and what Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform’s own public sources say it covers. Each alternative below gets the same six layers as a strip.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
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
Platforms to build and run agents
5 alternatives
The group Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform sits in, so listed first.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents
Where it sitsSource 7, Source 8, Source 9, Source 10, Source 11
- 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 for building, deploying, and operating agents with any framework and model.Source 7 It can share registry records with other AWS accounts; Agent Platform’s registry operates at the project level.Source 4, Source 11
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
CrewAI AMP
Platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling CrewAI crews and agents
Where it sitsSource 12, Source 13, Source 14, Source 15, Source 16, Source 17
- 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
CrewAI’s platform for deploying, monitoring, and scaling crews and agents in production; crews are built in code or in Crew Studio.Source 13 Its Enterprise plan can run in your own VPC or infrastructure.Source 18
IBM watsonx Orchestrate
Agent management platform to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents
Where it sitsSource 19, Source 20, Source 21, Source 22, Source 23
- 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 agents; it is sold by plan and runs as SaaS or on premises.Source 24, Source 25, Source 26 In watsonx Orchestrate, agent identity is in private preview.Source 27
LangSmith
Platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents
Where it sitsSource 28, Source 29, Source 30, Source 31, Source 32
- 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 33 It runs in LangChain’s cloud, or self-hosted or hybrid, on Enterprise, and agents hosted elsewhere can send it traces.Source 34, Source 35, Source 36
n8n
Platform for AI agents and workflows you can see and control, built visually or with code
Where it sitsSource 37, Source 38, Source 39, Source 40
- 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 38, Source 41 Its Agents feature, in preview, keeps agents in n8n projects alongside workflows.Source 39
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 42, Source 43, Source 44, Source 45, Source 46
- 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 45, Source 47 Blocks.ai doesn’t build or host agents.Source 42, Source 43 On the Pro tier, partner companies can join as their own organizations.Source 47, Source 48
Microsoft Agent 365
Microsoft 365 control plane to discover, manage, govern, and secure AI agents
Where it sitsSource 49, Source 50, Source 51, Source 52, Source 53
- 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 agents built and run elsewhere.Source 49, Source 50, Source 54 It has an organization-wide registry and is licensed per user; Agent Platform’s registry operates at the project level.Source 4, Source 52, Source 55
MuleSoft Agent Fabric
Control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms
Where it sitsSource 56
- 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.Source 57 Its scanners register agents found on supported platforms, and one scans Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform agents into its registry.Source 56, Source 58
ServiceNow AI Control Tower
What ServiceNow calls a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI
Where it sitsSource 59, Source 60, Source 61
- 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 on the ServiceNow AI Platform to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI.Source 60 For Agent Platform, its kill switch covers only agents with a unique agent identity.Source 62
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform 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 63, Source 64, Source 65
- 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
Set up in each Workday tenant, it registers and manages agents, each with a unique Workday identity.Source 63, Source 64, Source 66 Workday security policies and groups set each agent’s access in Workday.Source 64, Source 67
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform vs Workday Agent System of Record
Gateways, identity, and security
4 alternatives
Cloudflare MCP server portals
Cloudflare One feature that puts MCP servers behind one governed endpoint
Where it sitsSource 68
- Build agents: Not publicly documented
- Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
- Identity and access: Offered, Identity provider or service token
- Registry and governance: Offered, Centrally managed MCP servers
- Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Proxy for MCP tool calls
- Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented
A portal that puts MCP servers behind one URL for MCP clients, with Access policies deciding who connects.Source 68 Admins can choose which tools and prompt templates each portal exposes.Source 68
Cloudflare MCP server portals vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Kong AI Gateway
Gateway that governs LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic
Where it sitsSource 69, Source 70, Source 71
- 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 A2A traffic.Source 72 In version 2.x, it proxies to agents’ own URLs from data plane nodes you run; Google’s Agent Gateway is a managed, regional component.Source 69, Source 72, Source 73
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 74, Source 75, Source 76
- 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 and lets companies manage agents from any vendor.Source 77, Source 78 Okta can import agents from Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.Source 79
Zenity AI Agent Security & Governance Platform
Security and governance platform for AI agents, aimed at security teams
Where it sitsSource 80, Source 81
- 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 that Zenity aims at security teams.Source 82, Source 83 Zenity says it blocks actions inline on Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and coding agents.Source 84
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 85, Source 86, Source 87, Source 88, Source 89, Source 90
- 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 wires open protocols such as A2A and MCP together; A2A leaves authorization logic to the implementer, and MCP authorization is optional.Source 91, Source 92 Uber and Pinterest each say they built an MCP registry.Source 89, Source 93
Questions buyers ask
Does Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform keep a registry of every agent?
Agent Registry catalogs agents, MCP servers, and tools, and operates at the Google Cloud project level.Source 3, Source 4 Agents on supported Google Cloud runtimes can be registered automatically; agents in other projects, on premises, or on external platforms need manual registration.Source 94, Source 95
How is Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform priced?
Agent Registry is free; skill scanning is billed from January 2027.Source 96 Agent Runtime costs $0.085 per vCPU-hour and $0.009 per GiB-hour, with a monthly free tier.Source 97 Agent Gateway egress costs $0.085 per 15,000 requests.Source 97 Google says new customers get up to $300 in free credits.Source 2
Can Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform manage agents that run outside Google Cloud?
Agents hosted outside Google Cloud can be listed in Agent Registry by manual registration.Source 98 Google lists Agent Identity support for Agent Runtime, the Gemini Enterprise app, and Cloud Run, and Agent Gateway can govern traffic for agents on Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 5, Source 6
How does Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform relate to the Gemini Enterprise app?
Google says Agent Platform is Google Cloud’s platform for developers to build, scale, govern, and optimize agents.Source 2 Agents in Agent Registry can be made available to end users of Google’s separate Gemini Enterprise app.Source 73 Agent Gateway governs only outbound traffic for agents in the app.Source 5
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Source 2: Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) Back:abc
Source 7: Overview - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore (Developer Guide) Back:ab
Source 8: Provide identity and credential management for agent applications with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity Back to text
Source 9: AWS Agent Registry: Discover and manage agents, tools, and resources Back to text
Source 10: HTTP passthrough targets - AgentCore Gateway Back to text
Source 11: Sharing a registry across accounts with AWS RAM Back:ab
Source 19: AI Agent Builder | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Back to text
Source 20: Welcome to IBM watsonx Orchestrate Agent Development Kit Back to text
Source 22: AI Agent Control Plane | IBM watsonx Orchestrate Back to text
Source 26: Regional availability and outbound IP addresses Back to text
Source 27: Prerequisites for configuring agent identity Back to text
Source 33: LangSmith: The Agent Engineering Platform Back to text
Source 42: Why Blocks? Back:ab
Source 47: Pricing Back:ab
Source 49: Agent 365 SDK frequently asked questions | Microsoft Learn Back:ab
Source 50: Microsoft Agent 365 SDK overview | Microsoft Learn Back:ab
Source 51: Agent 365 identity | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 52: Agent Registry in Microsoft 365 admin center - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn Back:ab
Source 53: Bring your own (BYO) MCP server in Microsoft 365 admin center - Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 54: Microsoft Agent 365 - Service Descriptions | Microsoft Learn Back to text
Source 58: Adding a Scanner for Google Gemini Agent Enterprise Platform Back to text
Source 59: What's new in AI Gateway v3.4 - September 2026 release (ServiceNow Community, AI Control Tower articles) Back to text
Source 60: AI Control Tower - ServiceNow (product page) Back:ab
Source 61: AI Gateway Implementation Guide (ServiceNow Community, AI Control Tower articles) Back to text
Source 62: Add a Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform connection (ServiceNow product documentation, Australia release) Back to text
Source 63: Concept: Agent Security (Workday Administrator Guide) Back:ab
Source 64: About Workday Agents (Workday Administrator Guide) Back:abc
Source 65: Concept: Workday Agent Gateway (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 66: Set Up Agent System of Record (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 67: Setup Considerations: Agent Security (Workday Administrator Guide) Back to text
Source 68: MCP server portals · Cloudflare One docs Back:abc
Source 74: Add AI agents manually (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 77: Okta brings first-class identity to AI agents with Agent SSO Back to text
Source 78: Okta announces new innovations to secure AI agents at runtime and automate ongoing agent governance Back to text
Source 79: Apps that support AI agent imports (Okta Help Center) Back to text
Source 80: AI Observability | See Every Agent, Know What it Touches | Zenity Back to text
Source 83: Platform | AI Agent Security & Governance Platform | Zenity Back to text
Source 84: Zenity's Coverage of the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for LLM Apps Back to text
Source 86: langchain-ai/langgraph README (GitHub) Back to text
Source 87: Integrating with Model Context Protocol (MCP) - Keycloak Back to text
Source 89: Designing MCP Gateway Uber's MCP Management Platform - Uber Blog Back:ab
Source 91: Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Specification Back to text
Source 92: Authorization - Model Context Protocol specification 2026-07-28 Back to text
Source 93: Building an MCP Ecosystem at Pinterest - Pinterest Engineering Blog Back to text