Alternatives to IBM watsonx Orchestrate

Where it sits⁠^{Source 9, Source 10, Source 11, Source 12, Source 13}

1. 01Build agents: Offered, Harness managed agent loop
2. 02Host and run agents: Offered, AgentCore Runtime
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, AgentCore Identity workload identities
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, AWS Agent Registry with approvals
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, AgentCore Gateway
6. 06Agents across organizations: Offered, Registry shared through AWS RAM

Where it sits⁠^{Source 16, Source 17, Source 18, Source 19, Source 20, Source 21}

1. 01Build agents: Offered, Crew Studio visual editor
2. 02Host and run agents: Offered, Managed infrastructure for crews
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Per-deployment allow lists
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Repositories
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Custom MCP server connections
6. 06Agents across organizations: Preview, Public A2A agents

Where it sits⁠^{Source 24, Source 25, Source 26, Source 27}

1. 01Build agents: Offered, Agent Studio low-code canvas
2. 02Host and run agents: Offered, Agent Runtime
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, SPIFFE-based Agent Identity
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Agent Gateway
6. 06Agents across organizations: Offered, Gateway calls to outside agents

Where it sits⁠^{Source 31, Source 32, Source 33, Source 34, Source 35}

1. 01Build agents: Offered, Fleet agent builder
2. 02Host and run agents: Offered, LangSmith Deployment runtime
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Fleet per-agent permissions
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Centralized registry in Deployment
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Fleet forwards MCP tool calls
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 38, Source 39, Source 40, Source 41}

1. 01Build agents: Offered, LangChain-based AI Agent node
2. 02Host and run agents: Offered, Your infrastructure or n8n’s
3. 03Identity and access: Not publicly documented
4. 04Registry and governance: Preview, Agents stored in projects
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, MCP client for external tools
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 45, Source 46, Source 47, Source 48, Source 49}

1. 01Build agents: Not included, Use LangChain or CrewAI
2. 02Host and run agents: Not included, You run your agent
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Machine identity per agent
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Private registry and Admin Console
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Private network for every agent
6. 06Agents across organizations: Offered, Partners share only chosen agents

Where it sits⁠^{Source 52, Source 53, Source 54, Source 55, Source 56}

1. 01Build agents: Not included, Use your chosen framework
2. 02Host and run agents: Not included, You host your agent
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Entra Agent ID
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Agent registry in admin center
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Preview, Tooling Gateway for MCP servers
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 59}

1. 01Build agents: Offered, Agent brokers in Agent Script
2. 02Host and run agents: Offered, Agent brokers on CloudHub 2.0
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Omni Gateway authentication and authorization
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry in Anypoint Exchange
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Omni Gateway in request path
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 61, Source 62, Source 63}

1. 01Build agents: Not publicly documented
2. 02Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Scoped OAuth tokens (community docs)
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, AI inventory tied to CMDB
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, AI Gateway (community docs)
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 65, Source 66, Source 67}

1. 01Build agents: Not publicly documented
2. 02Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Agent System User per agent
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Agent Registry in Management Hub
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Agent Gateway for Workday APIs
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 70}

1. 01Build agents: Not publicly documented
2. 02Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Identity provider or service token
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Centrally managed MCP servers
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Proxy for MCP tool calls
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 72, Source 73, Source 74}

1. 01Build agents: Not publicly documented
2. 02Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Per-agent allow or deny lists
4. 04Registry and governance: Preview, Konnect Catalog agents
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Gateway for LLM, MCP, A2A
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 76, Source 77, Source 78}

1. 01Build agents: Not publicly documented
2. 02Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
3. 03Identity and access: Offered, Agent identity and credentials
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, Universal Directory with human owners
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Preview, Agent Gateway for MCP tools
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

Where it sits⁠^{Source 81, Source 82}

1. 01Build agents: Not publicly documented
2. 02Host and run agents: Not publicly documented
3. 03Identity and access: Not publicly documented
4. 04Registry and governance: Offered, AI Observability agent inventory
5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, Tool-call blocking for coding agents
6. 06Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented