a2a cloud
a2a cloud vs Relevance AI

Relevance AI alternative for teams who want to own the agent

Relevance AI is a genuinely polished no-code platform for building an AI workforce — business users can stand up multi-agent automations in a visual builder without engineering. a2a cloud takes the opposite bet: you own real code in a git repo, running on a governed runtime that can prove what it did.

What you shipFrameworkDatabaseMCP + APIAuthorityProof
honest take

Where Relevance AI is genuinely strong — and where a2a cloud is different.

Relevance AI is good at

No-code AI teams, without engineering

Relevance AI is very good at what it set out to do: let non-engineers assemble an AI workforce visually. The builder is clean, the building blocks compose well, and a business user can wire up multi-agent automations — sub-agents, tools, and workflows — without writing or deploying code. For teams that want speed and don't want to own infrastructure, that convenience is real and worth crediting.

a2a cloud adds

Infrastructure you own — and can prove

a2a cloud is for teams who want to own what they ship. Instead of a visual builder, you get real code in a git repo you keep, running on a governed runtime: a managed Postgres per agent, an automatic MCP server, a REST/invoke and A2A API, and scoped grants instead of stored connections. You deploy your own framework code — LangGraph, CrewAI, custom — and every run emits an Ed25519-signed receipt you can verify outside the platform. No-code convenience versus infrastructure you own and can prove.

side-by-side

a2a cloud vs Relevance AI, dimension by dimension.

A fair comparison. Both columns are accurate as we understand the products today — the difference is what the runtime owns by default.

dimension
Relevance AI
a2a cloud
What you ship
Agents live inside a polished visual builder. You configure and compose them in the platform; the logic stays in Relevance AI's canvas.
Real code in a git repo you keep. The agent is your source, versioned and portable — not a diagram locked to one vendor.
Framework
Assemble multi-agent workflows from the platform's building blocks — tools, sub-agents, and steps designed for no-code composition.
Bring your own framework — LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, or custom Python. Deploy the code you already wrote.
Database
State and data are managed for you inside the platform. Great for getting going; harder to own or export as your own store.
A managed Postgres ships with every agent — yours to query, migrate, and back up. No provisioning, no connection glue.
MCP + API
Rich no-code integrations and a hosted API surface, wired through the platform's connectors.
Every agent auto-exposes an MCP server (Claude Code, Cursor, any client) plus a REST/invoke and A2A protocol surface.
Authority
Stored connections and credentials held in the workspace, reused across your AI team.
Scoped grants — audience-bound, time-limited, glob-filtered. No ambient production access sitting in a shared workspace.
Proof
Dashboard run history and logs let you inspect what your agents did inside the platform.
An Ed25519-signed, tamper-evident receipt for every run — replayable and verifiable outside the platform that produced it.
how to choose

Pick the tool that matches the job.

Reach for Relevance AI when

  • Business users need to assemble an AI workforce visually, with no engineering in the loop.
  • Speed to a working multi-agent automation matters more than owning the underlying code or data.
  • You're happy for the agents, state, and integrations to live inside a managed no-code platform.

Reach for a2a cloud when

  • You want to own the agent as real code in a git repo, running your own framework — LangGraph, CrewAI, or custom.
  • You need a governed runtime — managed Postgres, MCP server, API, and scoped grants instead of stored connections.
  • You need a signed, replayable receipt for every run to prove what the agent did, independent of the platform.
don't trust the agent

Trust the receipt.

a2a cloud deploys any agent — LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, CrewAI, or custom — and ships it with a managed Postgres database, an MCP server, an API, a frontend, and an Ed25519-signed receipt for every run. Scoped grants, no ambient production access. One deploy, the whole agent app, with proof.