---
name: Stacklok
domain: stacklok.com
kind: product
relation: substitute
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.74
---

# Stacklok

An enterprise MCP platform that extends Kubernetes into a runtime for running, governing, and connecting AI agents to MCP servers.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → substitute to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** A buyer choosing Stacklok’s managed MCP platform would not need Vercel’s AI SDK or AI Gateway for the same agent-to-tool orchestration; Stacklok replaces that layer with a Kubernetes-native runtime.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Stacklok extends your Kubernetes cluster into a first-class MCP runtime

> Deploy, run and manage MCP servers in a Kubernetes cluster with security guardrails

> Provide a single endpoint to safely and efficiently access all your tools

**Edges:**

- competitor [[mcpservers-com]]
