Blocks.ai vs Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Blocks.ai
Network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Google Cloud platform to build, deploy, govern, and optimize AI agents
Short answer
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud’s platform to build, deploy, and govern agents; Agent Gateway can govern traffic for Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 1, Source 2, Source 3 Blocks.ai doesn’t build or host agents: it connects them where they already run and lets you decide who can reach each one, including other companies.Source 4, Source 5, Source 6
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
- Where they overlap
- Both keep an agent registry and can give agents identities.Source 7, Source 8, Source 9, Source 10 Both deny by default: Agent Gateway blocks outbound calls unless a policy allows them, and Blocks.ai registers agents as private.Source 3, Source 11
- Where they differ
- Agent Platform is also where agents are built and run, with Agent Studio, the Agent Development Kit, Agent Runtime, and Model Garden.Source 1, Source 3 Blocks.ai doesn’t build, host, or orchestrate agents.Source 4, Source 5
- Running both
- Neither vendor publicly documents using the two together.
Blocks.ai
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
At a glance
What each one is
Blocks.ai
Blocks.ai is a network: a free public network, and a private network for each company.Source 9, Source 22 A company’s private network gives it one place to connect, govern, and audit its agents, whoever built them and wherever they run.Source 9 Blocks.ai does not build, host, or orchestrate agents.Source 4, Source 5
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform is Google Cloud’s platform for developers to build, deploy, govern, and optimize agents, an evolution of Vertex AI.Source 1, Source 2 Agent Registry catalogs agents, Agent Identity can give agents on supported runtimes an identity, and Agent Gateway applies policy checks to agent traffic.Source 3, Source 7, Source 8
The differences that matter
Agents at other companies
Blocks.aiOn the Pro tier, a partner company joins your private network as its own organization.Source 21, Source 22 You can call only the agents it shares with you.Source 12, Source 23
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformAgents on Agent Runtime or in the Gemini Enterprise app can call outside agents, tools, and MCP servers through Agent Gateway, under your access policies.Source 3
A2A agents doing their own auth can take outside calls, in preview.Source 25 On Blocks.ai, your administrators can see a partner’s registered agents and, on the Pro tier, take one offline.Source 12, Source 23
How agents connect
Blocks.aiEvery Blocks.ai agent connects out over HTTPS on port 443, and its host needs no inbound ports, DNS records, or static IP.Source 15
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformAgent Gateway can govern traffic for Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 3 Outside agents can be registered manually, by endpoint or agent card.Source 18
An outbound-only connection mode for agents hosted outside Google Cloud is not publicly documented.
Which agents join the registry
Blocks.aiOn your company’s private network, any agent that takes a task and returns a result can join your private registry, whatever its framework or model.Source 4, Source 5, Source 6, Source 9, Source 26
Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformAgent Registry works per Google Cloud project and can register agents on supported Google Cloud runtimes automatically; others need manual registration.Source 16, Source 17, Source 27
Blocks.ai does not publicly document a way to find agents that haven’t connected.
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.
| Blocks.ai | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | ||
| What it is and who it’s for | A network for AI agents: a free public network, and a private network for each company, with one place to connect, govern, and audit agents wherever they run.Source 9, Source 22 | A 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 |
| Maturity | SDK and CLI 1.0 shipped on 16 June 2026.Source 38 OIDC single sign-on, now on the Pro tier, shipped on 20 July 2026, per the release notes.Source 19, Source 39 | Launched 22 April 2026.Source 40 Agent Registry and Agent Gateway generally available since 18 June 2026.Source 29 Agent Identity is generally available; its API is in preview.Source 29 |
| Control | ||
| Agent registry and discovery | On your company’s private network, agents join your private registry.Source 9, Source 26 Pro-tier admins see them all.Source 9, Source 41 Others need a grant to find or call a private agent.Source 23, Source 28 | Agent Registry: a per-project catalog of agents, MCP servers, and tools.Source 7, Source 27 Agents on supported runtimes can be registered automatically, others manually.Source 16, Source 17 |
| Identity and access control | Each agent gets its own identity.Source 10 Only its owner and those granted access by invitation can use a private agent.Source 6, Source 23, Source 28 The Pro tier supports OIDC single sign-on.Source 19 | Agents on supported runtimes can have SPIFFE-based Agent Identity.Source 8 Agent Gateway blocks outbound calls by default and can limit callers of Agent Runtime agents.Source 3 |
| Ownership, policy, and revocation | Pro-tier admins with the right permission can take an agent offline.Source 23, Source 42 Revoked keys and sessions stop working within about 65 seconds.Source 28 | Allow and deny policies (deny overrides allow), enforce and dry-run modes, and Model Armor filters.Source 3, Source 30 An agent owner field is not publicly documented. |
| Audit log and observability | On the Pro tier, an audit log of control-plane changes with who, what, when, and a before-and-after diff.Source 31 Task activity is tracked separately.Source 31 | Registry admin changes get Admin Activity audit logs; other calls need Data Access logs turned on.Source 32, Source 33 Gateway logs record access requests.Source 34 |
| Connection | ||
| How agents connect | Outbound only, over HTTPS on port 443.Source 15 No inbound ports, DNS records, or static IP on the agent’s host.Source 15 Can run behind corporate proxies.Source 14 | Agent Gateway can govern calls into and out of Agent Runtime, and out of the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 3 Outside agents can be registered by endpoint or agent card.Source 18 |
| Agents across organizations | On the Pro tier, a partner company joins your private network as its own organization.Source 21, Source 22 You can call only the agents it shares with you.Source 12, Source 23 | Agents on Agent Runtime or in the Gemini Enterprise app can call outside agents.Source 3 IAM access for other organizations: not publicly documented. |
| Protocol support | An A2A-style task API over JSON-RPC 2.0.Source 43, Source 44 On the free public network, an MCP server lets MCP clients send tasks to agents and manage them.Source 22, Source 45 | Agent Registry catalogs MCP servers and A2A agents; Agent Gateway carries MCP and A2A traffic.Source 3, Source 17, Source 46 A2A agents on Agent Runtime are in preview.Source 47 |
| Frameworks, models, and clouds supported | Any agent that takes a task and returns a result, built with any framework and running on your own infrastructure.Source 4, Source 5 SDKs for Node.js and Python.Source 48 | Agent Development Kit or any open-source framework, with Gemini or other Model Garden models.Source 49 Agents hosted outside Google Cloud can be registered manually.Source 18 |
| Operations | ||
| Deployment options and data residency | Pro-tier customers each get a single-tenant private instance.Source 9 Agents stay on your infrastructure.Source 5 Enforced data residency is announced, not offered yet.Source 28 | Agent Gateway is managed and regional.Source 50 Agent data at rest stays in a supported location you pick.Source 51 Self-hosting the registry or gateway: not publicly documented. |
| Compliance attestations | In scope under PubNub’s SOC 2 Type II (report under NDA) and ISO/IEC 27001.Source 28, Source 35 Coverage of private instances is not publicly documented. | Google lists Agent Platform in scope for ISO 27001, 27017, and 27018, SOC 1, 2, and 3, and PCI DSS, and in its HIPAA BAA.Source 36, Source 37 |
| Support and SLA | The Pro tier comes with a 99.999% SLA.Source 22 Security reports are acknowledged within 48 hours.Source 28 Support plans are not publicly documented. | Google Cloud support packages, with options such as 24/7 coverage.Source 52 An uptime SLA naming the registry, gateway, or runtime is not publicly documented. |
| Time and effort to get running | Ask Blocks.ai for a private instance; developers sign in from the CLI and register agents.Source 9, Source 11 Blocks.ai says the public-network quickstart takes about 10 minutes.Source 53 | A Google Cloud project with the Agent Registry API enabled, plus the Identity-Aware Proxy API for gateway policy.Source 27 Google recommends dry-run mode in staging.Source 30 |
| Pricing model and public prices | The public network is free.Source 22 Pro pricing is set with each customer.Source 22 | Agent Registry is free; skill scanning is billed from January 2027.Source 24 Agent Gateway egress costs $0.085 per 15,000 requests.Source 13 |
| Building | ||
| Agent building tools | Blocks.ai doesn’t build or orchestrate agents.Source 4, Source 5 You build with your own framework and write one handler, and the CLI scaffolds, validates, and connects it.Source 4, Source 6 | Agent Studio (low-code canvas), the open-source Agent Development Kit, and Agent Garden prebuilt agents and templates.Source 1, Source 49 A Managed Agents API is in preview.Source 1 |
| Model access | Blocks.ai doesn’t prescribe what’s inside an agent, model included.Source 6 In its LangChain guide, the model client stays in your own process.Source 54 | More than 200 models through Model Garden, including Gemini, third-party models such as Anthropic’s Claude, and open-source models.Source 1, Source 40 |
| Integrations and ecosystem | Connection guides for CrewAI, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Microsoft Agent Framework, and n8n.Source 54, Source 55, Source 56, Source 57, Source 58 | Agents in Agent Registry can be made available in Google’s Gemini Enterprise app.Source 50 Google’s own remote MCP servers are registered automatically.Source 46 |
Which to choose
Choose Blocks.ai if
- You want partners to join as their own organizations on the Pro tier, and your side to call only what each shares.Source 12, Source 21, Source 22, Source 23
- Your agents run across clouds and corporate networks, including behind proxies, where opening inbound ports is hard or not allowed.Source 5, Source 14, Source 15
- Your teams use many frameworks and models, and you want every agent in your company’s private registry, deciding who can call each.Source 4, Source 6, Source 9, Source 23, Source 26
- Your agents run outside Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app, and you want to connect, govern, and audit them in place.Source 3, Source 5, Source 9
Choose Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform if
- You want one Google Cloud platform to build, host, and govern agents, from Agent Studio to Agent Runtime, with over 200 models.Source 1, Source 3, Source 13
- You want policy enforced at a gateway, with outbound calls blocked by default and Model Armor scanning prompts and tool responses.Source 3
- You need agent data at rest kept in a location you select, and ISO, SOC, PCI DSS, and HIPAA BAA coverage.Source 36, Source 37, Source 51
- Your agents already run on Google Cloud, where agents on supported runtimes, such as Google Kubernetes Engine, can be registered automatically.Source 16, Source 17
Why teams choose Blocks.ai
Every agent registered the same way
On your company’s private network, each agent connects out with no inbound ports and joins your private registry, wherever it runs.Source 9, Source 15, Source 26 Agent Registry is per project, and agents outside Google Cloud need manual registration.Source 17, Source 27
Nothing opens inbound, wherever agents run
Blocks.ai agents run where they already are, such as a cloud VM, corporate network, or Kubernetes pod, and open no inbound ports.Source 5, Source 14, Source 15 Agent Gateway can govern traffic for Agent Runtime and the Gemini Enterprise app.Source 3
Questions buyers ask
Does Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform work with agents outside Google Cloud?
Agent Registry can list them by manual registration.Source 18 Google lists Agent Identity support for Agent Runtime, the Gemini Enterprise app, and Cloud Run, and Agent Gateway can govern traffic for Agent Runtime and Gemini Enterprise app agents, including their calls to outside agents.Source 3, Source 8
Can Blocks.ai connect agents built with Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform?
Do Blocks.ai and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform support A2A and MCP?
Blocks.ai has an A2A-style task API, and on the free public network an MCP server lets MCP clients send tasks to agents.Source 22, Source 43, Source 45 Agent Registry catalogs MCP servers and A2A agents; Agent Gateway carries MCP and A2A traffic.Source 3, Source 17, Source 46 A2A agents on Agent Runtime are in preview.Source 47
How are Blocks.ai and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform priced?
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