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Alternatives to Microsoft Agent 365

Microsoft Agent 365

Microsoft 365 control plane to discover, manage, govern, and secure AI agents

Summary

Microsoft Agent 365 is a Microsoft 365 service: a control plane to discover, manage, govern, and secure AI agents built and run elsewhere.⁠Source 1, Source 2, Source 3 It keeps an agent registry in the Microsoft 365 admin center and uses Microsoft Entra Agent ID for agent identities.⁠Source 4, Source 5

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Where Microsoft Agent 365 sits

Six layers of running AI agents at a company, and what Microsoft Agent 365’s own public sources say it covers. Each alternative below gets the same six layers as a strip.

Public sources · checked 2 October 2026
  • Offered
  • Preview
  • Not included
  • Not publicly documented

Microsoft Agent 365

  • Build agents: Not includedUse your chosen framework⁠Source 2
  • Host and run agents: Not includedYou host your agent⁠Source 3
  • Identity and access: OfferedEntra Agent ID⁠Source 5
  • Registry and governance: OfferedAgent registry in admin center⁠Source 4
  • Traffic between agents, tools, and models: PreviewTooling Gateway for MCP servers⁠Source 6
  • Agents across organizations: Not publicly documented

How to read the strips

  1. 01Build agents
  2. 02Host and run agents
  3. 03Identity and access
  4. 04Registry and governance
  5. 05Traffic between agents, tools, and models
  6. 06Agents across organizations
  • Offered
  • Preview
  • You build it
  • Not included
  • Not publicly documented

Agent control planes

4 alternatives

The group Microsoft Agent 365 sits in, so listed first.

  • Blocks.ai

    Network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company

    Where it sits⁠Source 7, Source 8, Source 9, Source 10, Source 11

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

    Blocks.ai doesn’t build or host agents.⁠Source 7, Source 8 On the Pro tier, partner companies can join as their own organizations.⁠Source 12, Source 13 In Agent 365, another company’s published agent can be added to your tenant.⁠Source 5, Source 14

    Blocks.ai vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • MuleSoft Agent Fabric

    Control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs across platforms

    Where it sits⁠Source 15

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

    A control plane for agents, MCP servers, and APIs that enforces policy at Omni Gateway, in each managed agent’s request path.⁠Source 15, Source 16 Agent 365 admins manage agents through its registry, Microsoft Entra, and Microsoft Purview.⁠Source 17

    Microsoft Agent 365 vs MuleSoft Agent Fabric

  • ServiceNow AI Control Tower

    What ServiceNow calls a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI

    Where it sits⁠Source 18, Source 19, Source 20

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

    ServiceNow describes it as a central hub to discover, secure, govern, observe, and measure AI.⁠Source 19 Agent 365 can discover managed agents an AI steward marks publishable, through a ServiceNow API.⁠Source 21

    Microsoft Agent 365 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 22, Source 23, Source 24

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

    A function inside each Workday tenant that registers and manages agents, each with a unique Workday identity; it needs no additional specific SKU.⁠Source 22, Source 23, Source 25 Agent 365 uses Entra Agent ID and licenses premium capabilities per user.⁠Source 5, Source 26

    Microsoft Agent 365 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 27

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

    A portal that puts several MCP servers behind one HTTP endpoint and lets admins choose which tools it exposes.⁠Source 27 Agent 365 keeps a registry of the agents themselves.⁠Source 4

    Cloudflare MCP server portals vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • Kong AI Gateway

    Gateway that governs LLM, MCP, and agent-to-agent traffic

    Where it sits⁠Source 28, Source 29, Source 30

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

    A gateway for LLM, MCP, and A2A traffic: in version 2.x, data plane nodes you run check that traffic against policy.⁠Source 31 Agent 365 admins use policy templates and Entra Conditional Access on agent identities.⁠Source 5, Source 32

    Kong AI Gateway vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • 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 33, Source 34, Source 35

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

    Okta says it gives AI agents a first-class identity.⁠Source 36 Okta can import agents built in Microsoft’s separate Copilot Studio and AI Foundry, given at least one Agent 365 license.⁠Source 37, Source 38

    Microsoft Agent 365 vs Okta for AI Agents

  • Zenity AI Agent Security & Governance Platform

    Security and governance platform for AI agents, aimed at security teams

    Where it sits⁠Source 39, Source 40

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

    A security and governance platform.⁠Source 41 Zenity says it inventories AI agents in Copilot Studio and Agentforce, and blocks actions inline on Copilot Studio and Microsoft Foundry.⁠Source 39, Source 42 It says its risk signals appear in Agent 365.⁠Source 43

    Microsoft Agent 365 vs Zenity

Platforms to build and run agents

6 alternatives

  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

    AWS platform for building, deploying, and operating AI agents

    Where it sits⁠Source 44, Source 45, Source 46, Source 47, Source 48

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

    AWS’s platform to build, deploy, and operate agents, with serverless AgentCore Runtime to host them; it is billed by use.⁠Source 44, Source 49 Agent 365’s registry sync, in preview, can list Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents.⁠Source 50

    Amazon Bedrock AgentCore vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • 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

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

    A platform to build CrewAI crews in code or Crew Studio and run them on managed infrastructure or, on Enterprise, your own VPC.⁠Source 52, Source 57 Microsoft names the CrewAI framework among those for Agent 365 SDK integration.⁠Source 58

    CrewAI AMP vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

    Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents

    Where it sits⁠Source 59, Source 60, Source 61, Source 62

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

    Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, and govern agents; its Agent Registry operates at the project level, and Agent Runtime is billed by use.⁠Source 59, Source 63, Source 64 Agent 365 has an organization-wide registry.⁠Source 4

    Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • IBM watsonx Orchestrate

    Agent management platform to build, deploy, orchestrate, and govern AI agents

    Where it sits⁠Source 65, Source 66, Source 67, Source 68, Source 69

    1. Build agents: Offered, Visual builder and ADK
    2. Host and run agents: Offered, Agents run on watsonx Orchestrate
    3. Identity and access: Preview, Agent identity
    4. Registry and governance: Offered, Agentic Control Plane
    5. Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, A2A calls to agent endpoints
    6. Agents across organizations: Offered, Partner A2A agents in catalog

    IBM calls it an agent management platform; it runs as SaaS or on premises, and its Essentials plan starts at $530 a month.⁠Source 70, Source 71, Source 72 Agent 365 licenses premium capabilities per user.⁠Source 26

    IBM watsonx Orchestrate vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • LangSmith

    Platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents

    Where it sits⁠Source 73, Source 74, Source 75, Source 76, Source 77

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

    LangChain describes it as a platform for observing, evaluating, and deploying agents.⁠Source 78 It can host agents on Plus or above.⁠Source 74 Microsoft names the LangChain framework among those for Agent 365 SDK integration.⁠Source 58

    LangSmith vs Microsoft Agent 365

  • n8n

    Platform for AI agents and workflows you can see and control, built visually or with code

    Where it sits⁠Source 79, Source 80, Source 81, Source 82

    1. Build agents: Offered, LangChain-based AI Agent node
    2. Host and run agents: Offered, Your infrastructure or n8n’s
    3. Identity and access: Not publicly documented
    4. Registry and governance: Preview, Agents stored in projects
    5. Traffic between agents, tools, and models: Offered, MCP client for external tools
    6. 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 80, Source 83 In an early preview, n8n can be the backend for Agent 365 agents.⁠Source 84

    Microsoft Agent 365 vs n8n

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

    1. Build agents: You build it, Open-source frameworks like ADK
    2. Host and run agents: You build it, Self-hosted, like LangGraph
    3. Identity and access: You build it, Your own identity provider
    4. Registry and governance: You build it, Your own agent registry
    5. Traffic between agents, tools, and models: You build it, Your gateway and service mesh
    6. Agents across organizations: You build it, A2A with API management

    Your team builds its own registry and access controls on openly licensed protocols such as A2A and MCP, which leave authorization to the implementer.⁠Source 88, Source 91, Source 92, Source 93 Agent 365 provides both as a Microsoft 365 service.⁠Source 1, Source 4, Source 94

    DIY vs Microsoft Agent 365

Questions buyers ask

Does Microsoft Agent 365 keep a registry of every agent?

It keeps one registry in the Microsoft 365 admin center for Microsoft and non-Microsoft agents, including agents without an Entra agent identity.⁠Source 4, Source 95 Agents built outside Microsoft 365 channels and Entra Agent ID need extra steps, and registry sync from other platforms is in preview.⁠Source 58, Source 96

How is Microsoft Agent 365 priced?

Per user, not per agent: the list price is $15 per user per month standalone, paid yearly, or it comes in Microsoft 365 E7.⁠Source 26, Source 96 Microsoft Cloud subscribers get foundational capabilities at no extra cost; premium capabilities need an Agent 365 license.⁠Source 26

Can Microsoft Agent 365 manage agents built elsewhere?

Yes: Microsoft says it works with agents built or acquired from third parties.⁠Source 1 Its SDK connects agents built with frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex and hosted on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, or on premises; premium capabilities may vary by platform.⁠Source 2, Source 3, Source 26, Source 58

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